Environment For The Americas, Inc.

Environment For The Americas, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, delivers youth conservation internships, environmental education programming, and migratory species conservation support to federal land-management agencies as a prime grant recipient. The organization holds no federal contracts and operates exclusively through federal cooperative agreements and grants, predominantly under the Department of the Interior's National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service youth-and-veteran-serving conservation programs.

EFTA's capability footprint centers on recruiting, placing, and managing diverse youth and early-career interns in natural resource management, environmental education, and conservation biology roles across federal lands. The organization's service model includes payroll administration, mentorship coordination, professional development webinars, and ongoing career counseling extending beyond internship terms. Recent representative work spans the National Park Service Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), where EFTA has placed interns for vegetation monitoring and invasive plant control at Golden Gate National Recreation Area ($555,848 cooperative agreement, August 2025), led the Latino Heritage Internship Program engaging undergraduate and graduate students across multiple national park units ($622,749 cooperative agreement, July 2025), and conducted hummingbird and pollinator conservation field research in California and the Sonoran Desert region. EFTA also received a $114,000 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (September 2025, CFDA 10.684) to coordinate World Migratory Bird Day events, support hummingbird conservation in California, and administer small grants to expand local conservation projects nationwide. The organization's international work includes a $186,381 Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act grant from the Fish and Wildlife Service to dim lights in Panama City for bird conservation (June 2024, CFDA 15.635).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Department of the Interior land-management bureaus, accounting for 62% of awards by count. The top five customer agencies include the National Park Service National Office (19 awards, though combined potential value is just $7 thousand, indicating modest individual award sizes), the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters (18 awards, $221 thousand combined potential value), the National Park Service Intermountain Region (9 awards), the National Park Service Pacific West Region, and the U.S. Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (9 awards). The potential-value rankings diverge sharply from volume: the Bureau of Land Management National Office anchors $19.1 million across just 8 awards, reflecting larger grant awards supporting multi-year conservation initiatives, while the high-volume NPS programs carry smaller per-award values. EFTA places task orders under two blanket purchase agreements with the Forest Service ($86 thousand across three orders under BPA 140L0119A0015 and $49 thousand across two orders under BPA INL17PA00018).

Activity has grown consistently over the past five years — four awards in 2022 to thirteen in 2025 — with sixteen awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing a moderate recompete cliff. EFTA holds accreditation from the National Park Service for career-focused internship operations and has recruited more than three hundred diverse youth to work on federal lands. The organization operates as a 98% prime recipient, with minimal subcontract engagement: two recent sub-awards route through the National Forest Foundation (Tribal youth stewardship on national forests, May 2025) and the Monarch Joint Venture (DoD installation monarch monitoring, January 2025). Primary NAICS codes reflect the grant work: Educational Support Services (10 awards), Human Resources Consulting Services (7 awards), and Environmental Consulting Services (3 awards) dominate the portfolio, alongside secondary codes in professional and technical services.