National Council Pres Eductn

National Council Pres Eductn, a non-profit organization headquartered in Ithaca, New York, is a federal grant recipient that recruits, trains, and manages undergraduate and graduate student interns to perform cultural resource preservation, archival work, and museum collections management at National Park Service sites and Department of Interior facilities. The organization operates as a grant recipient under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), with a footprint entirely composed of cooperative agreements issued by the National Park Service.

NCPE's core capability centers on placing qualified interns at NPS park units, regional offices, and federal facilities to deliver hands-on work in archaeology, archival processing, museum curation, historic structure documentation, and cultural landscape preservation. Representative work includes a $292,363.75 cooperative agreement (awarded August 2025) to place interns across four Florida NPS sites—Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Fort Caroline National Memorial, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, and Fort Matanzas National Monument—to catalog over 40,000 archaeological artifacts, conserve more than 7,000 metal artifacts, and support museum staff through December 2027. A $277,916.25 agreement (September 2025) funds interns to rehoused, catalog, and digitize archival materials and historical photographs from South Florida NPS units through December 2026. A $489,451.43 agreement (January 2025) provides internship services across multiple park sites in museum management, including collection surveying, pest management, and compliance documentation. Work spans archaeology, anthropology, cultural landscapes, historic structures, oral history documentation, and interpretation across individual parks and multi-site regional programs.

Customer concentration is extremely high and narrow. The Department of the Interior's National Park Service accounts for 94% of awards tracked in the source. The NPS National Office and its direct divisions (161 awards to the broader NPS system, 149 to the NPS National Office specifically) dominate the portfolio, with additional regional offices including the Northeast Region (22 awards), Pacific West Region (19 awards), and Southeast Region (12 awards) placing smaller volumes of work. NCPE has worked with nine distinct federal agencies, but the NPS represents the overwhelming majority of funding and transactional activity. There is no vehicle or parent contract structure; NCPE competes and receives direct cooperative agreements annually from the NPS under the single federal grant program.

NCPE's activity has averaged roughly 17–34 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2024 peak at 30 awards; 2025 dropped to 12; only one award in 2026 as of February). The organization has accumulated $30.1 million in combined obligated dollars across 385 total awards since 2008, indicating modest but consistent scale. Thirty-two awards are set to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing the organization's recompete exposure in the near term—all are cooperative agreements with the NPS that will require re-award or amendment to continue operations at those park sites.

NCPE operates entirely as a grant recipient, not a contractor. It receives no federal contracts, holds no parent contract vehicles, and does not subcontract. Its business model is to serve as an intermediary between the NPS and the academic labor market, sourcing and placing interns to fill preservation and curation staffing gaps across park units. The organization does not compete in full-and-open federal contracting and carries no set-aside designations; its entire footprint is rooted in a single youth-service-focused cooperative agreement grant program.