Opportunity Information: Apply for P18AS00561
The HOPE Crew Project at National Capital Parks-East is a National Park Service initiative designed to pair hands-on youth workforce development with needed preservation work in historically significant park landscapes. Through this project, six youth interns will receive practical field experience doing tasks such as pruning, planting, vegetation management, species identification, and basic historic preservation activities. The work is framed as a cultural landscape management effort, meaning the interns will learn how maintaining vegetation, caring for historic features, and managing natural resources all connect to the long-term protection of culturally important places.
A central purpose of the project is to improve the condition of historic structures and cultural landscapes tracked in the National Park Service Facility Management Software System (FMSS). A prior Cultural Landscape FMSS crosswalk conducted in summer 2017 by partners including WASO, NCR, and the park identified deferred vegetation management and overdue pruning as major deficiencies affecting these cultural resources. This project is meant to directly address those backlogged needs, helping the park make measurable progress on correcting deficiencies that were already documented, while ensuring the work is done in a way that aligns with preservation goals rather than routine groundskeeping alone.
The opportunity is issued by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and is categorized as a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement structure, with an activity category focused on employment, labor, and training (CFDA 15.946). The anticipated award amount is up to $41,600, with one expected award. Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). However, the announcement makes clear that it is not a request for applications; instead, it serves as public notice that the NPS intends to award a task agreement under an existing, already-competed cooperative agreement (P14AC00754) with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The posting dates reflect an administrative window (created August 21, 2018, original closing date August 31, 2018), but the practical takeaway is that the award is a planned continuation or task under a pre-established partnership rather than an open competitive solicitation.
Overall, the HOPE Crew Project combines youth engagement and job-skill development with tangible preservation outcomes for National Capital Parks-East. It is structured to improve documented FMSS deficiencies related to vegetation and landscape condition while also creating meaningful connections between park staff, young participants, and the historic sites they help care for.Apply for P18AS00561
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "HOPE Crew Project at National Capital Parks-East" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.946.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 21, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 31, 2018 This announcement is NOT a request for applications. It is notification that NPS will award a task agreement under already competed Cooperative Agreement Number P14AC00754 with National Trust for Historic Preservation.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $41,600.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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