Engage Career Ready Intern in Conservation Education Work | NPS 17 NERO 0078

Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS 17 NERO 0078

The funding opportunity titled "Engage Career Ready Intern in Conservation Education Work" (Funding Opportunity Number: NPS 17 NERO 0078) is a National Park Service notice announcing the agency's intent to make an award, rather than an open call for proposals. It is issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and falls under the discretionary funding category. The planned award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, and the activity focus is tied to employment, labor, and training, indicating that the primary purpose is to support a career-ready internship connected to conservation education work.

A key point of this notice is that it is explicitly not a request for applications. In practical terms, that means the National Park Service is not soliciting new proposals from the general public under this announcement. Instead, the notice is serving as a public transparency requirement to inform stakeholders that NPS intends to award a task agreement under an existing master cooperative agreement that was either previously competed or supported by a single-source justification. This structure typically indicates that the agency has an established partner relationship vehicle already in place and is using it to issue a specific, scoped task agreement for the internship-related work.

The opportunity is associated with CFDA number 15.931, which corresponds to National Park Service-related assistance listings. The eligible applicant category is listed broadly as "Others," with a note that further clarification would normally be found in an "Additional Information on Eligibility" section (not included in the provided text). In these kinds of announcements, that wording often reflects that eligibility is effectively limited to entities already covered under the relevant master cooperative agreement, rather than open eligibility for any organization.

From a funding and scale perspective, the announcement lists an award ceiling of $31,025 and anticipates a single award. That suggests a small, targeted project budget consistent with supporting one intern position and its associated project costs (such as stipend support, training, travel, materials, or supervision costs), though the notice itself does not break down how funds would be allocated. The posting was created on June 25, 2017, with an original closing date of July 5, 2017. In the context of an intent-to-award notice, the closing date generally functions more as the end of the public notice period rather than a deadline to submit applications.

Overall, this announcement is best understood as an administrative notice that the National Park Service planned to fund a specific, internship-centered conservation education effort through a cooperative agreement task order, using an already-established cooperative agreement vehicle, with a maximum funding amount of $31,025 and one expected recipient.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Engage Career Ready Intern in Conservation Education Work" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.931.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 25, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 05, 2017. (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 $31,025.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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