Preservation Craft Training | P17AS00492

Opportunity Information: Apply for P17AS00492

The Preservation Craft Training opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number P17AS00492) is a discretionary National Park Service program under the U.S. Department of the Interior that uses a cooperative agreement to support hands-on education and workforce development tied directly to the preservation of cultural resources on public lands. The central idea is to pair real restoration and rehabilitation work with structured training so that young adults gain practical skills while contributing to projects that protect historic and cultural sites for long-term public use. The funding activity category is education, and it is associated with CFDA 15.954.

This project is framed as an internship-style program run in collaboration with a partner organization, described as the "CL Internship Program." Its purpose is to introduce young adults to environmental stewardship and conservation work in a carefully supervised setting. Rather than focusing only on classroom instruction, the program emphasizes field-based learning where participants develop preservation craft skills by working on tangible cultural resource projects. In doing so, it aims to stimulate productive work, promote training and educational opportunities, and build early-career exposure to conservation and preservation professions.

The work supported through this agreement is specifically intended to serve public lands, with the long-term goal of ensuring these resources can be utilized and enjoyed by both current visitors and future generations. In practice, this implies that funded activities would be closely tied to National Park Service preservation priorities and would likely involve on-site rehabilitation and restoration tasks that align with cultural resource protection standards, carried out with oversight to ensure quality, safety, and learning outcomes for participants.

In terms of funding structure, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of $99,120 and anticipates a single award. The instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which typically means the agency expects to be substantially involved in the project’s direction, coordination, or oversight rather than acting solely as a pass-through funder. Eligibility is broadly labeled as "Others," with the key detail clarified in the notice that the National Park Service intended to partner with Conservation Legacy under an existing cooperative agreement (P15AC00024).

Finally, this posting is not an open competition. The original closing date entry makes clear it is a notice of intent to partner under an existing agreement and that no applications will be accepted. In other words, it functions as a public announcement documenting a planned, non-competitive continuation or extension of partnership funding rather than a solicitation inviting new applicants.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Preservation Craft Training" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.954.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 12, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Notice of intent to partner with Conservation Legacy under existing Cooperative Agreement P15AC00024 without additional competition. No applications will be accepted.. (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 $99,120.00 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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