Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS NOIP18AS00200
The grant opportunity, titled Provide for Residential Environmental Education for Middle School (Funding Opportunity Number NPS NOIP18AS00200), is a National Park Service (NPS) discretionary funding announcement offered through a Cooperative Agreement. Its main goal is to give more than 1,500 students and their teachers a three-day, overnight learning experience inside a national park during the school week, running in both the fall and spring seasons. The program is positioned as a high-impact youth engagement effort that is designed and delivered in partnership with Prince William Forest Park, helping address staffing, capacity, and program-delivery limits that the NPS may face on its own.
The project centers on providing curriculum-based, multi-day environmental science education programs for students in grades 4 through 12 at Prince William Forest Park. A key operational requirement is maintaining an instructor-to-student ratio of about 1 instructor for every 15 students, which signals an emphasis on small-group instruction, safety, and hands-on learning. The selected partner is expected to handle the full educator pipeline, including recruiting, selecting, hiring, training, and managing environmental educators who are skilled in education and interpretive techniques suited to outdoor and park-based learning. In addition, the educators must have appropriate medical and safety qualifications, specifically Wilderness First Responder certification or at least First Aid certification, reflecting the realities of supervising students in outdoor field settings and during overnight stays.
From a content standpoint, the program focuses on the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the Mid-Atlantic region. The educational topics explicitly include geology as well as plant, creek, forest, and animal ecology, suggesting a broad, systems-based approach that connects landscapes, water resources, habitats, and wildlife. The experience is meant to be more than a day trip; it is structured as an immersive residential program where students live in the park setting and learn through field-based lessons and guided exploration aligned with environmental science learning objectives. To reduce barriers to participation and ensure students can fully engage, the program also allows for providing necessary program-related equipment to participants when appropriate.
The opportunity also indicates that learning may extend beyond the three days in the park through optional pre- and post-trip classroom visits. These visits can help teachers and students prepare for the field experience, connect it to classroom instruction, and reinforce learning outcomes after returning to school. Overall, the grant supports a complete program model: planning and delivering residential environmental education, staffing and training qualified educators, implementing a structured watershed-focused curriculum, and supporting participating students with equipment and potentially classroom-based follow-up.
Eligibility is limited to nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The funding comes from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and is associated with CFDA number 15.406. The award ceiling listed is $85,000, with an expectation of one award being made. The opportunity was created on May 2, 2018, with an original closing date of May 12, 2018, indicating a short application window typical of some targeted cooperative agreements where the NPS anticipates working closely with a partner to carry out defined program activities.Apply for NPS NOIP18AS00200
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Provide for Residential Environmental Education for Middle School" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.406.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 02, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 12, 2018. (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 $85,000.00 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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