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Opportunity Summary:

The Golden Gate Parks BioBlitz (Funding Opportunity Number P14AS00021) is a National Park Service (NPS), Department of the Interior discretionary funding action structured as a cooperative agreement to support planning and implementing the 2014 Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz. The event is part of a larger National Geographic and NPS collaboration running through the years leading up to the National Park Service Centennial in 2016, with a BioBlitz hosted each year at a different urban national park. For this award, the BioBlitz was scheduled for March 28 to 29, 2014, and was designed as an intensive 24-hour biodiversity survey and public engagement event.

A BioBlitz is essentially a rapid biological inventory carried out over a short, fixed period of time. During the 24-hour window, teams made up of volunteer scientists and a broad mix of community participants (including families, students, and teachers) work together to locate, observe, and identify as many species as possible across many groups of life, such as plants, animals, fungi, and microbes. The opportunity emphasizes both the scientific value of documenting biodiversity in a major urban park setting and the educational value of bringing the public into direct contact with working scientists and real field methods.

The project goals focus on three main outcomes: discovering and documenting the park’s biodiversity, creating hands-on opportunities for students and the general public to interact with scientists, and strengthening public understanding of the “extraordinary biodiversity” present in the Golden Gate National Parks. In practice, this kind of event typically blends organized field surveys with structured public programs, interpretation, and science communication so that participants not only help collect observations but also learn how species are found, identified, and recorded.

Financially, the opportunity listed an estimated total funding amount of $103,000, with an award ceiling of $103,000 and an award floor of $1, and it anticipated making a single award. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement. The funding activity category is Education, with an emphasis on Natural Resources, and the CFDA listing provided is 15.944 (Natural Resource Stewardship).

Eligibility was limited to nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). However, an important feature of this posting is that it was not an open, competitive solicitation. The announcement explicitly states it is not a request for applications; instead, it served as public notice of NPS’s intent to fund the described project without competition under an existing cooperative agreement. The posting date and creation date were January 22, 2014, with an original and current closing date of January 30, 2014, and an archive date of February 22, 2014.

The description explains that the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (GGNPC), as the nonprofit support partner for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), was considered uniquely qualified to carry out the work. The rationale given is that GGNPC regularly helps plan and host similar park events, its staff already had significant involvement in early planning for this BioBlitz, and they bring established experience with event management and science communications, along with familiarity with NPS policies and procedures. The cooperative agreement structure reflects a collaborative approach where the partner’s operational capacity and communications expertise are integral to delivering a complex, high-participation science and education event efficiently.

For reference, the agency listed is the National Park Service, and the contact provided for access issues was Kristina Bliss (805-370-2321, kristinabliss@nps.gov). The additional information link referenced was Grants.gov.

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