Notice of Intent: Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative (IIC) Youth Partnership Project 2016 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

Notice of Intent: Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative (IIC) Youth Partnership Project 2016 (Funding Opportunity Number P16AS00616) is a National Park Service (Department of the Interior) discretionary funding opportunity intended to support a cooperative, work-based internship and service-learning program in Southern Utah. The central purpose is to connect land-management agency needs with college students, academic departments, and recent graduates who are looking for practical, meaningful educational and career-building experiences tied to public lands stewardship.

The opportunity is structured as a Cooperative Agreement, which generally signals that the federal agency expects to be substantially involved in the project rather than simply issuing a pass-through grant. The funded work focuses on building professionalism in land stewardship while creating hands-on opportunities to conserve and protect cultural and natural resources and, at the same time, help parks and public lands sites serve visitors and local communities. In practical terms, participants can be placed into a range of roles typically needed across park and resource-management operations, including interpretation and visitor services, natural and cultural resource work, fee collection, research support, trail building and maintenance, information technology support, and administrative functions. Interns and youth corps participants are also described as being mentored by park staff, emphasizing supervised, educational placements rather than short-term labor alone.

A major theme of the notice is the established partnership model behind the IIC. The IIC began in 2007 under an NPS Challenge Cost Share Grant and has continued implementing internships and youth conservation corps projects through a series of task agreements. The partnership network described is broad and intergovernmental, involving multiple National Park Service units and other public land and workforce partners. Examples named include Cedar Breaks, Bryce Canyon, Pipe Springs, Grand Canyon-Parashant, Great Basin, and Zion; regional Bureau of Land Management offices; the Dixie and Fishlake National Forests; the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians; Utah State Parks; Dixie State University; and the Utah Division of Workforce Services. The notice highlights outcomes to demonstrate capacity and track record, stating that the partnership has hosted 1,296 interns overall, with 424 placed specifically in park units, and that multiple NPS task agreements have been completed since 2011 as evidence of sustained collaboration.

From an administrative standpoint, the funding activity category is listed as Education, and the CFDA number is 15.945. Eligibility includes public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, along with other eligible entities as clarified in the opportunity materials. The posting indicates an expected single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an award ceiling of $55,000. The opportunity was created on September 7, 2016, with an original closing date of September 16, 2016, indicating a short application window consistent with a notice of intent or a time-sensitive cooperative agreement process.

Overall, this grant opportunity is aimed at sustaining and expanding a proven, multi-agency internship pipeline in Southern Utah that benefits both public land units (by providing needed seasonal and project-based support) and students/recent graduates (by providing mentored, career-relevant experience in conservation, resource management, and park operations).

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