The Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is offering this grant to advance the preservation and maintenance of historic National Park Service (NPS) cultural resources. This grant is specifically designed to support and stimulate preservation trades through immersive, pre-professional experiences for emerging professionals in facility management and cultural resource restoration. It targets current students and recent graduates from historic preservation, trade, or facility management degree programs, providing hands-on opportunities on active NPS maintenance projects. The program aims to bridge academic learning with real-world application, promote broader participation in historic preservation, and cultivate strong resource stewardship ethics. A key objective is to provide the NPS with highly trained individuals, actively seeking to engage and diversify the NPS Facilities workforce.
Opportunity ID: 353386
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | P24AS00331 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Historic Preservation Training Center Facility Management and Historic Preservation Emerging Professional Engagement |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Other (see text field entitled “Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity” for clarification) |
| Category Explanation: | Cultural Resources Management |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.946 — Cultural Resources Management |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 03, 2024 |
| Last Updated Date: | Apr 03, 2024 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 03, 2024 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 PM, MT, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 03, 2024 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 PM, MT, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $400,000 |
| Award Floor: | $200,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Private institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) State governments City or township governments County governments Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Park Service |
| Description: | A. Program Need: The Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of historic buildings, structures, and features of the NPS and its partners. The HPTC executes this commitment by demonstrating outstanding leadership through field preservation schooling for basic hands-on craft skills development in masonry, carpentry, wood crafting, and architectural building identification, evaluation, and condition assessment techniques. The HPTC utilizes historic preservation projects as its main instrument for teaching preservation philosophy and progressive development of building crafts knowledge, exposure to the newest stabilization practices, techniques and applications, and enriching project management skills. This structure lends itself to accommodate on projects additional individuals looking to learn and practice new skills through hands-on projects. The HPTC is continuing to grow significantly across the NPS in scope and scale. Additional technical assistance on projects from skilled individuals will assist it in more responsively meeting the demand for project work at NPS sites across the country, and thus better accomplish the HPTC and overall NPS mission to preserve cultural resources for future generations to experience, learn from, and enjoy.B. Program Objectives: The program objective is to support and stimulate preservation trades and project work on NPS cultural resources through hosting pre-apprentice-style and pre-professional experiences for emerging professionals in the fields of facility management and cultural resource restoration and rehabilitation. Specifically, the program focuses on engaging existing students and graduates of trade schools focused on historic preservation skills and knowledge (such as those listed on The Campaign for Historic Trades website) or other facility relevant trades and fields (e.g. water/wastewater management, engineering, architecture, project management, etc.) and degree programs applicable to public land facility management who are looking for opportunities to apply their education to real-life projects. The program will promote greater public and private participation in historic preservation and facility programs and activities while simultaneously building resource stewardship ethics in its participants. An ancillary benefit and objective is to provide the National Park Service with trained individuals to help complete critical historic preservation and facility projects. The program will combine an intensive, immersive work atmosphere with tailored classroom and field-based curriculum to provide participants with any additionally necessary training related to the maintenance, restoration, and preservation of the infrastructure (buildings, bridges, monuments, memorials, culverts, etc.) found on public lands. The work completed will be on active NPS backlogged preventative maintenance and other projects alongside NPS maintenance and preservation professionals. Any curriculum provided by NPS will support this hands-on experience through reinforcement of the importance of trade skills, ethics of conservation and preservation on public lands.The program will strive to engage emerging student or recent graduations (2 years) historic trades and facility professionals from diverse backgrounds currently underrepresented in this field of work. The goal is to interest these skilled individuals in NPS career opportunities and thus diversify the NPS Facilities workforce. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Laurie Haugen
Laurie_haugen@nps.gov Email:Laurie_haugen@nps.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
Related Documents
Folder 353386 Full Announcement-Full Announcement -> P24AS00331 NOFO.pdf
Folder 353386 Other Supporting Documents-Other Supporting Documents -> P24AS00331 FAQs.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Laurie Haugen Laurie_haugen@nps.gov Email: Laurie_haugen@nps.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.946 | P24AS00331 | Historic Preservation Training Center Facility Management and Historic Preservation Emerging Professional Engagement | PKG00285730 | Apr 03, 2024 | Jul 03, 2024 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
353386 SF424_4_0-4.0.pdf
353386 SF424A-1.0.pdf
353386 SF424B-1.1.pdf
353386 BudgetNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
353386 Project_AbstractSummary_2_0-2.0.pdf
353386 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
Optional forms
353386 SFLLL_2_0-2.0.pdf
353386 OtherNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
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