U.S. Department of the Interior Grant for Teaching Traditional Building/Landscape Skills Training Project- SLBE

This grant aims to expand a partnership between Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and SEEDS/NWMYCC youth projects to teach traditional skills to youth (ages 16-25) in green collar industries. The project involves hands-on training and mentorship relationships to provide career opportunities and supplement incomes. Recipients will assist in project planning, crew assembly, collaboration, and reporting. The National Park Service will collaborate, provide technical support, review project stages, and ensure performance standards are met. The deadline to apply for this grant is Aug 31, 2017, 12:00 AM EDT.

Opportunity ID: 296576

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General Information

Document Type:	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:	NPS-NOIP16AC00553
Funding Opportunity Title:	Teaching Traditional Building/Landscape Skills Training Project- SLBE
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:	–
Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:	Education Employment, Labor and Training Environment Natural Resources
Category Explanation:	–
Expected Number of Awards:	1
Assistance Listings:	15.931 — Conservation Activities by Youth Service Organizations
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes
Version:	Synopsis 1
Posted Date:	Aug 17, 2017
Last Updated Date:	–
Original Closing Date for Applications:	Aug 31, 2017
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Aug 31, 2017
Archive Date:	Sep 30, 2017
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$110,000
Award Ceiling:	$110,000
Award Floor:	$0

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants:	Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:	THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS- This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service’s intention to award a task agreement under a previously competed or single source justified master cooperative agreement. Members of the SEEDS Youth Master Cooperative Agreement P15AC00027. – THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS

Additional Information

Agency Name:	National Park Service
Description:	BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Master Cooperative Agreement Number P15AC00027 was entered into by and between the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS), and SEEDS, Inc. to foster local solutions to global issues and provide youth opportunities to gain experience in a number of green collar industries that are increasingly relevant to the 21st century workplace. Green collar industries add value to both the natural resources and the social fabric of a community in additional to any economic benefits. The Teaching Traditional Building/Landscaping Skills Training Project will expand an existing partnership based on service learning projects between Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and SEEDS/NWMYCC youth projects (ages 16-25). This expanded program will include teaching traditional skills that could provide a career opportunity, supplement incomes, and healthy avocations for youth. The project is based on the transfer and practice of skills through hands-on and personalized mentor-apprentice relationships working in crews completing projects addressed for their progressive skill levels. STATEMENT OF WORK RECIPIENT AGREES TO: 1. Assist the traditional skills educator and park historical architect in the planning, project selection, and adapting projects for the skill level of the crews assembled. 2. Assemble and employ the crews, crew leaders, and traditional skills educator for the projects identified and insure crews arrive at job sites as assigned and as scheduled by the traditional skills educator and the park historical architect. Provide transportation to the site for the crews. 3. Collaborate with traditional skills educator and park historical architect in completing projects as assigned and directed. 4. Coordinate with traditional skills educator and park historical architect to select materials and tools needed to insure both are procured and available on the project site when and as needed. 5. Complete all reports, keep the traditional skills educator and park historical architect informed of progress, or rescheduling that may affect the completion of the task or project, and attend all meetings as directed an assigned. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AGREES TO: 1. Participate and collaborate jointly with the Recipient in carrying out the scope of work. 2. To provide a NPS technical representative, park historical architect and building and utilities staff as needed, to assist with specifics of the project as needed. 3. Review and approve one stage of work before the next stage can begin. 4. Direct or redirect the work because of interrelationships with other projects. 5. Immediately halt an activity if detailed performance specifications are not met. 6. Oversee Recipient discretion with respect to scope of work, organizational structure, staffing, mode of operations and other management processes, combined with close monitoring or operational involvement during performance under this Task Agreement.
Link to Additional Information:	–
Grantor Contact Information:	If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Noel Miller Grants Management Specialist Phone 402-661-1658 Email:noel_miller@nps.gov

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