Deadline: 15-Sep-22
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting applications for the Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment Grant Program to provide work and educational opportunities for youth in the areas of natural and cultural resource conservation, development, and scientific research.
Goals
The program has three goals, which are to:
- Encourage emerging transportation professionals to pursue their career serving federal lands.
- Provide much needed transportation expertise to FMLA units and regions to help them address critical transportation issues.
- Support the development, implementation and evaluation of viable alternative transportation for visitors to FLMA’s.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $15,000,000
- Maximum Award: $2,000,000
- Minimum Award: $2,000
- Expected Award Funding: $47,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 250
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible partner organizations must:
- Be a State or local government entity, the governing body of any Indian tribe, a nonprofit organization, or an accredited institution of higher education.
- Be members of the FWS Youth Corps.
- Have financial policies and procedures that reflect generally accepted accounting principles
- Have risk management policies that reflect industry standards and are proactive and thorough in mitigating and managing risk to PLC Participants.
- Have a contract or financial assistance agreement with the Service that clearly identifies both organization’s roles and responsibilities for implementing the PLC program, or have documentation (e.g. organizational charter or similar documentation) that they have performed conservation work on Federal, State, tribal, local or private lands and utilized young people between the ages of 16 and 30 years of age, and Veterans up to age 32.
- Provide liability insurance.
- Provide workers compensation insurance through the partnering organization or the state. (The FECA covers all civilian Federal employees except for non-appropriated fund employees. There is additional special legislation which provides potential coverage to Peace Corps and VISTA volunteers; Federal petit or grand jurors, volunteer members of the Civil Air Patrol, ROTC, Job Corps, YCC, and non-Federal law enforcement officers under certain circumstance involving crimes against the US. And of course, FWS volunteers have certain coverage dependent on VSA’s.)
- Contribute a minimum of 25% of the total costs of the project or internship program either as direct funds or qualified in-kind services unless the project is carried out on Indian or Hawaiian homelands.
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher
- education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336983