Closed · P20AS00056 · CFDA 15.945 · Discretionary
Enhance Student Career Development through NPS Collections Cataloging and Preservation
Federal grant opportunity posted by National Park Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $83K-$275K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- April 12, 2020
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Enhance Student Career Development through NPS Collections Cataloging and Preservation is a closed discretionary listing from National Park Service that offered $83,000 -- $275,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 8,506 other opportunities from National Park Service.
- $83K-$275K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 15.945
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Enhance Student Career Development through NP… is closed (last close April 12, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Park Service still indexes 8,506 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed April 12, 2020
Est. Total Funding
$275,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
National Park Service stewardship responsibilities include the preservation of cultural resources associated with park units, including museum collections. The Alaska park units have been the traditional homelands to indigenous groups for thousands of years, resulting in a large number of archaeological sites across the state requiring NPS stewardship. The NPS preserves, researches, and maintains archaeological sites in alignment with federal law and policy, and is further responsible for the curation of collections generated from these many culturally significant areas. At present, there is a backlog of at least 60,000 archaeological objects that need to be curated for preservation at the Alaska Regional Curatorial Center. The objective of this Agreement between the University of Alaska Anchorage Department of Anthropology (UAA) and the Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS) is for the purpose of providing collections management and preservation training opportunities to university students through their participation in processing the backlog of collections held at the Alaska Regional Curatorial Center (ARCC). Student participants will provide curatorial support to the NPS Alaska Regional Curatorial Center by assisting with the processing and preservation of collections from national parks across the state, including Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, the Western Arctic Parklands, Kenai Fjords National Park, and other park units. Students will be trained in all aspects of the curatorial work they will be conducting, providing them with a foundation of knowledge that may be utilized in other aspects of their studies or career trajectories. This work influences the effectiveness and acceptability of agency goals. Programs carried out by this partnership will directly affect the preservation and enhancement of cultural resources maintained by the national parks in Alaska. It is anticipated that at least 60,000 items will be cataloged and rehoused to professional standards during the course of this project.
Campus applicant desk · Education
Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for Enhance Student Career Development through NP… (Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education). This reads as a campus competition desk, not a civic or commercial open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Education · Humanities (ED;HU). 1,235 other National Park Service listings share this eligibility-code string (15% of 8,507).
- Code 06
- Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Agency Contact
Grant Management Specialist Erica Cordeiro 907-644-3315 Erica_Cordeiro@nps.gov
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