Opportunity Information: Apply for P18AS00682
The grant opportunity titled "Provide Internship Opportunities at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area" is a National Park Service (NPS) funding notice issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is explicitly not an open competition and not a request for applications. Instead, it serves as a public Notice of Intent to Award funding to an existing partner, the Santa Monica Mountains Fund (SMMF), under a current Cooperative Agreement. In other words, the NPS is announcing that it plans to make a single discretionary assistance award to a specific nonprofit partner it is already working with, rather than inviting new proposals from the public.
The core purpose of the project is to operate an internship program that provides in-depth, hands-on work training across the full range of park planning and park management functions at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The program is designed to place roughly 30 to 40 interns in paid or supported service roles for internships lasting about 3 to 4 months each. Collectively, these interns are expected to contribute more than 8 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) positions worth of labor to support park operations, meaning the internship cohort will provide staffing capacity comparable to over eight full-time employees distributed across multiple operational needs.
The internships are structured to build practical career skills while meeting real operational demands of the park. Intern assignments may span natural resource management and conservation work, cultural resource management, interpretation and visitor engagement, trail work and facilities maintenance, law enforcement support functions where appropriate, and broader park planning activities. The public benefit is framed as twofold: interns gain meaningful professional experience and exposure to public lands careers, while the park system gains added capacity to complete priority projects, enhance services, and maintain or improve resources and infrastructure.
A notable feature of the project is that the work is not limited to federally managed NPS lands. While the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area includes federal lands, the program also anticipates intern work on state and local parklands within and surrounding the recreation area. This creates broader regional benefits by improving connected parklands and shared visitor experiences across multiple jurisdictions, reflecting the mixed-ownership landscape of the Santa Monica Mountains and the reality that recreation, habitat protection, and visitor use often span federal, state, and local boundaries.
Recruitment is intended to be both local and national, bringing in participants from nearby communities as well as from outside the region. The program emphasizes workforce development in public lands and conservation-related careers, with the idea that participants will take newly developed skills back to their communities and apply them in future employment. From the NPS perspective, the internships also function as a pipeline-building effort that can introduce more people to park careers and strengthen the broader field of park and resource management.
In terms of outcomes, the notice highlights tangible improvements that internships can produce, such as better-maintained trails and facilities and stronger interpretive program delivery. These improvements are tied directly to increased public access and enjoyment: better trails and facilities can expand safe use and reduce deferred maintenance issues, while stronger interpretation can improve educational value and visitor understanding of resources. The overall expected effect is an improved visitor experience and better customer service across both federal and non-federal parklands within the recreation area.
Administratively, the opportunity is categorized as a discretionary funding action using a Cooperative Agreement funding instrument, aligned with a natural resources activity category and listed under CFDA number 15.954. The eligible applicant type described is 501(c)(3) nonprofits other than institutions of higher education, but because this is a Notice of Intent to Award to a current partner, eligibility language functions more as a classification than an invitation to apply. The Funding Opportunity Number is P18AS00682, the announcement was created on September 11, 2018, and it lists an original closing date of September 25, 2018, which in this context reflects the public notice timeframe rather than a competitive application deadline. The award ceiling is $99,000, and the expected number of awards is one, consistent with the intent to fund a single partner to run the internship program under the existing agreement.Apply for P18AS00682
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Provide Internship Opportunities at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.954.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 11, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 25, 2018 This announcement is not a request for applications. This is a public notice of intent to award financial assistance for project activity to a current partner under a Cooperative Agreement.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $99,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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