Opportunity Information: Apply for NOIP16AC01715
The Historical Collection and Youth Engagement Program - CHYO is a National Park Service (NPS) cooperative agreement opportunity under the Department of the Interior focused on strengthening the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument (CHYO) in Wilberforce, Ohio through a formal partnership with Wilberforce University. CHYO is a roughly 60-acre site tied directly to Colonel Charles Young, an influential military leader whose home and surrounding farmland are preserved to interpret his life, the Buffalo Soldiers, and their broader significance in American history. A central goal of this agreement is to digitize historically significant collections owned and housed at Wilberforce University that relate to the park's period of significance, helping preserve materials while expanding access for interpretation, research, and public education.
The program pairs historical preservation work with youth development and community engagement. Wilberforce University is expected to host NPS personnel on campus by providing office space and by appointing a dedicated university staff member to serve as the National Park Service Liaison. That liaison, working side-by-side with NPS staff, is tasked with building a youth engagement program that blends historical education, interpretation and public-facing storytelling skills, and leadership development. The partnership is designed to connect diverse audiences, including groups historically underrepresented in national park programming, to NPS opportunities such as service-wide youth initiatives, leadership training experiences, scholar-in-residence programming, and internships. NPS also commits to supporting special historic events connected to the Wilberforce Leadership Program and to recruiting students for existing paid and unpaid NPS internship roles.
On the university side, the recipient responsibilities are broad and practical. Wilberforce University agrees to provide a campus office for CHYO staff, grant access to archival and museum collections, and offer curatorial support and exhibit-development capabilities to help NPS interpret and display historically relevant items. The university also agrees to assist with the development and implementation of CHYO management documents, and to provide shared information space in the visitor center plus event space as needed for monument programs. A major deliverable is the liaison's work: coordinating and planning historic events jointly with NPS, producing strategic implementation plans for each event (including the purpose and a planning calendar), and building evaluation plans in coordination with the university's Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness to assess outcomes and participant satisfaction. The liaison also works with university library personnel and CHYO staff to advance the digitization of the university's historic collection and to ensure appropriate access to items within the digitized archive.
NPS responsibilities are centered on interpretation, program coordination, and capacity-building. NPS agrees to collaborate with the university to tell the story of Colonel Charles Young, the Buffalo Soldiers, and the Wilberforce community through both NPS and university websites. NPS will provide staff to coordinate public programming in Wilberforce and in collaboration with other national parks, and will work with the liaison to identify artifacts at the university that can be shared with the community through exhibits at the park. NPS also commits personnel time to develop youth program initiatives with the liaison and to support leadership training and scholar-in-residence programming at Wilberforce University, reinforcing the dual emphasis on education and workforce or leadership pathways.
This opportunity is explicitly framed as a single-source award, meaning NPS determined that open competition was not practicable and therefore required a written justification under DOI and NPS policy (505 DM 2 and FAPP 1443-2015-06). The justification rests on Wilberforce University's unique connection to the monument and to Colonel Charles Young: he served there as the first Professor of Military Science, and his move to the community and purchase of the home now preserved as the national monument are directly tied to the institution. In addition, Wilberforce University controls and houses the specific archival and historical collections that the agreement aims to digitize, making it uniquely positioned to carry out the work. The partnership also aligns with NPS goals of expanding access and engagement, particularly among minority communities, through coordinated youth initiatives, leadership development, and scholarly programming.
From the funding and administrative perspective, this was a discretionary opportunity issued by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, as a cooperative agreement (not a standard grant), indicating substantial involvement and collaboration between NPS and the recipient. The opportunity number is NOIP16AC01715, tied to CFDA 15.954, with an award ceiling of $100,000 and an expectation of one award. It was created on August 17, 2017 with an original closing date of August 28, 2017. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional eligibility detail referenced in the notice, but the narrative makes clear the intended partner is Wilberforce University due to the site-specific and collection-specific nature of the work.Apply for NOIP16AC01715
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Historical Collection and Youth Engagement Program - CHYO" 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 Aug 17, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 28, 2017. (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 $100,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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