Opportunity Information: Apply for P19AS00309
The grant opportunity titled "Catalog and Describe Park Archives in the Southeast" (Funding Opportunity Number P19AS00309) is a National Park Service project under the Department of the Interior focused on improving the long-term care and usability of archival holdings across several National Park Service units in the Southeast Region. The core purpose is to process, preserve, and make accessible archival collections held at Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Blue Ridge Parkway, Little River Canyon National Preserve, Cape Lookout National Seashore, and Vicksburg National Military Park. In practical terms, the work centers on taking complex, often mixed or under-described park records and bringing them under intellectual and physical control so they can be safely maintained and more easily discovered and used by park staff, researchers, and the public.
The project is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means there is substantial involvement by the federal agency during performance of the work. Here, the archival team is expected to operate under the direction of the Southeast Region Chief of Museum and Archival Services and the Southeast Region Regional Archivist. The planned staffing model includes professional project archivists and graduate research assistants, reflecting both an education and workforce-development angle and the labor-intensive nature of archival processing. Their responsibilities include identifying and appraising materials, arranging and processing collections, describing records in a consistent way, and producing finding aids that explain what the collections contain and how they are organized. The emphasis on description and finding aids signals that the end goal is not just storage or basic preservation, but meaningful access through improved documentation and discoverability.
Park staff at each participating unit are positioned as key partners rather than passive recipients. They are expected to provide guidance about local context, help the archival team understand the complicated history and administrative background of the records, and assist in shaping a workable processing plan. They may also contribute technical expertise tied to the specific content of the collections, which is important because park archives often include a wide range of formats and record types, such as administrative files, maps, photographs, cultural resource documentation, reports, and other historically significant materials that can be difficult to interpret without on-the-ground knowledge.
Administratively, the opportunity is listed as discretionary funding under the activity category of education and is associated with CFDA number 15.945. Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, which aligns with the use of graduate research assistants and suggests the NPS intended to partner with a university or similar public academic institution. The notice was created on June 21, 2019, and it is explicitly described as a Notice of Intent to Award rather than a request for applications, meaning it was not open for full and open competition and was primarily published to satisfy public transparency requirements about the agency's intent to fund a specific project partner. The expected number of awards is one, with an award ceiling of $151,327, indicating a single coordinated effort covering multiple parks rather than separate awards for each site.
Overall, the opportunity supports a regional archival processing initiative aimed at strengthening stewardship of NPS historical records in the Southeast. By investing in professional and graduate-level archival labor, guided by regional archival leadership and informed by park staff expertise, the project is designed to move collections from being difficult to navigate and potentially at risk to being organized, described, and accessible through standardized finding aids and improved preservation practices.Apply for P19AS00309
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Catalog and Describe Park Archives in the Southeast" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 21, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by This Notice of Intent to Award is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Services intention to fund the following federal financial assistance project without full and open competition.. (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 $151,327.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
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