Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS NOIP20AC00377
The National Park Service (NPS), within the Department of the Interior, issued this notice to inform the public that it intended to make a single, non-competitive cooperative agreement award to Michigan Technological University (MTU) through the Great Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GLNF CESU). The project is titled "Ethnographic Overview and Assessment - KEWE" and focuses on Keweenaw National Historical Park (KEWE), with the possibility of also including relevant connections to Isle Royale National Park. Rather than funding new fieldwork as the primary emphasis, the effort is centered on pulling together, reviewing, and clearly summarizing ethnographic information that already exists in various forms and places.
The main purpose of the project is to strengthen KEWE's understanding and documentation of the people, communities, and cultural resources tied to the park and the broader Copper Country. The assessment is designed to develop baseline ethnographic information for the park, meaning it will consolidate what is known into a usable foundation that park staff can rely on for future planning, consultation, research, and interpretation. It also explicitly aims to capture and transfer knowledge, which typically means organizing information so it is not siloed in individual collections or personal expertise and can be used by the park over time, including by new staff.
A key deliverable is a written report that identifies communities traditionally associated with KEWE and synthesizes existing ethnographic data about their present and recent cultural systems. The topic focus is closely tied to copper, the Copper Country, and the historical and cultural dimensions of copper mining. In practice, this kind of synthesis commonly pulls together information from prior ethnographies, oral histories, historical documentation, archival sources, museum and university collections, and past research products to create a coherent overview that highlights relationships between communities, places, and resources. The end product is intended to help the park better understand both cultural history and contemporary cultural significance, not just the historic mining story.
The project also includes a commitment to improve geographic information systems (GIS) related to ethnographic resources. That typically means organizing and enhancing spatial data so that culturally significant places, community associations, and resource relationships can be better documented, visualized, and managed. For a park, this can support everything from interpretive planning and education to resource stewardship and compliance activities, because it helps connect cultural knowledge to specific landscapes and locations in a standardized way.
From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity was listed as a discretionary funding action using a cooperative agreement, with an expected single award and an award ceiling of $180,300. The CFDA listing associated with the notice is 15.945. Eligibility was limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, aligning with the plan to award directly to MTU as a CESU partner. The notice was created on March 24, 2020, with an original closing date of April 4, 2020, reflecting that it functioned as a public notice of intent rather than an open competitive solicitation. Overall, the opportunity supports NPS goals of improving ethnographic understanding, organizing and preserving cultural knowledge, strengthening spatial data capabilities, and enhancing the way KEWE interprets and communicates the continuing cultural meaning of the Copper Country and copper mining to associated communities and the public.Apply for NPS NOIP20AC00377
- 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 "GLNF CESU: Ethnographic Overview and Assessment - KEWE" 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 Mar 24, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 04, 2020. (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 $180,300.00 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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