Assistance program
Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment
$149.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 15.676
- What it does
- This program seeks to partner with qualified non-profit Youth or Conservation Corps, State Conservation Corps, Indian Tribes, Universities, or veteran serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and fire management projects on Department of the Interior managed lands through authorized U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service programs.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- State Government, County Government, City or Township Government, Special District Government, Regional Organization, U.S. Territory or Possession, Public/State Controlled Institution of Higher Education, Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Federally Recognized), Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Other than Federally Recognized), Indian/Native American Tribally Designated Organization, Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS Status (Other than institution of Higher Education), Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS Status (Other than Institution of Higher Education), Private Institution of Higher Education, Hispanic Serving Institution, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions.
- Authorized by
- Public Lands Corps Act – Public Lands Corps program (16 U.S.C. 1723), Fish and Wildlife Act – Community partnership enhancement (16 U.S.C. 742f(d)); Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117-58 [H.R. 3684] 135 Stat. 1389)
- Program site
- https://www.fws.gov/careers ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$31.4K
<1%
Grants
$149.2M
100%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments