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The cash will be used to satisfy the wishes of the country’s more than 400 national parks.
PORTLAND, Maine – The National Park Service’s official nonprofit will get its story grant, a $100 million donation that the fundraising described as transformative for the nation’s national parks.
The National Park Foundation, established by Congress in the 1960s for national parks, will receive the grant from the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. Foundation. The park’s foundation on Monday described the donation as the largest grant in history benefiting United States national parks.
The cash will be used to meet the wishes of the country’s more than 400 national parks, said Will Shafroth, president and CEO of the National Parks Foundation.
The base expects to announce the first of the grants stemming from this donation later this year, Shaffroth said.
Exactly how the money will be used remains to be seen, but one of the foundation’s priorities is to repair coral reefs in Florida’s Biscayne National Park, Shafroth said, while the priority is the recovery of trout species in western national parks.
In addition to investment projects for fragile ecosystems and species, Shafroth said the money will also be used to create opportunities for other young people to make stopovers in national parks.
“This grant will allow us to redouble our efforts to make our national parks available to everyone, for generations to come,” he said.
The system’s large number of ensembles include national parks, memorials, historic sites, and other places. It comes with iconic national parks like Yellowstone National Park in Montana and Yosemite National Park in California, as well as beloved sites like the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. It also has preserved spaces that are less available to many people, like Buck. Island. Reef National Monument in the U. S. Virgin IslandsU. S.
The National Park Foundation is in the midst of its “Campaign for National Parks,” a billion-dollar fundraising effort for the parks. Lilly Endowment made the donation to this effort, said N. Clay Robbins, Lilly’s president and CEO.
“We, the crusader of the National Parks Foundation, will decorate the programming and foster the long-term vitality of our nation’s glorious formula of parks, monuments and historic sites,” Robbins said.
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