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 Parks Foundation, established by Congress in the 1960s for national parks, will receive the donation from the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. Foundation. The park foundation on Monday described the donation as the largest grant in history benefiting America’s 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 known, but one of the foundation’s priorities is restoring coral reefs in Florida’s Biscayne National Park, Shafroth said, while the priority is restoring trout species in western national parks. . These are among the foundation’s recent investments.
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 stopover at 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 many sets of the formula include national parks, memorials, monuments, historic sites, and other places. It includes 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 pristine spaces that are less available to many people, such as Buck Island. Reef National Monument in the United States Virgin Islands.
The National Park Foundation is in the midst of its “Campaign for National Parks,” a billion-dollar fundraising effort for parks. The Lilly Endowment made the donation for that effort, N said. Clay Robbins, President and CEO of Lilly.
“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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