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The Albright-Wirth Grant Program is a developmental program that awards grants to National Park Service employees to pursue a variety of career-enhancing goals. Grants are awarded each year through a self-nominating, online application process.
2008 Albright-Wirth Grants
The proposals that were selected for 2008 Albright-Wirth grants demonstrate that employee development benefits the NPS, as almost every project had application to the applicants’ present or future NPS employment. Education was an important goal for the grantees. Four grantees will learn second languages –Spanish, English, and Arikara (a Native American language). Grantees will obtain information technology credentials, take geology classes, gain geographical information system training, and learn how to engineer logjams. Eight grants will be used to pursue advanced degrees in fields such as fire ecology, project management, hydrogeology, museum studies, marine science, natural resources, acquisition management, and resource interpretation. One grant will be used to pursue a CPA, a step towards becoming a park superintendent.
A number of funded projects will directly benefit parks as well as employees. One grant will be used to create an educational video program; another will be used for training in developing community-park partnerships; a third grant will be used to obtain a pilot’s license. Several of the grants will be used for research. Albright Wirth funded a team project that will travel to South America to learn about condor conservation programs. It also funded research on a collection of letters from a soldier in the Civil War. Grants will also be used for conference attendance, to the Cities on Volcanoes Conference, the National Association of Interpreters Conference, the Association of Air Force Missileers, and the American Association of Museums annual conference. In total, 32 grants were given for 2008.
