Partners

The National Park Service has thousands of partner organizations that work with us on projects and programs in parks and communities around the nation. Here are just a few.

In communities we work with:

• State Historic Preservation Officers and the Internal Revenue Service, to review and approve projects that use federal tax credits to give historic buildings new lives.
• States, to make Land and Water Conservation Fund grants to support local recreation projects.
• Indian Tribes, on historic preservation.
• Organizations that provide volunteers, funding, logistical support, and advocacy for the National Trail System.
• National heritage areas, to promote local history and encourage heritage tourism.
• Communities, to help them conserve rivers, preserve open space and develop trails and greenways.

In parks we work with...

• Friends Groups and the National Park Foundation, who raise friends and funds to support the work of the parks.
• Cooperating Associations, to operate bookstores for park visitors and support education.
• Universities in the national network of Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units, to study park Resources to make science-based management decisions.
• The youth organizations to offer opportunities for kids to experience national parks.
• Educators in our Teacher-Ranger-Teacher program, offering a summer working in parks and then sharing that experience in the classroom during the school year.