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The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the country’s national parks.
The National Park Foundation, which Congress created in the 1960s to support national parks, will receive the donation from Indianapolis-based foundation Lilly Endowment Inc. The park foundation described the gift on Monday as the largest grant in history benefiting U.S. national parks.
The money will be used to address the needs of the country’s more than 400 national park sites, said Will Shafroth, president and CEO of the National Park Foundation.
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Happy the Parks are getting this, but if be much happier if they always had this and we taxed the ultra wealthy appropriately.
The National Park Foundation, which Congress created in the 1960s to support national parks, will receive the donation from Indianapolis-based foundation Lilly Endowment Inc.
Yes, that’s the Lilly of pharma fame.
Hmm, strings attached? We’ll take it, the NFS needs the funds. And hey, any other wealthy donors out there who think Lilly is being a bunch of cheapskates, feel free to show us how much class you have by donating even more to the NPF, by all means.
This is great, but that seems like a small amount of money for such a vast, critical, and beautiful system. I wish we treated national/state parks and public education as the vital societal good that they are.
In other news, Congress has reduced the NPS budget by $100 million.
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