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From: oiea@ios.doi.gov<BR>Sent: 1/8/2014 10:31:25 A.M. Pacific Standard
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face="verdana, sans-serif">This morning at the FDR Memorial, Secretary Jewell
announced a public-private partnership with American Eagle Outfitters, who
made an historic $1 million commitment to support the initiative to better
connect the next generation to America's great outdoors. This is the
first pledge toward Secretary Jewell’s target of raising $20 million from
private partners by 2017 to support the <A
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target=_blank>21st Century Conservation Service Corps</A> (21CSC), as
outlined in her <A
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style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">Date: <SPAN
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(204,204,204) 1px dashed">January 8,
2014</SPAN><BR>Contacts: Jessica Kershaw (DOI),
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">Secretary
Jewell Announces $1 Million Private Funding Commitment to Advance Youth &
Conservation Initiative</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times"><BR></SPAN></STRONG><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">American Eagle
Outfitters, Inc. is First Company to Pledge to Newest Public-Private
Partnership to Develop Next Generation of Outdoor Stewards<BR></SPAN></EM></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times"><STRONG>WASHINGTON,
D.C.</STRONG> – As part of an ambitious initiative to engage and employ
the next generation through America’s great outdoors, Secretary of the
Interior Sally Jewell today announced a public-private partnership with
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. that will help reach Interior’s goal of
providing 100,000 work and training opportunities to young people and veterans
on public lands.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">American Eagle
Outfitters, Inc. (AEO) announced an historic $1 million commitment to develop
the next generation of outdoor stewards. The funding commitment is the first
in AEO’s philanthropic history and is also the first pledge toward Jewell’s
target of raising $20 million from private partners by 2017 to support
the <A
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target=_blank>21st Century Conservation Service
Corps</A> (21CSC). </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">The 21CSC,
launched by the Obama Administration as part of the America’s Great Outdoors
program, is a national collaborative effort to put America’s youth and
veterans to work protecting, restoring, and enhancing America’s natural and
cultural resources. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">Jewell made the
announcement today at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington,
D.C., in recognition of the Civilian Conservation Corps that President
Roosevelt created over 80 years ago.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">“What we’re
doing today embodies the spirit of President Roosevelt’s CCC – coming together
to put young people and veterans to work on our public lands which will
instill a lifelong conservation ethic that not only benefits them, but our
public lands and our country,” said Secretary Jewell. “American Eagle
Outfitters has a long history of philanthropy, conservation and volunteerism
and I applaud them for this unprecedented commitment to the youth initiative.
This lays a strong foundation toward reaching our goal to provide positive
experiences for young people and veterans on our public lands that offer both
employment and meaningful connections to the outdoors.”</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">The $1 million
dollars will directly support non-profit corps programs that provide work and
training experience to young people and veterans on Interior’s public lands,
such as the Student Conservation Association.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">“American Eagle
Outfitters is proud to support the conservation of public lands through
America's youth,” said Helga Ying, Vice President of External Engagement and
Social Responsibility, American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. “This public-private
partnership is one close to our customers' hearts and directly reinforces our
company's community engagement principles. Through this initiative, we are
able to provide opportunities for students to work together to protect our
planet and improve our country through a deeper connection to nature, civic
engagement and community development.”<BR><BR>Already an initial group of
nearly <A
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target=_blank>100 organizations</A> have been approved as partner
organizations to stand up the 21CSC and provide work opportunities through
supervised crews or small teams. In the coming months, the 21CSC National
Council, made up of <A
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target=_blank>eight federal departments and agencies</A> including the
Departments of Agriculture and Interior, will focus on recruiting additional
member organizations.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">“Partners like
American Eagle Outfitters' are critical to the Administration's efforts to
conserve our public lands and to connect a new generation of Americans to the
great outdoors,” said Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture.
“We are grateful for this contribution to the 21CSC initiative, and look
forward to continuing to build public and private sector support to grow this
initiative and engage more young people and veterans in important conservation
work.”</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">Jewell first
outlined her youth initiative in a <A
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target=_blank>speech</A> at the National Press Club in October where she
emphasized the need to bridge the growing disconnect between young people and
the great outdoors. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times">The goals of
Interior’s youth initiative for the next four years
include:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times"><STRONG>Play:</STRONG> Interior
will develop or enhance outdoor recreation partnerships in a total of 50
cities over the next four years to create new, systemic opportunities for
outdoor play for more than 10 million young people.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times"><STRONG>Learn:</STRONG> Provide
educational opportunities to at least 10 million of the nation’s K-12 student
population annually. In addition to welcoming students into nature’s
classroom, we are developing and strengthening new online education resources,
to reach more students.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times"><STRONG>Serve:</STRONG> Engage
1 million volunteers annually on public lands, effectively tripling the
numbers we have now. We know that many more people are interested in
volunteering at national parks, wildlife refuges and public lands, but there
are often insufficient staff resources to coordinate them. In order to achieve
the volunteer goal, we will place a renewed emphasis on volunteer coordination
and management.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',times"><STRONG>Work:</STRONG> To
develop the next generation of lifelong conservation stewards and ensure our
own skilled and diverse workforce pipeline, Interior will provide 100,000 work
& training opportunities to young people within our bureaus and through
public-private partnerships. As part of this effort, we aim to raise an
additional $20 million to support the youth work and training
opportunities.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>