Cooperative Agreement P13AC00349

The Yukon-Koyukuk School District, doing business as Raven Correspondent, was awarded a $2,209,825 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide remote learning opportunities to students in nine isolated Alaska schools lacking internet connectivity. Under the TECH BOOST project, Raven Correspondent will deliver online educational content and instruction to participating schools located in geographically remote areas of Alaska....

The Bering Straits Regional Housing Authority received a $2,300,000 Project Grant award from the Denali Commission (CFDA 90.100 Denali Commission Program) on April 1, 2025 to provide non-federal match funding for the Last Frontier Housing Initiative. This program supports critical infrastructure and community development projects in rural Alaska, particularly for distressed and environmentally threatened communities. The grant will enable the housing authority, a tribally owned firm and...

The Denali Commission awarded a $220,000 Project Grant to the Napaimute Native Village of doing business as the Napaimute Traditional Council to provide ice road servicing between Tuntutuliak and Sleetmute, Alaska from March 1 to May 30, 2021. Under the award, the grantee delivered critical transportation services over ice roads connecting the remote, rural communities as part of the Denali Commission Program (CFDA No. 90.100). The Denali Commission Program aims to fund infrastructure projects...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service has awarded a $34,993,700.00 Project Grant to Interior Telephone Co (doing business as Telalaska Network Services) under the Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program (CFDA 10.752). The grant funding is provided through the ReConnect Program, which aims to facilitate broadband deployment in rural areas without sufficient access. The award will be used to deliver broadband infrastructure and services in Anchorage, AK over a 2-year period from May...

Kawerak, Inc. was awarded a $1.54 million project grant from the Denali Commission under the Denali Commission Program (CFDA 90.100) to provide backhaul connectivity services throughout Alaska. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022. As the Denali Commission aims to fund critical infrastructure projects in distressed Alaskan communities, this award will support Kawerak in delivering broadband and telecommunications services to unserved and underserved areas of the...

This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) will mitigate threats to critical salmon habitat in the Yukon River Delta. The project aims to restore aquatic connectivity by removing a fish passage barrier in a Yukon River slough used by five Pacific salmon species. It will also involve inventorying and assessing fish passage barriers in the lower Yukon region, with community...

The federal Project Grant award of $17,320,136.00 to Kawerak, Inc. is for the "Advancing Connectivity and Equity in the Remote Bering Straits Region Project" under the Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program (CFDA 20.938) administered by the Federal Highway Administration. The grant will fund transportation infrastructure improvements, including highway construction, roadway reconstruction, and bridge rehabilitation, to enhance connectivity, mobility, and economic growth in the...

The Lummi Indian Business Council, also known as the Lummi Tribe of Lummi Reservation, will use a $104,835 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs to expand broadband infrastructure and internet services across the Lummi Reservation. Funded through the Indian Economic Development program administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs under Assistance Listing Number 15.032, the grant will support the Tribe's goal of establishing a tribally-owned internet...

The federal Project Grant award of $30,323,227 was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service under the Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program (CFDA 10.752). The grant funds Dena Nena Henash, doing business as Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC), a non-profit Alaska Native organization, to deliver broadband infrastructure and high-speed internet access in rural areas of interior Alaska. The grant supports the installation of fiber optic and ethernet cabling,...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Information Exchange Network (CFDA 66.608) program will support the Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island in Alaska. The project aims to build the community's capacity and knowledge regarding integrating its Indigenous Sentinels Network (ISN) with the EPA's Exchange Network (EN) database. Key activities include communicating EN capabilities to tribal stakeholders, prioritizing future EN...