Project Grant GE29720424

The Alaska Native Heritage Center, Incorporated was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts Program (CFDA 15.071). The grant funding will support the "Elisgu Project (Go Learn It, Yup'ik): A Master Artist Education Project" over a 5-year period from April 2024 to March 2029. The project will implement a statewide network of master Alaska Native artists who will facilitate 6...

The Economic Development Administration awarded a $1,725,667 project grant to the Alaska Native Heritage Center under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 11.307) on September 12, 2022. The grant funding will support renovations to visitor amenities at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, Alaska to improve the visitor experience and strengthen tourism recovery in the area from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, the grant will fund updates to...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center, Incorporated was awarded a $3,388,315 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education on September 30, 2021 to complete the project by September 29, 2024. The grant funding supports the ILAKUCARAQ PROJECT: PROVIDING EXPLORATION OF INDIGENOUS IDENTITIES FOR ALASKA NATIVE YOUTH AND THE EDUCATORS THAT SERVE THEM under the federal Alaska Native Educational Programs (ANEP) grant program (CFDA #84.356). The ANEP...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center, Incorporated was awarded a $292,875 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund the hiring of an Assistant Curator to address a backlog of donated materials by accessioning, cataloging, and rehousing the center's collections of Alaska Native cultural artifacts. This project will help the center maintain its ability to successfully steward its large collection of...

This $1,285,040 federal Project Grant award, funded by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service and awarded under the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts program (CFDA 15.071), supports a wide range of initiatives and programs to preserve and promote Alaska Native culture and arts development. The grant recipient, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Inc., will use the funding to establish degree programs, cultural centers, and other activities focused on scholarly study,...

This three-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), will fund the transcription, translation into English, annotation, and publication of oral narratives from the Upper Inlet Dena'ina people of Southcentral Alaska. The $292,183 in funding will support Native Village of Eklutna to complete the known corpus of audio-recorded narratives primarily collected from late Elder Shem Pete between...

The Project Grant award of $278,367 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program (CFDA 45.308) will enable Koniag, Inc. to partner with the Alutiiq Museum in Anchorage, AK to enhance the museum's newly expanded gallery space. The project will feature a community-led planning and design process to develop 13 displays highlighting the Alutiiq harvesting tradition, community life, and spirituality through artifacts,...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Congressional Directives (CFDA 93.493) program will fund the construction of a new Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) at the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) in Anchorage, Alaska. The CDU is part of the Emergency Services Expansion (ESE) project to address growing patient demand and capacity constraints at the hospital, which serves approximately 189,000 Alaska Native people across the...

The Sealaska Heritage Institute Inc. was awarded a $3,004,203 Project Grant from the Denali Commission under the Denali Commission Program (CFDA 90.100) to undertake the Totem Pole Trail Project from July 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The Denali Commission Program aims to provide critical utilities and infrastructure funding for distressed Alaskan communities. Under this award, Sealaska Heritage Institute will create a totem pole trail and likely conduct cultural preservation activities...

The Alaska Children's Institute for the Performing Arts, Incorporated was awarded a $4,000,000 Project Grant from the Denali Commission (CFDA 90.100 - Denali Commission Program) to support the "TRIUMVIRATE THEATRE REBUILD" project in Kenai, Alaska. The project aims to provide critical infrastructure and community development for the rural Alaskan community. The Denali Commission Program funds a range of projects that address essential needs in distressed and environmentally...