The federal Project Grant award of $580,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215), supports the "Repair, Rebuild, and Revitalize ("RRR") Traditional Language Initiative" implemented by the North Slope...
Arctic Slope Community Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $3,957,878 Project Grant from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education's Alaska Native Educational Programs federal grant program (CFDA #84.356) on September 30, 2021. The grant will support the PROJECT LEARN: ACADEMIC & CULTURAL ENRICHMENT FOR ALASKA NATIVE YOUTH program through September 29, 2024. The PROJECT LEARN program recognizes the unique educational needs of Alaska Native students and will...
The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. received a $100,000 Native American Library Services Basic Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.311) to sustain and improve library services and operations within its community. The project will enhance library and archival services for accessing, learning, and preserving information, supporting essential activities such as acquiring library materials, delivering community-focused programming, and providing training...
The Sealaska Heritage Institute received a $249,891 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313). The two-year "Raven Reads at the Library Toolkit" project will develop culturally responsive early literacy programming for children and learning resources for librarians. Key project activities include creating a cultural responsiveness assessment for libraries, producing e-learning modules for...
The Northwest Arctic Borough School District was awarded a $1,186,243 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Alaska Native Educational Programs (CFDA 84.356) initiative. The grant supports the ILISAUTRI PROJECT, which aims to address the unique educational needs of Alaska Native students in the district's 11 remote villages. Key activities to be delivered through the one-year grant, which runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31,...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (CFDA 11.029), will provide $27,115,982 to the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope (ICAS) to improve broadband access and digital literacy among tribal members in Utqiagvik, Alaska. The funding will be used to acquire or retrofit tribal facilities to provide training on broadband technologies, prepay 12 months of internet service and...
The federal Project Grant award for $250,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). The award to the Alaska Library Network, a non-profit organization located in Juneau, Alaska, will be used to improve the delivery of...
The Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government will further develop its Tanamawaa.com website and digitize archival materials under a $143,968 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The IMLS Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program supports improving core library services for Native American tribes and Native Hawaiians. Under this award, the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island will add a new section to its existing Tanamawaa.com...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) to the Arctic Slope Community Foundation, Inc. The grant supports the "AULLAAGVIK 2.1 - TRIBAL EDUCATOR APPRENTICESHIP" project, which focuses on...
Arctic Slope Community Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $172,026 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to develop an Iñupiaq language web dictionary, sentence builder, and translator from July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The goal of the project is to preserve the Iñupiaq language through digital tools for indefinite use by Iñupiaq speakers, learners, researchers, and educators. Key...