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 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,...
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 $1,000,000.00 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. on August 23, 2024. The funding supports the "AULLAAGVIK 2.1 - TRIBAL EDUCATOR APPRENTICESHIP" program,...
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...
The Arctic Slope Community Foundation, Inc. received a $1.75 million Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education on September 30, 2021 to develop and implement interventions to improve written communication skills for Alaska Native career and technical education (CTE) students through September 29, 2024. Funded under the Department of Education's Alaska Native Educational Programs (ANEP) federal grant program, the Arctic Slope...
The University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313), administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This two-year grant will support a partnership between UAS and the Alaska Library Association to assess the training needs of library paraprofessionals in underserved Alaskan communities and develop an online professional development microcredential program. The project will conduct an...