The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. received a $100,000 Native American Library Services Basics Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.311) to sustain and improve library services and operations within the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands communities. The project will enhance library and archival services for accessing, learning, and preserving information, including supporting essential library activities such as acquiring materials, developing programming for...
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 Santa Clara Pueblo will use a $130,105 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program to develop community outreach and educational programming. Over a two-year period ending August 2024, the Tribe will create an assessment tool to understand community needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, hold monthly roundtables with stakeholders, identify four outdoor learning spaces, and plan and implement twelve Montessori...
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 Salamatof Tribal Council of Alaska received a $150,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) federal grant program (CFDA 45.311). The grant project will contract a professional library consultant to evaluate current library services and provide recommendations for the development and enhancement of the tribal library's workflows, policies, procedures, collections management, needs...
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 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 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 $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...
This $1.25 million project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program will fund the San Jose State University Research Foundation's "Reading Nation Waterfall: Increasing Access to Literacy and Libraries for Native American Children and Families" project from September 2022 to March 2025. Working with the National Head Start Association and five Native American tribes, the Foundation will increase access to children's books and library...