Alaska Institute For Justice

Alaska Institute For Justice, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Anchorage, Alaska, operates as a prime recipient on federal grants and as a prime contractor on disaster-relief translation and interpretation purchase orders, with no subcontract footprint across its current award portfolio. The organization competes full-and-open; no set-aside designations appear in its recent contract awards, though FEMA's November 2025 interpretation purchase order ($67,526.50) carried a Local Area Set-Aside preference for businesses registered in the System for Award Management and primarily located within the declared disaster areas in Alaska.

AIJ's federal work centers on two distinct capability streams. The first is legal and victim services for underserved populations — immigrants, trafficking survivors, domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, and Alaska Native communities — delivered through grants from the Office on Violence Against Women and the Victims of Crime program. AIJ holds a $750 thousand Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) grant (CFDA 16.524) running through September 2028 in partnership with Standing Together Against Rape, covering civil legal services in family law, immigration, employment, housing, protection orders, and criminal justice matters for domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault survivors in Anchorage. A second $750 thousand Rural Domestic Violence grant (CFDA 16.589) through September 2028 funds victim services across rural Alaska in partnership with the Kodiak Women's Resource and Crisis Center. AIJ also holds a Victims of Crime grant (awarded October 2024, running through September 2027) for specialized legal services to human trafficking survivors statewide, and a prior OVC trafficking grant (October 2022 through September 2025) covering immigration assistance, protective orders, and crime victims' rights enforcement. The second capability stream is emergency management language access — written translation and spoken interpretation in Central Alaskan Yup'ik and English for disaster relief. FEMA Region 10 awarded three purchase orders in support of Presidentially Declared Disaster 4893 (Alaska flooding): a $151 thousand written translation order (June 2026, completion December 2026) covering disaster preparedness guides, public safety notices, and recovery program documents with Section 508-compliant desktop publishing; a $60.7 thousand written translation order (December 2025, completion March 2026) for external affairs outreach; and the $67.5 thousand spoken interpretation order (November 2025, completion February 2026) for in-person and remote disaster assistance interpretation at Anchorage and Bethel service locations.

Customer concentration is split between justice and victims' services (Office on Violence Against Women with 6 awards, Victims of Crime with 5 awards, and Office of Justice Programs with 3 awards) and FEMA disaster response (3 awards, $279 thousand combined potential value). Recent activity shows growth from sporadic awards (one per year in 2020 and 2024) to four awards in 2025 and one in 2026 year-to-date. Two awards (combined potential value $151 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, both FEMA translation contracts with December 2026 and March 2026 completion dates. AIJ operates across work locations including Anchorage, Bethel, and Bothell, Washington, with partnerships spanning Standing Together Against Rape, Kodiak Women's Resource and Crisis Center, Alaska Literacy Program, Catholic Social Services, Alaska Native Justice Center, Anchorage Police Department, the Anchorage U.S. Attorneys Office, the FBI Anchorage field office, and the Alaska Department of Labor.