Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (www.alaskabvi.org) Capacity building to increase sustainable revenue over five years | $139,600 |
Alaska Children's Services (www.akchild.org) Purchase of laptop computers and storage cabinets | $25,000 |
Alaska Community Foundation - Anchorage Urban League Creative Ventures grant to support the creative activities of a year-long civic engagement initiative, Our Time 2008: Hip Hop and the Art of Political Activism | $50,000 |
Alaska Design Forum, Inc (www.alaskadesignforum.org) Creative Ventures grant to research and publish a book featuring exemplary examples of architectural design in Alaska | $50,000 |
Alaska Humanities Forum (www.akhf.org) Development of three-year plan for Best Beginnings | $25,000 |
Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (www.amipa.org) Cultural Leadership grant for staff to attend the Association of Moving Image Archivists' 2008 annual meeting in Savannah, GA | $2,500 |
Alaska Native Heritage Center (www.alaskanative.net) Completion of the documentary film, Games of the North | $168,700 |
Alaska Native Heritage Center (www.alaskanative.net) Update of the audio-visual equipment used in the Gathering Place and Theater spaces | $25,000 |
Alaska Native Justice Center (www.anjc.org) Support for a statewide conference, Building Momentum 2008: Improving the Systemic Response to Violence Against Alaska Native Women | $5,000 |
Alaska Native Justice Center (www.anjc.org) Interior renovation of administrative office | $7,200 |
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (www.anthc.org) Statewide survey of providers to determine current EHR (Electronic Health Record) usage, specific EHR applications, and future interest in EHR investments | $24,480 |
Alaska Public Telecommunications (www.kakm.org) Creative Ventures - Open Air pilot program to be aired nationally | $50,000 |
Alaska Public Telecommunications (www.kakm.org) Effective Organizations | $60,000 |
Alaska State Council on the Arts (www.eed.state.ak.us/aksca) Cultural Leadership grant for member to attend National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Annual Conference in September 2008 | $3,000 |
Alaska Zoo (www.alaskazoo.org) Purchase of 10 cash registers and two display cases for the gift shop | $16,445 |
Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association (www.alaskanaids.org) Replacement of an agency vehicle with a hybrid model | $25,000 |
Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association (www.alaskanaids.org) Five-month sabbatical for Executive Director Trevor Storrs | $30,000 |
Alzheimer's Disease Resource Agency of Alaska (www.alzalaska.org) Technology grant for new telephone system | $24,081 |
Anchor Arms (dba Safe Harbor Inn) (www.safeharborinn.org) Acquisition of a motel to convert into transitional housing, including a $500,000 challenge | $1,500,000 |
Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (www.acmhs.com) Pathways to Sobriety II case management | $13,000 |
Anchorage Concert Association (www.anchorageconcerts.org) Cultural Leadership grant for two staff to attend the Western Arts Alliance Annual Conference, September 2008, in Seattle, WA | $3,000 |
Anchorage Museum Association (www.anchoragemuseum.org) Creative Ventures: Exhibition of Michael Joo's work "Circannual Rhythm." | $48,680 |
Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center (www.anhc.org) Facility repairs and renovation at the Fairview Health and Dental Center | $25,000 |
Anchorage Waterways Council Computer systems to increase capacity for GIS, video, and graphic needs | $3,873 |
Armstrong, Audrey A Project Award (Folk and Traditional Arts) to make fish-skin baskets, with a goal of having about 10 pieces ready for exhibit in 2009 | $5,000 |
Asian Alaskan Cultural Center (www.aaccus.org) Travel support for dancers and musicians from Seattle's Morning Star Korean Cultural Center | $10,000 |
Battreall, Carl (www.photographalaska.com) Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) to complete the photographs for "An Intimate Portrait of Alaska's Glaciers" and a limited edition book and print set | $12,000 |
Bean's Café (www.beanscafe.org) Kitchen appliances and meal delivery equipment for The Children's Lunchbox program | $11,750 |
Boy Scouts of America Council (www.scoutingalaska.org) Phase One construction of Denali High Adventure Base Camp | $1,000,000 |
Camp Fire USA - Alaska Council (www.campfireak.org) Facility expansion at Camp Kushtaka and Campaign to Make it Possible | $1,000,000 |
Catholic Social Services (www.cssalaska.org) Organizational and fundraising assessment, and a business plan that includes a fund development plan | $25,000 |
Catholic Social Services - Clare House (www.cssalaska.org) Renovations and replacement of appliances and furnishings for shelter for women and children | $19,477 |
Challenge Alaska (www.challengealaska.org) Enclosed equipment trailer, a lift-equipped van, and replacement wheels for basketball wheelchairs for youth with disabilites | $25,000 |
Child Care Connection, Inc. (dba thread) (www.threadalaska.org) Four-month sabbatical for Chief Executive Officer Candace Winkler | $30,000 |
Cook Inlet Housing Authority (www.cookinlethousing.org) Handicapped-accessible playground equipment for Grass Creek Village in East Anchorage | $25,000 |
Cook Inlet Tribal Council (www.citci.com) Medical equipment for the Supporting Breastfeeding for Healthy Babies project | $24,570 |
Cook Inlet Tribal Council (www.citci.com) Three-month sabbatical for President and Chief Executive Officer Gloria O'Neill | $25,000 |
Covenant House Alaska (www.covenanthouseak.org) Replace carpet and clean furniture in the Crisis Center facility | $23,640 |
Denali Family Services (dba) (www.denalifs.org) Upgrade and improve technology equipment and software | $24,605 |
Ennis, Sharon (www.galleryennis.com) Project Award (Visual Arts) to create 22 digital paintings with poems to be placed on People Mover busses in Anchorage and develop a project website | $5,000 |
Filipino American National Historical Society - Alaska Chapter (www.fanhs.net) Travel support for the Filipinas Performing Arts of Washington | $9,225 |
Filipino American National Historical Society - Alaska Chapter (www.fanhs.net) Reprinting of the book, "Filipinos in Alaska," by Thelma Buchholdt | $15,750 |
Filipino Community of Anchorage, Alaska Management Assistance grant to hire three interns to assist with conference | $5,000 |
Friends of McNeil River (www.mcneilbears.org) Publication of a field workbook that documents the bears of the McNeil River | $16,000 |
Friends of the Campbell Creek Science Center (www.friendsofcampbellcreek.org) Youth and adult snowshoes for outdoor programming and a sound system for the Center's multipurpose room | $12,648 |
Irish Club of Alaska Travel support for Patrick Ball and the Medieval Beasts in "The Flame of Love" | $1,350 |
Kaulitz, Garry C (art.uaa.alaska.edu/kaulitz) Project Award (Visual Arts) to participate in international printmaking exhibition and workshop in China | $5,000 |
Kelliher-Combs, Sonya Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) to focus on her work; begin building a studio; and return home to rural Alaska to harvest and prepare indigenous materials such as walrus stomach, seal intestine, moose and musk ox hide, and natural dyes | $12,000 |
Kids' Corps (www.kcialaska.org) Technology: server, software, firewall, hardware and printers | $23,297 |
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (www.knba.org) Purchase and installation of production, broadcast, and distribution equipment as part of a larger project to move KBC's National Native Radio Programming Unit into a new studio and program production facility | $25,000 |
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (www.knba.org) Creative Ventures grant for "Coming Home: the Story of the Alutiiq Masks" and a series of radio features about the resurgence of Alutiiq culture on Kodiak Island | $24,100 |
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (www.knba.org) Native Program Fund Sustainability Project | $200,000 |
Kroll, Caroline L Project Award (Folk and Traditional Arts) to purchase wood carving tools for her woodworking studio so that she may create complex and large format Tsimshian style carvings | $5,000 |
Kurn, Emily G (www.emilykurnmusic.com) Project Award (Music Composition) to produce a CD of original songs focused on her family's history | $5,000 |
Lekander, Lance J (www.lancelekander.com) Project Award (Visual Arts) to purchase an etching press to create print editions and explore new artwork | $5,000 |
Life Alaska Donor Services (www.lifealaska.org) Agency vehicle to transport clinical staff and medical supplies for recovery procedures | $25,000 |
Lupus Foundation of America Alaska Chapter (www.lupusalaska.org) Office furniture, equipment, and technology | $14,864 |
National Parks Conservation Association (www.npca.org) Document the cultural and traditional uses of Serpentine Hot Springs | $25,000 |
Nolan, Maia K Project Award (Literary Arts) to take four months off her full-time employment to complete her first novel | $5,000 |
Providence Health System Washington (dba Providence Home Health Care) (www.providence.org) Replacement of 57 obsolete Lifeline units, which provide independence to seniors and people with disabilities | $24,929 |
Rural Alaska Community Action Program (www.ruralcap.com) Conversion of an apartment building into affordable housing units for low-income individuals with disabilities | $200,000 |
Rural Alaska Community Action Program (www.ruralcap.com) Expansion of Head Start facility in Akiak | $25,000 |
Sitka Summer Music Festival (www.sitkamusicfestival.org) Cultural Leadership grant to attend donor management system conference in San Francisco, CA | $1,859 |
Sitka Summer Music Festival (www.sitkamusicfestival.org) Travel support for the Winter Classics Touring Concert to visit White Mountain, Nome, and Kenai | $3,848 |
Sorensen, Ruth (www.ruthsorensen.com) Project Award (Visual Arts) to devote herself full-time to painting over a three-month period | $5,000 |
Southcentral Foundation (www.southcentralfoundation.com) All terrain vehicles for Silver Salmon camp to minimize the environmental impact of use of the site | $25,000 |
St. Mary's Episcopal Church (www.godsview.org) Facility upgrade for food pantry: install water and sewer line and sink and bathroom facilities | $25,000 |
Strauss, Elise J (www.koicreekbeads.com) Project Award (Crafts) to attend a master beadmaking class in Washington state and the International Society of Glass Bead Makers Conference in Florida | $4,969 |
Trailer Art Center (www.trailerartcenter.org) Feasibility study to determine the viability of a multi-disciplinary arts center | $25,000 |
United Way of Anchorage (www.liveunitedanchorage.org) Implementation of the Imagination Library, a statewide program for books for children | $146,000 |
University of Alaska Anchorage - Department of Music (www.uaa.alaska.edu/music) Digital organ for the UAA Arts Building Recital Hall | $25,000 |
VSA Arts of Alaska (Out North) (www.outnorth.org) Cultural Leadership grant to send staff and vice chair to National Performance Network annual meeting in Seattle, Washington | $3,000 |
VSA Arts of Alaska (Out North) (www.outnorth.org) Travel support for Waves of Mu | $2,276 |
VSA Arts of Alaska (Out North) (www.outnorth.org) Light fixtures and wiring, a heat system pump, roof repair, a film projector, and technology upgrade | $25,000 |
Wyne, Sheila Project Award (Multidiscipline) to supplement her time for a collaborative opportunity: an Outdoor Exhibition of Art and Architecture titled, "Freeze" to be held in January 2009 | $5,000 |
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