ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) have announced a $1.5 million grant to the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP). The funds will support ANSEP’s wide range of proven STEM education components and give the organization an opportunity to reach more students in the AVCP region. “One of our organization’s key […]
Story Lab, a storytelling and creative writing program for youth in Sitka, has announced that it has been awarded the LRNG Educator Innovator Challenge grant, which is run by the National Writing Project and John Legend’s “Show Me” Campaign. The competition selected a joint application submitted by Story Lab and the Sitka School District from 164 […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development Alaska State Director Jim Nordlund today announced that USDA-Rural Development (USDA-RD) has awarded $200K in funding to the University through its Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) program, to improve economic conditions in Alaska by working to establish new cooperatives and providing technical assistance to strengthen existing ones. […]
It was announced on Thursday of last week by NOAA, that they had funded the Alaska’s Island Trails Network as one of the recipients of the Marine Debris Program’s community-based marine debris removal grants. The program funded the Island Trails Network $128,510 to ” remove and analyze the composition of nearly 60,000 pounds of debris […]