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The Forum Grant Programs award approximately $130,000 yearly to non-profit organizations and individuals for projects that seek to explore the humanities in our state. For more information about any of the Forum’s grant programs, please contact the Grants Officer at 907-272-5373 or via email at grants@akhf.org
Next Postmark General Grant Application Deadline: October 1, 2008.
Click here for 2008 General Grant Guidelines
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| 2008 General Grant Awards - Total $154,607 |
Project Title |
Project Director : Sponsoring Organization |
Grant Award |
Yaabaa Teshai Stories of the Mendees Cheeg, as told by Ellen Demit, Matriarch of Healy Lake, Alaska |
Connie Friend: Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge |
$5,416 |
A Comparison of Eskimo Myth and Lore to Those of Other World Cultures |
Elizabeth L. Dowdy: Northwest Christian College |
$5,000 |
Symposium "Working Together to Create our Yup'ik Science Exhibit" |
Evguenia Anichtchenko: Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center |
$5,000 |
Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference |
Carol Swartz: Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College |
$6,000 |
Phase 2 - Moving Image and audio collection inventory and access project |
Dave Morgan: Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum |
$6,000 |
24th Annual Sitka Symposium, To Have and To Hold: The Gifts of the Commons |
Carolyn Servid: The Island Institute |
$5,000 |
Life histories of Ethiopians during the Military dictatorship (1974 – 1991) |
Esther S. Antohin |
$5,000 |
Collection-level Cataloguing of AMIPA's Archives |
Michele Miller: Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA) |
$5,000 |
The Torrent Shipwreck: Searching for Alaska's Underwater History (A Documentary Film) |
Steve Lloyd |
$10,000 |
Heinya: Southern Tlingit Dialect and Oral History Documentation Project |
Sarah Dybdahl: Sealaska Heritage Institute |
$3,000 |
Ahtna Anthology: Phase III |
Cynthea L. Ainsworth, Ph.D. |
$8,000 |
16th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference |
Dawson Moore: Prince William Sound Community College |
$5,000 |
Second Annual Alaska Book Festival |
Robert Mandel: University of Alaska Press |
$5,000 |
Fairbanks Communities of Memory |
William Schneider: University of Alaska Fairbanks |
$8,716 |
Alaska Native Heritage Month 2008 |
Michael Fredericks: Alaska Native Heritage Month, Inc. |
$3,500 |
OurTime 2008: Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote |
Elizabeth Posey: Anchorage Urban League |
$10,000 |
"Coming Home: The Story of the Alutiiq Masks," a production of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation |
Dixie Hutchinson: Koahnic Broadcast Corporation |
$8,000 |
Trails North: One Girl's Quest to Run the Junior Iditarod |
Joe Rizzo: Alaska Children's Institute for the Performing Arts (Triumvirate Theatre) |
$3,169 |
UAA/APU Book-of-the-Year: A Focused Collection by Alaska Native Writers |
Libby Roderick: University of Alaska Anchorage |
$5,000 |
Planning Grant: Fishing the Bay - 125 Years and Counting |
Tim Troll: Nushagak-Mulchatna / Wood-Tikchik Land Trust |
$2,500 |
The Lure of the Salmon Song |
Dorothy Laigo Cordova: Filipino American National Historical Society |
$5,450 |
The Making of a Champion: The Mindset of George Attla |
Kathy Turco |
$5,000 |
Post-Production preparation for broadcast of the documentary video, "Unraveling the Wind" |
Beatrice Adler: Storyknife |
$5,000 |
Weaver's Gathering 2008 |
Kay Field Parker: Ravenstail Weavers' Guild |
$6,000 |
Traditional Knowledge, Values, and Language Preserved in Parts of Norton Sound |
Henry Oyoumick |
$5,000 |
The Vincent Soboleff Photograph Collection and the Cultural History of Killisnoo, a Tri-ethnic Community in the Heart of Tlingit Country |
Sergei Kan |
$3,000 |
Salmon trolling oral history panel presentation, slide show and photo display |
Rebecca Poulson: Sitka Maritime Heritage Society, Inc. |
$750 |
Traditional brain tanning of moose hides and other traditional methods of tanning hides. |
Beckie Etukeok |
$3,000 |
Maniilaq Assocation Digital Media Project |
Lisa Savok: Maniilaq Association |
$5,150 |
Ahtna Dipnet Project |
Tana Finnesand: Ahtna Heritage Foundation |
$1,956 |
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| 2007 General Grant Awards - Total $103,100 |
Project Title |
Project Director : Sponsoring Organization |
Grant Award |
Saving a Priceless Alaska Native Oral History Collection |
Leonard Kamerling : University of Alaska Museum of the North |
$8,594 |
Kodiak King Crab: The Rise and Fall of an Industry: An Oral History |
Mike Pfeffer : Kodiak Maritime Museum |
$7,500 |
Davenport Flagstop and the Case of the Golden Spike: A Railroad Mystery |
Joe Rizzo : Alaska Children's Institute for the Performing Arts |
$10,600 |
Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference |
Carol Swartz : Kachemak Bay Campus - Kenai Peninsula College |
$5,000 |
Carl E. Wynn Nature Center: ecology, landscape, and land use through time |
Elizabeth Trowbridge : Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, Inc. |
$5,000 |
Ahtna Anthology: Phase II |
Cynthea Ainsworth, PhD |
$10,000 |
If Only These Walls Could Talk: Interpretative Storytelling of Homer Homesteading |
Betsy Webb:Pratt Museum |
$6,000 |
Nanwalek: Photographing Native Ways in Changing Times |
Lisa Williams : Fotovision |
$5,000 |
Alaska Sisters in Crime's Authors in the Schools Program for 2007 |
Dana Stabenow : Alaska Sisters in Crime |
$5,000 |
Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony |
Joan Juster : Palmer Historical Society |
$3,684 |
Moving Image and audio collection inventory and information access project |
Dave Morgan : Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum |
$6,000 |
Russo-Tlingit Armed Collisions (1792-1804): Conclusion |
Dr. Glynn deV Barratt |
$3,900 |
The St. Herman of Alaska Film Project |
Sean Bledsoe |
$1,370 |
Pilot Point Oral History Project |
Gregory Kingsley : Pilot Point Tribal Council |
$4,000 |
2007 Alaska High School Mock Trial Championship |
Ryan Fortson : Anchorage Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section |
$1,000 |
The 23rd annual Sitka Symposium: Finding Beauty in a Wounded World |
Carolyn Servid : The Island Institute, Inc. |
$5,000 |
The Challenges and Successes of Preserving Indigenous Cultures in Alaska in the 21st Century |
Ray Clements, Ph.D. : Older Persons Action Group, Inc. |
$3,000 |
Taking Oral History to the Next Level |
William Schneider : University of Alaska Fairbanks |
$12,452 |
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| 2006 General Grant Awards - Total $60,001 |
Project Title |
Project Director : Sponsoring Organization |
Grant Award |
Finding Their Own Dance: Reawakening the Alutiiq Arts |
Ellen Van't Hof: Calvin College |
$6,000 |
Names: Keys to Our Past and Cultural Continuity |
Kathy Miller: Sealaska |
$5,257 |
Games of the North- Point Hope Shoot
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Steven Alvarez: Alaska Native Heritage Center |
$5,500 |
Kachemak Bay Writers |
Carol Swarts: Kenai Peninsula College |
$5,000 |
Research for Documentary Film: "We Wear Our History: Northwest Coast Regalia Stories"
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Clarissa Hudson: Artstream Cultural Resources
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$4,000 |
Children's Interactive Learning Center at the Sheldon Museum
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Kathryn Friedle: Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center |
$3,200 |
Computer Cataloging the HSHS Artifact Collection
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Art Copoulos: Hope & Sunrise Historical Society |
$2,000 |
The Kennecott Cadre Project |
Ray Voley: Kenny Lake School, Copper River School District
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$4,000 |
A Cultural and Historical Geography of Cambell
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Cherie Northon |
$3,550 |
North American Saints Series- DVD#1 |
Katherine Vitko, Alexandra Safchuck: Orthodox Chrurch in America, Department of History and Archives
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$5,000 |
The Vincent Soboleff Photograph Collection and the Ethnohistory of Killisnoo, a Native Alaskan Community (1890's-1920's)
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Sergi Kan |
$2,000 |
Asiin… (translation from Inupiatun to English: And then…)
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Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley : Inuit Circumpolar Conference of Alaska
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$1,500 |
Tamamta Katurlluta – A Gathering of Native Tradition Media Project
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Gale Parsons : Pratt Museum |
$3,200 |
July 1915: Wickersham Meets the Tanana Chiefs |
Thomas L. Alton |
$2,000 |
Baranov’s Castle |
Joe Rizzo : Alaska Children’s Institute for the Performing Arts
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$2,000 |
Contemporary Art and Architecture of Alaska
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Julie Decker : International Gallery of Contemporary Art |
$2,000 |
Pioneering Alaska’s Conservation Movement: The Life Story of Ginny Wood
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Karen Brewster: University of Alaska Fairbanks |
$3,794 |
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| Contact Information |
For more information about grants or for assistance with guidelines and the online application system, please contact the Grants Officer at 907-272-5373 or via email at grants@akhf.org
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