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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
 
 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

 
 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

 
 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

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"

Clarissa Hudson: Artstream Cultural Resources

$4,000

Children's Interactive Learning Center at the Sheldon Museum

Kathryn Friedle: Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center

$3,200

Computer Cataloging the HSHS Artifact Collection

Art Copoulos: Hope & Sunrise Historical Society

$2,000

The Kennecott Cadre Project

Ray Voley: Kenny Lake School, Copper River School District

$4,000

A  Cultural and Historical Geography of Cambell

Cherie Northon

$3,550

North American Saints Series- DVD#1

Katherine Vitko, Alexandra Safchuck: Orthodox Chrurch in America, Department of History and Archives

$5,000

The Vincent Soboleff Photograph Collection and the Ethnohistory of Killisnoo, a Native Alaskan Community (1890's-1920's)

Sergi Kan

$2,000

Asiin… (translation from Inupiatun to English: And then…)

Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley : Inuit Circumpolar Conference of Alaska

$1,500

Tamamta Katurlluta – A Gathering of Native Tradition Media Project

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

$2,000

Contemporary Art and Architecture of Alaska

Julie Decker : International Gallery of Contemporary Art

$2,000

Pioneering Alaska’s Conservation Movement: The Life Story of Ginny Wood

Karen Brewster: University of Alaska Fairbanks

$3,794

 
 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