DESCRIPTION:Extend the growing season with the purchase, delivery, and installation of a greenhouse.
Hope Museum Development
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:Hope and Sunrise Historical Society
AMOUNT AWARDED:$9,000
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Hope
YEAR AWARDED: 2020
DESCRIPTION:Project focused on developing and refining programs, exhibits and interpretation at the HSHS Mining Museum; producing newsletters; maintaining the HSHS website; cataloging artifacts; promoting and supervising work parties; and managing museum visitation.
School Year Program Support
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:Four Valleys Community School
AMOUNT AWARDED:$9,000
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Girdwood
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
DESCRIPTION:Project supports FVCS general programming.
Whittier Community School Outdoor Leadership Program
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:Chugach School District
AMOUNT AWARDED:$9,000
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Whittier
YEAR AWARDED: 2020
DESCRIPTION:Project supports and encourages students in Whittier School to engage in outdoor recreational activities.
DESCRIPTION:Installation of two murals that showcase historical information on the Alutiiq people that inhabited the region around Resurrection Bay.
Kids to Slopes
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: Seward PTA
AMOUNT AWARDED:$9,000
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Seward
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
DESCRIPTION:Supports the Kids to Slopes Program.
Moose Pass History Preservation
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:Moose Pass Public Library
AMOUNT AWARDED:$9,000
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Moose Pass
YEAR AWARDED: 2020
DESCRIPTION:Project covers three years of activities including but not limited to: pursuing local partnerships with the end goal of creating a small museum and potential Historical Society, preserving and displaying MPPL’s collection of “Alaska Gold” and “Moose Pass Miner” publications, maintaining MPPL’s website, and creating a long-term strategy for preserving and sharing Moose Pass history.
The Footprints Around Cooper Landing Interpretive Signs
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: Cooper Landing Community Club
AMOUNT AWARDED: $7,807
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Cooper Landing
YEAR AWARDED: 2020
DESCRIPTION: Provides opportunities for youth to document Cooper Landing’s history on signage that will highlight five significant community buildings on three properties.
Zudy’s Café Restoration
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:Moose Pass Public Library
AMOUNT AWARDED:$10,000
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Seward
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
DESCRIPTION:Project is to restore the exterior of the historic Seward Depot which currently houses Zudy’s Café.
Advancing Equity for Youth from Underserved Communities through Outdoor Recreation
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:Alaska Geographic
AMOUNT AWARDED:$24,238
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Regional
YEAR AWARDED: 2022
DESCRIPTION:Providing four fun, immersive, and educational experiences in the KMTA National Heritage Area, including trail building for the Iditarod National Historic Trail and backpacking expeditions on Johnson Pass, Resurrection Pass, and Lost Lake to Primrose. These expeditions aim to connect Alaskan teens to their communities and their public lands while learning fundamental backpacking, earth systems science, and stewardship ethics through direct experience.
Chugach NF Trail Maintenance
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: Alaska Trails
AMOUNT AWARDED:$18,450
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Regional
YEAR AWARDED: 2022
DESCRIPTION:Alaska Trails will continue to build on its successful partnership with the USFS to deploy its trail crew for one week and to conduct two volunteer events in the KMTA area in the summer of 2022.
Cultural Historical Map of the KMTA
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:Mapping Solutions
AMOUNT AWARDED:$8,800
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Regional
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
DESCRIPTION:Creating a map with KMTA region heritage and areas of interest.
Report for America
GRANTEE/SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:KDLL Public Radio/Pickle Hill Broadcasting
AMOUNT AWARDED:$10,000
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: Regional
YEAR AWARDED: 2022
DESCRIPTION:Journalism covering stories in the heritage area communities.
