Alaska Audubon
Designing a New Model for
Conservation: The Kenai Brown Bear
Project
$70,000-1999
$69,700-2000
John W. Schoen, Ph.D., Project
Director
Alaska Audubon will use the Kenai
Brown Bear, threatened by piecemeal
habitat encroachment, to engage a
broad range of Alaskans in
conservation concerns. Through an
innovative, scientific, and
collaborative strategy, Audubon
intends to bring people interested in
this issue together to find solutions
by using a conservation model which
may be replicated in other
communities.
Alaska Center for the Environment
(ACE)
Alaska Grassroots Activation Project
$60,000-1999
$60,000-2000
Jeff Richardson, Executive Director
Alaska Center for the Environment
seeks to retain, strengthen, and
mobilize its newly acquired member
base of over 9,000 Alaskans, the
largest conservation membership in
Alaska's history. The initiative is a
strategic effort to assess member
needs and interests in order to
increase member commitment and
motivation for progressive stewardship
of the environment. By building a
permanent constituency for
conservation in Alaska, the group will
become self-sustaining over the
long-term.
Alaska Conservation Alliance and
Voice (ACA/ACV)
The ACA/ACV Media Project: Reaching
Out for Conservation
$60,000-1999
$60,000-2000
Alaska Conservation Alliance and
Voice, a consortium of 30 member
organizations, seeks to win broad
support for protecting Alaska's
natural resources through strategic,
media based education of the voting
public. Using earned media and by
bolstering the outreach efforts of
it's member organizations, ACA will
advance the conservation message to
influence a broad spectrum of
Alaskans. Additional funds are
targeted to the "Sustainable Economy
Project", which will encourage
Alaskans to consider the long-term
impacts of extractive industries from
an economic perspective and to compare
those impacts with more sustainable
enterprises.
Alaska Institute for Sustainable
Recreation & Tourism (AISRT)
Guiding Alaska Tourism Toward
Conservation Goals
$69,000-1999
$70,000-2000
Alaska Institute for Sustainable
Recreation and Tourism will implement
a pilot program to provide assistance
to community based efforts to
understand and successfully manage
tourism growth. By offering technical
support to key locations, valuable
lessons can be learned by other
communities facing the same issues.
The intent is to create a statewide
network that will build on experience
and integrate economy, ecology, and
quality of life concerns into
addressing successfully the impacts of
the rapidly growing tourism industry.
Alaska Wilderness League (AWL)
Arctic Fellows Project
$40,000-1999
$31,000-2000
Cindy Shogan, Executive Director
Alaska Wilderness League, which
provides a critical link between
Alaska and the public policy arena in
Washington, DC, will provide
leadership training to Alaskan
Activists through an intensive
internship program. Funds are also
targeted to assist the organization in
evaluating their electronic outreach
efforts to reach activists around the
country.
Ecotrust
Building the Alaska Conservation
Information Support Center
$40,000-1999
$30,000-2000
EcoTrust and Alaska Conservation
Alliance will establish the Alaska
Conservation Geographic Information
Support Center to provide conservation
activists with vital computer mapping
and related analysis and visualization
tools. The Center will be commissioned
to produce discrete, visual maps,
provide technical support for
activists, and provide technical
assistance and support to conservation
organizations which have growing GIS
needs.
Initiative for Alaska's Future
Grantmaking
Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor
Education Program
$50,000
Laura Devaney, President
ANROE is the state's only network of
environmental and nature educators.
ANROE will leverage their proven
volunteer network with additional
staff help as they expand with paid
staff. They will enhance membership
and outreach services while fostering
new relationships and building upon
existing partnerships throughout
Alaska.
National Wildlife Federation,
Alaska Field Office (NWF)
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action
$30,000-1999
$30,000-2000
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action
is an emergent organization designed
to cultivate a responsible
conservation ethic among the Alaskans
who will play the most pivotal role in
determining Alaska's future: our young
people. This group will build
leadership and provide a mechanism for
youth to get effectively engaged in
conservation concerns and activism.
One/Northwest
Alaska Network Project Trainer
$30,000-1999
$40,000-2000
Denise Joines, Executive Director
Online Networking for the Environment
will provide strategic, communications
consultancy for Alaska conservation
organizations in order to use
electronic technology more
effectively. These efforts will
enhance and expand the ability of
citizen activists to share vital
information on their communities and
the ecosystems they care about.
Alaska Natural Resource & Outdoor
Education Program (ANROE)
$50,000-2000
Laura Devaney, President
ANROE is the state's only network of
environmental and nature educators.
ANROE will leverage their proven
volunteer network with additional
staff help as they expand with paid
staff. They will enhance membership
and outreach services while fostering
new relationships and building upon
existing partnerships throughout
Alaska.
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