Alaska International Education Foundation, Inc.

Name of Applicant

Purpose of Proposal

Cash Funded

Follow Up Report Date Scheduled / Date Completed

Torsten Sachs

Tuition fall semester at APU – Masters – 12 credits @ 450.00 + housing @ AIEF

5,400

World Wildlife Federation

To support the implementation of a biodiversity education program for Alaskan and Russian Bering Sea coastal communities – strengthening awareness among Alaska Native youth in the project area of the critical role they play as stewards and beneficiaries of the Bering Sea’s unique natural heritage. The proposed project is designed to promote ecological and cultural understanding, while allowing Alaska Native children to interact and correspond with their neighbors in their Alaska villages and across the Bering Strait – enlarging their worldview and teaching leadership in a highly relevant manner.

Due to “unusual hurdles associated with obtaining visas and making travel arrangements” and other factors, the “Treasures Across the Bearing Sea” learning summit is being replaced.

A workshop in partnership with Audubon, Alaska is scheduled for early May 2004 in Petropovlosk, Russia, focusing on the Pribilof and Commander Island participants exploring and addressing issues common to both island systems and communities. Issues include: status, trends and conservation of northern fur seal populations, status and population trends and conservations of seabird colonies, preventing the introduction and spread of invasive species (e.g., rats, reindeer, aquatic species introduced at port), among others.

Note: $11,000 matching grant from Collins Alaska Charitable Trust

$11,000

Written report due approximately mid to end July 2004.

Narangerel Luvsandagva

Financial assistance for 6 months house rent at AIEF, 15 credits at UAA (Biology) Health Insurance, Food and Personal Items

6,240.00

Tam Agosti-Gisler

Travel Scholarship for an Anchorage School District student to travel to Guadeloupe for daily French lessons and educational excursions to explore the island’s flora and fauna as well as their cultures (French, Creole and Arawak Indian) and Student will take photographs of trip and produce a Power Point presentation about the experience to be shared with fellow students at year-end. A copy on CD will be provided to the Board as well an in-person presentation.

Recipients Zoe Mote and Stephanie Goddard would like to make their Power Point presentation to the board before school is out in May of 2004.

Airfare and travel related expenses for Marie-Christine, a French teacher, for sabbatical. An in-person presentation was given to the Board on the status of Marie-Christine’s visit with Tam Agosti-Gisler February 19, 2004

$2,400.

$2,000.

Hope-Sunrise Library

The program would be run in conjunction with the Hope School (20 students with one teacher, Lenny Yoter, handling a basic K-12

curriculum) and would include parent/community involvement. Kenai Peninsula Borough does not allow the community to obtain grants for the schools.

Sponsor a Village School through ChildReach, an Internationally established organization. We have chosen to do this through the library so we can have an arts and multi-cultural program for extra curricular classes for not only the students, but also our community members.

Sponsorship of the school would include school supplies, projects, nutritional and health needs. ChildReach is good at keeping the letters flowing between students and updates on Projects. The Hope/Sunrise Libraries Mission is to collect, preserve and make accessible resources to help others with research in building knowledge, keeping in mind that knowledge evolves and so must the library.

$4,000.

Seward Unitarian Univeralists

To develop a two-week summer camp in Seward that would present the ten basic principals for fighting hate using tools created by the Southern Poverty Law Center, using tools for demonstrating tolerance, and celebrating diversity, to meet the challenge of providing an opportunity for young people from Alaska and other parts of the world to come together to learn how to stand up to the hate mongers, to promote tolerance and inclusion. Using art, drama, music, dance, writing, story telling and exploration of other countries geography, youth, ages thirteen through eighteen, will lean what other countries are doing, or not ding to fight hatred and discrimination. They will take away tools to contribute positive efforts, and begin to take action on their own or through existing organizations.

$8,500.

Roger and Marcia Rom

Two teenage girls to travel to Zihuatanejo, Mexico in January 2004 for three weeks to help the children of the Netzahualcoyotl Bilingual Primary School for Indigenous children with English, assist with school maintenance and create a video depicting the lives of the school children.

$2,030.

Available after June 21, 2004

Marcia Rom

346-1165