Chugach Regional Resources Commission

This organization participated in the National Native Nonprofit Leadership Survey and was awarded as one of the raffle winners.

To restore and strengthen reciprocal relationships between the Port Graham community and native pollinators through traditional knowledge integration, habitat restoration, and community engagement, ultimately supporting ecosystem health and cultural food security.

Our program will establish a Tribally-led biodiversity crediting framework using eDNA tools to monitor and protect species across the Chugach region, aligning Indigenous values with emerging markets to support long-term stewardship, climate resilience, and sustainable Tribal economic opportunities.

This grant will allow CRRC to hire a climate coordinator to do community outreach, education, and trainings.

With the support of First Nations, CRRC is purchasing the Institute, providing for tribal sovereign jurisdiction. The purchase will make it possible for CRRC to expand the facility and create a coastal resiliency plan to protect the region, including the Institute and its water supply, from flooding and coastal erosion caused by climate change .

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

Implement a coastal armoring plan at CRRC's Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute in Seward, Alaska, Alaska's only mariculture technical center and tribally-owned shellfish hatchery, which requires protection from the ocean (sea level rise and storm events) and mountains (Lowell Creek which is causing more flooding events than mapped or predicted).

This project will increase food security for Qutekcak Native Tribe by creating Asisqat neq'rkat (Healthy Food) Complex. Tribal members may utilize the complex to process subsistence foods and share the longevity of Asisqat neq'rkat by leveraging intergenerational learning. Maintaining existing hydroponic system will increase and retain access to fresh foods.

Bezos Professional Development

Bezos Professional Development

Create a nature-based coastal armoring resiliency implementation plan in the face of climate variability which is causing more flooding events at the project location than mapped or predicted. The project will protect the State of Alaska's only mariculture technical center and tribally-owned shellfish hatchery and provide resiliency.

This project will utilize a hydroponic growing container to support food box program(s), increasing access to healthy foods by Tribal members. After having a proper site location and utilities, the container will help to increase the availability of vegetables through hydroponics in a region with a short growing season.

May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust Grantee

Retain customary and traditional subsistence use allocation of fish and game resources through advocacy and policy change to continue ways of life, provide access to fresh and healthy foods for families and children, and enhance cultural use patterns without conflict with regulations from the federal and state governments.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.