LATEST NEWS
Bahnke Receives 2020 Howard Rock Leadership Award
We are so proud to share that Kawerak President Melanie Bahnke was awarded First Alaskans Institute's prestigious Howard Rock Alaska Native Leadership Award for 2020. The award states, "Akighqukaaghaq is called upon often by our community to advocate on behalf of Arctic [...]
New Grant Makes Young Engineers
A recent four million dollar grant award project funded by the U.S. Department of Education will bring new opportunities for an estimated 2,680 Alaska Native Students in engineering education over the next four years. The collaborative project between Kawerak Inc and NACTEC [...]
Kawerak and BSNC nominate Loretta Bullard to co-chair AFN
Oct. 9, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kawerak and BSNC nominate Loretta Bullard to co-chair AFN (Nome, Alaska) –Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) and Kawerak, Inc. are pleased to jointly announce their nomination of Loretta Ublugiaq Bullard as Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) [...]
Kawerak, NSEDC and NSHC provide donation to City of Nome to expedite processing of sexual assault backlog cases
Kawerak has coordinated a $38,295 donation to the City of Nome alongside partners Norton Sound Health Corporation (NSHC) and Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation (NSEDC), to ensure the timely and appropriate investigation of the backlog of sexual assault cases. Public Safety remains [...]
A Message from Our Head Start Director
September 11, 2020 Dear Parents, Welcome to the 2020-21 program year! We are very happy to have seasonal staff back to work and to have resumed services remotely beginning the week of August 24 for all our accepted students. Since the COVID-19 [...]
Communities One Step Closer in Emergency Preparedness in COVID Pandemic
Kawerak's Emergency Preparedness Specialist Charlene Saclamana assists village communities in creating their SCERP- Small Community Emergency Response Plan. In completing these plans many communities have identified the school as their shelter-in-place safety location if a natural disaster strikes. Having access and permission [...]
Head Start Teachers Get Lessons in Language
Our Head Start staff recently virtually spent a week with Yaayuk Alvanna Stimpfle, EHP Director at Kawerak, learning native language teaching skills through Blackboard Collaborate. The weeklong intensive was the culmination of a semester long Northwest Campus Course called INU 115: Conversational [...]
Seeking Comment: Community Services Block Grant CARES Funding
Kawerak is looking for feedback on the Community Service Block Grant CARES funding. The CSBG CARES funds will be used to provide services to assist low-income, unemployed, underemployed, homeless, and elderly families and individuals through a wide array of activities that lead [...]
Meet Our Newest VPSOs to the Region
Kawerak is proud to congratulate our three newest VPSOs on graduating from the 9 week long Department of Public Safety training academy in Sitka in April of this year. Not only is training and the distance challenging in its own right, but [...]
SEEKING CONTRACTOR – RFP: Regional Recycling Center Feasibility Study
Kawerak Request for Proposal Regional Recycling Center Feasibility Study DUE OCTOBER 2, 2020 KAWERAK ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM Download the PDF version Table of Contents I. Document Purpose and Background....................................................................................2 II. Summary of Deliverables ...................................................................................................... 2 III. Project Information...............................................................................................................3 IV. Evaluation Process.................................................................................................................5 V. [...]
Foreign Marine Debris Found in the Bering Sea
The Bering Sea has noted an abundance of foreign debris washing up on our shores. Communities like Unalakleet, Gambell, Savoonga and Nome have all reported and documented hoards of this debris. And these cases are the reported ones, which likely means more [...]
Bering Strait UAA PPE Survey
Dear Bering Strait Region City, Tribe, ANCSA Village Corporation and School Leaders, We (University of Alaska Anchorage) invite your community leadership from the City, Tribe, ANCSA Village Corporation and School to participate in this survey to help gauge the availability of personal [...]
