Check out this week’s Money Monday Funding Opportunities newsletter from Chugachmiut Grant department for November 6, 2023! Get a snapshot of the latest available grant opportunities. If you see a grant you would like to pursue, please email us at grants@chugachmiut.org or call 907-562-4155.

Check out this week’s Money Monday Funding Opportunities newsletter from Chugachmiut Grant department for October 23, 2023! Get a snapshot of the latest available grant opportunities. If you see a grant you would like to pursue, please email us at grants@chugachmiut.org or call 907-562-4155.

Check out this week’s Money Monday Funding Opportunities newsletter from Chugachmiut Grant department for October 16, 2023! Get a snapshot of the latest available grant opportunities. If you see a grant you would like to pursue, please email us at grants@chugachmiut.org or call 907-562-4155.

Check out this week’s Money Monday Funding Opportunities newsletter from Chugachmiut Grant department for October 2, 2023! Get a snapshot of the latest available grant opportunities. If you see a grant you would like to pursue, please email us at grants@chugachmiut.org or call 907-562-4155.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

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Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Fall Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Fall Edition

  • Career Opportunities
  • Youth Summer Camps
  • Traditional Qayaq Dedication Ceremony
  • Chugachmiut Heritage Archive Opportunity
  • Chugachmiut Birth to 5 Head Start Program
  • Chugachmiut Scholarship Opportunity
  • Housing Improvement Program
  • Poem – “No Name Mountains” by Gail Evanoff
  • Health Services Division News
  • Employee Spotlights – Brent S. Harmon and Sheila Lowe
  • Christmas Card Design Contest

📸About the Cover: Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation hosted summer camps with Accessing Choices in Education (ACE), a program that allows us to provide educational opportunities for students in our communities that are Alaska Native to meet their educational goals. The Chugachmiut Youth Summit was held in July in Anchorage where 12 youth experienced and practiced Sugpiaq language, traditional culture through Elders, recognized experts, through games, crafts, media, models, art, sea life, and plants. Here they are visiting the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Front row (left to right): Damian George, Rhoda Moonin, Ephimia Moonin-Wilson, Emma Tanape, and Imya Hernandez. 2nd row (left to right): Benjamin Kvasnikoff, Kenji Simmons, Julianne Michener, and Trinity Vlasoff. 3rd row (left to right): Mackinley Greene, Kayonte Simmons, Ashton Meganack, Trinity Vlasoff, Juanita Wood, Bella Velez, and Nancy Yeaton. Back row (far right): Iverson Moonin.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

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Check out this week’s Money Monday Funding Opportunities newsletter from Chugachmiut Grant department for August 28, 2023! Get a snapshot of the latest available grant opportunities. If you see a grant you would like to pursue, please email us at grants@chugachmiut.org or call 907-562-4155.

Applications are open for the Chugachmiut Housing Improvement Program (HIP), funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The HIP is a need-based program that can help repair or renovate your current house or assist in purchasing a new home.

To qualify, you will need an application, a copy of your tribal ID, proof of household income, proof of land ownership or lease, proof of disability if claiming it on the application, and live in the Chugach region.

Please get in touch with Georgina Sumstad, Executive Assistant, at georgina@Chugachmiut.org for more information. The deadline for this year’s application will be November 12, 2024; submit your application as soon as you can.

Download the application: HIP Application revised 2-01-24

More info: https://chugachmiut.org/capacity-building/land-use-planning/

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Summer Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Summer Edition

  • Career Opportunities
  • Step Challenge
  • Health Fairs
  • Recovery Camp
  • Fire and Forestry Programs Update
  • Education
  • Realty – Probate Process
  • Chugachmiut Regional Health Center Groundbreaking
  • Qutekcak Native Tribe Celebration
  • Tatitlek Cultural Exchange
  • Qutekcak Native Tribe Technology Upgrades
  • Boating Safety
  • Nunaka Game App Released
  • Finance Team Spotlight
  • Employee Spotlight – John H. Yakanak, Jr.

📸About the Cover: Chugachmiut board members Larry Evanoff, Vice Chair, Fran Norman, Chair, and Arne Hatch, Director break ground for the Chugachmiut Regional Health Center on June 3 in Qutekcak (Seward). Chugachmiut has operated the North Star Health Clinic since 1987 in Seward but, by January 2025, the 19,475 square-foot Chugachmiut Regional Health Clinic will be constructed and operating. The Center will serve as Chugachmiut’s regional medical hub providing medical, dental, and behavioral health services for Alaskans in medically underserved areas within our region. Photo by Mackenzie Banbury.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

Cama’i! Join us for our virtual Laugh & Learn on Wednesday, August 2 at 2 pm. Join us for a presentation on the upcoming Llangarwik Chugachmiut Recovery Camp. Eydie Flygare will present. Contact sandrak@Chugachmiut.org for the Zoom link. Quyanaa/AwA’ahdah and see you soon!