CRCD awarded $1 million USDA grant
September 30, 2019
The ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ of Rural and Community Development was awarded a $1 million collaborative
grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Alaska Native-Serving
and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program to promote
educational equity that strengthens and sustains Alaska Native and Rural Alaskan communities.
"Strengthening Alaska Native Stewardship" projects include:
- ethnobotany (Kuskokwim ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ)
- high latitude range management (Northwest ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ)
- food security and sovereignty (Chukchi ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ)
- environmental science and sustainable energy (Bristol Bay ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ)
- tribal stewardship (Interior Alaska ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ)
Together, CRCD campuses will collaborate to enhance capacity for local food and energy security; increase access to innovative place-based programs in the food, agricultural, natural resources and human sciences; and advance leadership in resource stewardship and civics.
Visit the for more information or email Tammi Burns at teburns@alaska.edu.