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Early this year, our board member Sara Hay let us know that she needed to leave the board for personal reasons. We will miss having her on the team, and we appreciate Sara's service! This vacancy meant that, as per our bylaws, the board needed…
Read more — Heather Pennington joins Museums Alaska boardIn this cycle, we awarded $159,597.94 to nine organizations. Thank you to all of our volunteer panelists! We couldn't do this without you. And, of course, thank you to our longtime funder and partner in these grant programs, Rasmuson Foundation. The impact they have had on…
Read more — Congratulations to our first 2024 AAF & CMF Grantees!Congratulations to our second round of Access to Alaska Native Collections grant recipients! Thank you to our amazing funders—The CIRI Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation! With their support, we were able to expand the grant program this cycle and award grants to eleven artists…
Read more — Congratulations to our latest AANC Grantees!We flew to Juneau on Tuesday, January 30 through Friday, February 2, for advocacy training and to meet with the offices of Alaska State Senators and Representatives. Check out our pictures on Facebook. What was the impetus of our fly-in? At some point in my…
Read more — Juneau Fly-In RecapThe Museums Alaska Board and Director will be traveling to Juneau from January 30 to February 2 to advocate for several field wide priorities. We will be reaching out to organizations for support letters in the near future. To make it as easy as possible,…
Read more — 2024 Advocacy PrioritiesWe're excited to announce that we will be moving from Wild Apricot to Salesforce, which will allow us to streamline our services and communications to members. Wild Apricot has been a wonderful platform for the last several years, but in order to grow, we felt…
Read more — New Database and WebsiteBeginning in 2024, we will be requiring all AAF and CMF applicants to be organizational members of Museums Alaska. This is a new requirement. As much as we would like to behave a like a foundation and award grants as a free service to our…
Read more — Changes to AAF & CMF GuidelinesWe haven’t raised our rates since 2015, but with the rising cost of doing business, we have made the difficult decision to raise them next year. Our new membership levels and rates beginning in January 2024 will be: Student: $0 Emerging Museum Professional (EMP): $25…
Read more — Increasing Our Member Rates in 2024