Tag Archives: Kodiak Community Foundation

Chair on stage. (Photo byHernán Piñera / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT St. Mary’s School is putting together a venue for Kodiak residents to share their musical prowess, their tall tales, and their dance moves. The talent show will follow the example other communities in Alaska have set. Specifically, Sitka’s Monthly Grind. Jeff Budd from Sitka flew into Kodiak this week to …

Kodiak Mayor Pat Branson accepts a $25,000 donation from Skoda on behalf of the Kodiak Community Foundation. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Last year, the Kodiak Community Foundation received a donation from Czech car maker Skoda, and now they’re ready to select grantees. Last year, Skoda filmed a commercial in Kodiak for its SUV, Kodiaq with a q, and featured City Mayor Pat …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska Community Foundation, a nonprofit which donates to causes in its community locations, is hiring program managers for all of its branches, including Kodiak. Up until now, the Kodiak Community Foundation has been volunteer-based and under the guidance of its advisory board. According to Board Chair Ginny Austerman, the program managers were all hired about a month …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Nonprofit funding is one of three items on tonight’s Kodiak Island Borough Assembly work session agenda, and the assembly will consider a change in the borough’s nonprofit granting process. The assembly is at the beginning of its fiscal year 2017 grant discussion, and has not yet released grant applications, but it is thinking in the long-term. It’s looking …