The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority

December 15, 2003

 

 

Welcome to this List Serv sponsored by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s Rural Funding Coordination Project.  These messages provide information about current government and private grants, conference and training opportunities, publications, and potential funding sources, with an emphasis on rural Alaska.

 

The State Division of Juvenile Justice is soliciting Non-Secure Attendant Care Shelter Provider Agreements for Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.  The purpose of this program is to provide short-term, staff-secure placements for youth.  The target population is youth under the age of 18 who have been arrested or taken into protective custody due to intoxication or mental illness.  Available funding is limited.  There is no deadline.  For more information, call 907-465-3855 or visit www.hss.state.ak.us.

 

The State Office of Children’s Services is requesting proposals to provide mentoring services for youth in state custody.  Services provided through this grant must comply with the Federal Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.  The deadline is January 5.  For more information, contact Diana Stevens at 907-465-4823 or visit www.hss.state.ak.us.

 

The Administration for Native Americans provides funding to Native Americans, including Alaska Natives, for a broad range of economic and social development, and governance projects, as well as environmental regulatory enhancements projects, and language preservation planning and implementation projects.  Grants must support locally determined and designed projects that address community needs and goals.  For more information, call 202-690-7776 or visit www.acf.dhhs.gov.

 

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation supports health and human service programs, including shelters for homeless and abused women with children.  There is no deadline.  For more information, contact Courtney Latta at 702-804-6000 or visit www.dwreynolds.org.

 

The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation provides grants to organizations that improve the education of health professionals.  They fund projects that will increase diversity among health care professionals, and educational strategies to increase care for underserved populations.  They also focus on projects that demonstrate or encourage ways to increase teamwork between and among health care professionals.  There is no deadline.  For more information, contact June Osborn at 212-486-2424 or visit www.josiahmacyfoundation.org.

 

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company provides grants to nonprofit organizations in communities along the pipeline corridor, and where Alyeska employees live and work.  Their mission is to provide for the emotional and physical well being of children, and strengthen families, especially those most in need.  There is no deadline.  For more information, contact Janie Leask at 907-787-8565 or visit www.alyeska-pipe.com.

 

Bookkeeping Basics: What Every Nonprofit Bookkeeper Needs to Know helps organizations safeguard their assets and make decisions about programs.  This guide provides detailed instructions for setting up and maintaining financial records.  It explains how to record transactions and then summarize the information to help staff and board members assess the group’s financial well being.  A table lists the documents that should be retained, along with ideas on organizing them.  Sample records and statements are provided throughout the book.  The cost is $22.  For more information, call 651-659-6024 or visit www.wilder.org.

 

The Foraker Group is dedicated to assisting nonprofits strengthen their organizations in a variety of ways, including board and staff trainings.  Foraker is offering the following workshops:

 

December 16 – 8:30 to 5:30 - Proposal Writing – Juneau

January 5 – 1:00 to 5:00 – Advanced Human Resources – Fairbanks

January 8 – 3:00 to 5:00 – Employee Retention – Anchorage

January 21 – 11:00 to 1:00 – Human Resources – Juneau

February 4 – 1:00 to 5:00 – Beginning Human Resources - Palmer

 

For more information or to register, contact Karma Tomlinson at 907-743-1205 or visit www.forakergroup.org.

 

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority's Small Projects Funding program is designed to create new services of direct benefit to Trust beneficiaries.  These services are not normally funded by another part of government. They can be

innovative, new program ideas, or substantially improve and supplement existing activities.  They can also significantly increase the quality of ongoing projects.  Each small project is limited to a maximum of $10,000. The intent is to spend

half of the Small Projects Fund ($250,000 yearly) on high quality rural projects.

The deadlines are February 1, June 1 and October 1.  For more information,

call 907-269-7960 or visit www.mhtrust.org. If you are a rural program and

would like technical assistance, please contact Thea Agnew at 907-222-5424.

 

The beneficiaries of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority include those Alaskans experiencing mental illness; developmental disabilities; chronic alcoholism; or Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia.  You can learn more about the Trust at www.mhtrust.org.

 

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority funds The Foraker Group to offer free technical assistance to those organizations that provide services for Trust beneficiaries in rural areas.  For more information, contact Thea Agnew at 907-222-5424 or thea@agnewbeck.com.

 

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