Founded in 1980, the Alaska Conservation Foundation is the only public foundation solely dedicated to conservation in Alaska, connecting thousands of committed donors and businesses worldwide with more than a hundred grassroots conservation organizations in Alaska.
Since the 1950s, Alaska’s economy has relied on boom and bust extractive industries. With industrial-scale logging, natural gas, and oil industries continuing to decline, Alaska is already beginning to invest heavily into a new era of boom and bust extraction in the form of industrial-scale mining for transition metals and minerals.
Mining and associated activities intersect with a variety of critical issues Alaskans are already facing. Most importantly, mining operations threaten critical subsistence resources and contribute to toxic air and water pollution that impact community health. Additionally, increased mining activity will expand the need for dirty energy to power mining operations and require the building of roads to access mining claims which would intersect critical salmon and other wildlife habitats.
Alaska Conservation Foundation has introduced the Alaska Mining Impacts and Prevention Fund to support grassroots and tribal efforts to address industrial-scale mining and associated activities across Alaska. Raising funds will allow us to fund efforts to protect our clean water, wild salmon, and ways of life in Alaska from run-away industrial-scale mining.
What will the Alaska Mining Impacts and Prevention Fund do?
Alaska Conservation Foundation’s Mining Fund will provide organizations and communities support in a variety of ways:
- Convenings for strategy development, coalition fostering, and further relationship building
- Organizing, mobilization, and communications support
- Travel for trainings, lobbying, and agency meetings
- Technical support such as water monitoring and/or legal support
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Information for Potential Applicants:
The Alaska Mining Impacts and Prevention Fund supports the Alaska Mining Impacts Network participants and their efforts to create and share resources, build relationships, foster collaboration, and strengthen advocacy efforts focused on the impacts of hardrock mining in Alaska.
The Alaska Mining Impacts Network envisions an Alaska where stewardship of the land is prioritized and where local communities have the power to ensure that mining and associated development happens only with their free, prior, and informed consent under rigorous protective policies and practices, enabling a future where the land, air, and water will continue to provide traditional and cultural livelihoods for present and future generations.
Applicants applying to address a specific mining issue should consider applying, but preference will be given to projects that address state-wide hardrock mining impacts holistically.
How to Apply:
All applicants should carefully review the Alaska Mining Impacts and Prevention Grant Guidelines before starting the application process. Please consider contacting ACF staff prior to applying to ensure your project is eligible: grants@alaskaconservation.org; 907-433-8213
