The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation will receive $30,000 for a capital projects endowment, plus another $100,000 spread across four years for other work.
Sammye Pokryfki, senior vice president of the Rasmuson Foundation, announced the allocation Monday to about 20 people at the Sheldon Museum.
While the $30,000 endowment grant is new, the $100,000 allocation is a renewal of a previous expired grant. The $100,000 is in matching funds. That means for every dollar that the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation raises, the Rasmuson Foundation will match that dollar up to $100,000.
“It definitely will be a challenge (to raise up to $100,000 locally),” said Anna Jurgeleit, co-chairwoman of the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation.
“We’ve made challenges in the past and we should reach this one,” added Crystal Badgley, the other co-chairwoman.
“This is a very successful community foundation,” said Nina Kemppel, president of the Alaska Community Foundation.
The Rasmuson Foundation is allocating $5 million over five years to the Alaska Community Foundation, which will manage the money’s distribution among local community foundations, including the one in Haines. Currently, the Alaska Community Foundation has nine affiliated local foundations, and plans to add six more.
Pokryfki and Kemppel met with Chilkat Valley representatives Monday to begin hammering out ground rules for the uses of the grant money, including setting up targets to measure the effectiveness of the appropriations.