CWN Food Security Study Group

Personal Use of Alaska’s Wildlife

Wednesday, September 11th

Alaska Village Initiatives
1577 C St
Suite 304

8am-9am

Wednesday morning, Tom Harris, CEO of Kniknatnu, Inc., and former CEO of Alaska Village Initiatives, will continue our study group’s discussion about the State’s food policy as is relates to cultural and personal use of Alaska’s wildlife resources by rural and indigenous Alaskans. Tom will discuss policies other states have implemented with private landowners that have increased wildlife resources and positively impacted food security in those states.

This is part of a series of meetings we are hosting on the personal use of Alaska’s wildlife resources as we work toward developing public policy recommendations for enhancing food security for Alaskans.

Date:

October 2nd, 2019

Time:

6pm-9pm reception at 5:30pm

Location:

Dena'ina Center

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Former recipients of the Hickel Award include: Walter Hickel, Ted Stevens, Jay Hammond, Don Young, John Katz, Willie Hensley, Lisa Murkowski, Tony Knowles, Frank Murkowski and Jim Jansen.

If you would like to sponsor a table or be recognized as a contributor, contact Jim Egan at (907) 258-9524, or exec@commonwealthnorth.org.

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Opportunities & Challenges of a Chugach Electric / ML&P Merger

Friday, August 23rd

noon-1pm

Alaska USA Federal Credit Union

500 W 36th Avenue

Mark’s PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded here.

Mark Foster, Principal at Mark A. Foster and Associates, will give us his analysis of the opportunities and challenges associated with the proposed acquisition of ML&P by Chugach Electric Association.

Mark is an engineer and management consultant. He has served as CFO and OMB Director for the Anchorage School District, board member for Alaska Power and Telephone and Anchorage Municipal Light & Power, Commissioner at the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, and lead engineer for the Fairbanks Municipal Utility System.

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Date:

August 21st, 2019

Time:

7:30am-8:30am

Location:

3301 C Street

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CWN Presents
The Value of Civic Education

August 21st
7:30am-8:30am

Breakfast
The Petroleum Club of Anchorage
3301 C Street

Video of this program is available online.

Commonwealth North welcomes Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to our August forum. He will discuss the value of civic education in growing our communities. For over thirty years, CWN’s mission has been to educate Alaskans on the critical issues facing our state and identify effective solutions. We believe it is essential that Alaskans are well informed and engage in the public arena to debate the policies that will create opportunities and improve the quality of life for Alaskans.

About the National Endowment for the Humanities

President Lyndon Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act in 1965 to support research, preservation, education, and public programs in the humanities. NEH has awarded more than 64,000 grants since 1965, totaling $5.5 billion, and has leveraged in today’s dollars nearly $4.1 billion in private matching donations. That public investment has led to the creation of books, films, museum exhibits, and online resources.

Jon Parrish Peede’s previous positions include publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) at the University of Virginia, literature grants director at the National Endowment for the Arts, counselor to NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, director of the NEA Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience program, director of the NEA Big Read program, director of communications at Millsaps College, and editor at Mercer University Press with a focus on the humanities. He has written speeches for a U.S. president, a first lady, and a librarian of Congress. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Vanderbilt University, and a master’s in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi.

Table sponsorships available

Contact the CWN office at (907) 258-9524 for details.