Sitka APC Trust Open
For Grant Applications
By Sentinel Staff
The Sitka Alaska Charitable Trust is accepting applications for the 2022 round of grants for scientific, educational and social betterment.
Applications will be accepted through April 16. The website for applications is https://www.wellsfargo.com/private-foundations/sitka-alaska-permanent-charitable-trust
Grant awards are decided by the seven-member SAPCT Board of Advisers, which will meet at 5 p.m. May 18 in the Sitka High School library to hear presentations by grant applicants. The board will meet again on May 19 to review applications and make decisions on awards. Both meetings will be open to the public.
Applications are submitted online to a national web address of Wells Fargo Bank, which is the SAPCT trustee and fund manager. The bank is a conduit in the routing of applications to the trust’s board of advisers, but doesn’t have a role in deciding the awards, which are made under guidelines of the 1995 trust document.
The Sitka-based SAPCT board of has set the distribution amount for this year’s grants at $105,806, based on the fund’s asset value of $2,645,154 on Dec. 31, 2021.
Since 1995, when it was established by Alaska Pulp Corp., the SAPCT has been making annual grants to Sitka nonprofits and educational organizations, and continues to be the largest charitable foundation in Sitka.
In recent years Wells Fargo Bank, as trustee, has taken a more active role in the administration of the trust. One effect of that change has been to discontinue the process of the previous 25 years in which grant applications were submitted to a Sitka address. The SAPCT website www.sitkacharitabletrust.org is still up, and while information about the history and the mission of the trust are still available there, the dates for applications and awards are not current for this year.
Board president Thad Poulson said work is underway to update the site and provide an easily accessible link to the Wells Fargo application portal. In the meantime, Poulson said, questions can be addressed to him at thadpoulson@yahoo.com or by calling him at the Sitka Sentinel, 747-3219 weekdays.
‘Child Find’ Sets
Preschool Screening
Sitka School District provides Child Find Preschool Screenings for children ages 3-5 at Baranof Elementary School. An appointment is required for the Monday, March 21, screening. For more information, or to schedule one, parents should call 966-1316.
The Child Find program is provided without charge to families who live within school district boundaries.
The program identifies children who are having difficulty in their development, and provides special education services to them, when appropriate.
Parents may have concerns about their child’s development in the areas of hearing, vision, speech/language skills, motor skills, thinking skills or emotional or social skills.
Screenings will be held at least once per quarter, and those dates will be publicized. Additional appointments at other times or locations may be scheduled as needed.
