By Sentinel Staff
The Sitka Alaska Permanent Charitable Trust board of advisers met Wednesday night to make decisions on grants totaling $98,423 to 13 Sitka nonprofits and educational institutions.
The trust’s seven-member advisory board, all Sitka residents, makes annual grants from the investment income of an endowment fund, presently $2.4 million.
Grants awarded:
Sitka High Science Department $20,533
Sitka Sound Science Center $18,667
Pacific High School Science $10,702
3 to 5 Preschool $6,000
Sitka Fine Arts Camp $8,000
Brave Heart Volunteers $7,817
Dolly Parton Imagination Library $3,158
Sitka High School DDF $952
Outer Coast $6,304
Sitka Trail Works $5,583
SAFV $2,108
SAIL $6,417
Transition Sitka $2,182
The SAPCT was founded in 1994 by Alaska Pulp Corp. in the settlement of an environmental lawsuit that set up a $3 million endowment for grants to Sitka schools and nonprofits for science, education, the arts, and community betterment.
Under the terms of the trust, decisions on the annual grant awards are made by an advisory board consisting of the principal of Sitka High School, the director of NSRAA, the editor of the Sitka newspaper, the president of Sheldon Jackson College (a seat now assigned to the director of UAS Sitka Campus), the commanding officer of USCG Air Station Sitka, the president of the Sitka High School student body, and a former Sitka mayor chosen by the other members.
