2010 AYEAAnnual Report

Mission: To inspire, educate and take action on environmental issues facing

our diverse communities

STATEWIDE ADVISORY

GROUP (SWAG)Elena Dolitsky, JuneauClaire Fordyce, Juneau

Lynn Fuller, PalmerAmanda Huff , Fairbanks

Joe Okitkun, KotlikJeff Sheakley, Kasaan

Tiaya Waggoner, PalmerOceana Wills, Homer

CHAPTERSAnchorage - Dillingham - Homer

Hooper Bay - Juneau - Seward Sitka - Palmer - Yakutat

AYEA STAFFMegan McBrideProgram Manager

mcbridem@ayea.org(907) 339-3907

Shannon KuhnProgram Coordinatorshannon@ayea.org

(907) 339-3910

Wiley CasonFundraising Coordinator

casonw@ayea.org(907) 339-3904

Nara McCrayMedia & Technology Intern

nara@ayea.org(907) 339-3908

Aviva HirschYouth Intern

aviva@ayea.org

Alaska Youth For Enviornmental Action is a Program of the National

Wildlife Federation

www.nwf.org

About AYEA: Six teenagers founded Alaska Youth for Environmental Action in 1998 because they wanted an organized, eff ective outlet for young Alaskans to become involved with environmental issues. Today, AYEA is a statewide program of the National Wildlife Federation with nine chapters in communities across the state and individual youth participants from over fi fty communities. AYEA teens meet our mission through visible community action projects; issues campaigns; and skills training in leadership, creative expression, problem-solving and community organizing.

Values: youth empowerment, sustainability, partnerships, cross-cultural education, respect, diversity

Table of ContentsLetter from AYEA Staff ........................3Trainings............................................4-5Map......................................................5Chapter Updates..............................6-7Quotes Page........................................8Awards................................................9Alumni Updates..................................9Green Jobs.........................................10Finances..............................................11Acknowledgments.............................11

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The rest of this report will be dedicated to the accomplishments and highlights from AYEA members, but fi rst the staff would like to introduce ourselves and share a few highlights from our vantage point, “behind the scenes.”

Megan McBride (‘03) has taken the role of Program Manager after working as AYEA’s Training Coordinator and Program Coordinator since 2007. Megan was a member of the Anchorage chapter from 2000-2003 and helped lead the Statewide Recycling Campaign.

Shannon Kuhn (‘05) stepped into the Program Coordinator role after serving as an Americorps VISTA with AYEA this fall. Shannon leads AYEA’s training events and provides support to chapters around the state. Shannon traveled to Japan with AYEA for the 2004 International Youth Eco-Forum, and attended both Powershift Conferences in Washington D.C. with AYEA graduates.

Wiley Cason (‘09) has been AYEA’s Fundraising Coordinator, leading a fundraising drive with individual donors this fall, reaching out to business supporters over the winter, and taking the lead role working with volunteers to plan AYEA’s 2010 Summer Fundraiser.

Joining AYEA staff this summer is Nara McCray (’09), who is working as our Media & Technology Assistant, managing the AYEA website, and designing this beautiful annual report!

It has been a busy year, and we’re looking forward to more in the years to come!

-Megan, Shannon, Wiley, and Nara

Youth have always been at the core of everything AYEA does. Teens design every training and every action project. The past year has marked an important milestone for AYEA. Graduates of the AYEA program are taking on a new role: we are the staff . 2010 marks the fi rst year that AYEA graduates make up the entire staff !

Some highlights from this year:

- New partnerships with the Alaska Coal Working Group and a more collaborative training model in the Youth Coal Summit

- Stronger relationships with rural communities through partnerships with

RurAL CAP, more emphasis on rural outreach, and a new chapter in Hooper Bay

(making a total of 9 chapters!)

- This was the fi rst year of AYEA graduates giving back as Major Donors

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A message from the AYEA staff

“I went from being a Youth Employment in Parks employee to

an active member of Alaska Youth for Environmental Action. AYEA has allowed me to have an increased appreciation for the natural world and more importantly take action to conserve. I am honored to be a part of the AYEA staff for the

summer and I am forever grateful for the leadership training and education I have

gotten as a member.” -Nara McCray

The 2009 Summer Training: Getting Creative About Climate Change brought together 17 teens from 11 diff erent communities across the state. We converged in Arctic Valley, high in the Chugach Mountains just north of Anchorage In July 2009. In addition to making new friends and learning about the diversity of cultures in Alaska, the group spent the week exploring issues of climate change, environmental justice,

renewable energy, and a c t i v i s m . Participants also studied two art forms: spoken-word poetry and digital storytelling. In one week, they created art pieces

in one of these forms, inspired by their personal connection to the environment and fueled by the environmental education sessions at the training. Part of AYEA and National Wildlife Federation’s intentions with our trainings is to connect teens to the environment and the outdoors. Teens who had never been camping before survived a whole week sleeping in tents in the (windy!) mountains. We hiked up

several nearby peaks, enjoying blueberries, wildfl owers, and awesome views of the Chugach and the Anchorage bowl. Partners included: Art in Action Alaska Conservation Alliance, Inner Stage Poetics.

Every year the Civics & Conservation Summit brings youth leaders to our state capital for a week of high-impact, fun, and adrenaline-pumping civic engagement lessons. Our March 2010 training brought together 23 high schoolers from 13 diff erent communities. The group learned how to communicate with elected offi cials, how to read a bill, and how to

impact decisions our leaders make about our environment and our lives. Teens were split into three groups

that each focused on an environmental legislative bill around: renewable energy, public transportation, or critical habitat designation for Cook Inlet belugas. Teens also attended skill sessions on media and messaging,

environmental justice, and defi ning sources of power and infl uence. The training ended with youth-led visits to state legislators to discuss environmental concerns and interests!

Trainings

“Wow! I learned so much from the

AYEA Civics Summit during spring break. Seriously, it

was amazing. I came home feeling empowered!”

-Freya Chay, Kenai

David Thurman, Dillingham, with Rep. Charisse Millett

AYEA teens high fi ve Senator Hollis French

AYEA teens were instrumental in

passing SB 220 the Alaska Sustainable Energy Act and HB 70 Farm to School

Program!

CIVICS & CONSERVATION SUMMIT

Check out digital stories on our

YouTube page! www.youtube.

com/user/AYEA4LIFE

GETTING CREATIVE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

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AYEA teens get outdoors in Arctic Valley

Partners included: Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Alaska Center for the Environment, and Alaska Conservation Alliance.

YOUTH COAL SUMMIT

Keeping Alaska’s coal in the ground is the single most important thing Alaska can do to stop climate change. There is a rapidly growing movement across Alaska to promote clean energy and prevent new coal development. The Alaska Coal Working Group, a coalition of organizations working on this issue, asked AYEA to partner on a Youth Coal Summit. AYEA youth overwhelmingly responded “Yes! We want to learn more about Coal in Alaska.” So we set to work, outreaching to communities that would be most impacted and fi nding a team of experts to talk about climate, ocean acidifi cation, human health, and environmental justice.

We held the summit in April 2010 at Hatcher Pass, and brought together 20 youth ages 13-18 from ten diff erent communities. We had a diversity of backgrounds and cultures represented—it was powerful hearing young commercial fi shermen from Homer and subsistence whalers from Point Lay share stories about how climate change is aff ecting their homes and way of life. Highlights from the weekend include a fi eld-trip to the proposed coal mine near Wishbone Hill and a great snowshoeing adventure. Participants

gained skills in analyzing complex issues, identifying solutions, and developing campaigns in response to coal’s environmental and health threats. Partners included: Cook Inletkeeper, Alaska Center for the Environment, and AlaskaCoal.org.

“Coal is going to destroy the world

if humans continue using it, burning it, and mining it like we do today” –Oceana

Wills, Homer

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Shyla (Point Hope) and Jackson (Bethel) in Hatcher Pass

The Yakutat AYEA chapter has worked hard this year to reduce the amount of plastic and paper waste in their community and to promote reusable alternatives. They launched two community projects promoting the use of reusable bags and cups at all the local stores: Bring Your Own Bag (BYOB), and Bring Your Own Coff ee Cup (BYOCC). Every time community members bring their own bag or

cup to the store they can enter their name for a monthly drawing for Eco-Friendly items. Their BYOB cloth bag campaign has yielded amazing results-- YAYEA kept 980 bags out of the waste stream this year! Adult Mentors: Mary Ann Porter and Denise Wiltse. Youth Chair: Make Monture.

“We hope to continue to promote

environmental change in our community! I know everyone can, and if we all chip in we CAN make

a diff erence!” - Maka Monture, Yakutat President

AYEA Chapter Updates

Rebels to the Pebble is a group of Dillingham youth who have been working to oppose the proposed Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay region for the last two years. Their goals are to educate themselves and others about Pebble Mine, and to promote environmental justice and Native Alaskan rights.The Rebels became an AYEA Chapter last year to learn about other environmental issues and to build communication with youth across the state. This year the Rebels to the Pebble successfully convinced Josten’s to sign the Bristol Bay Protection Pledge saying “no” to gold from Pebble Mine. They also organized an educational panel on Pebble Mine at their school and spoke about the issue in front of over 600 people at a national conference. Adult Mentor: Kathy McLinn. Youth Chair: Stacey Rolf.

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AYEA’s newest chapter, in Hooper Bay, was founded in spring of 2010. The “EcoWarriors” have partnered with their local IGAP offi ce to do local environmental education projects. Adult Mentor: Cate Koskey. Youth Chair: Kristi Joe.

HOOPER BAY

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AYEA chapters are the heart of our organization. Chapters form regional hubs of youth activity, led by teens and supported by local sponsor organizations and volunteer adult mentors. Chapters meet periodically throughout the year and plan their own local projects to respond to community issues and needs. Staff support both teens and adult mentors throughout the year with project planning tips and resources, as well as ongoing leadership opportunities to get involved in.

The Homer AYEA chapter has spent the past two years working on a Climate Change & Energy campaign. This fall they moved forward and worked with the local assembly to draft and submit

an Energy Chapter for the Homer Comprehensive Plan to the Homer Planning Commission. Ten HAYEA teens testifi ed before the entire city council, and the City of Homer agreed to include the Energy Chapter in their Comprehensive Plan! As part of their campaign, teens were also interviewed on why they care about clean energy by Repower America. Adult Mentors: Kyra Wagner, Nina Faust, Francie Roberts. Youth Chair: Oceana Wills.

HOMER

MEAYEA is a local chapter at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka, made up of AYEA members from over ten diff erent communities across Alaska. Teens discuss current environmental concerns from Sitka to St. Paul, Bethel to Point Hope. MEAYEA manages a recycling program at MEHS that includes the construction of large bins for recycling plastics and a system to dispose of the school’s fl uorescent light bulbs. MEAYEA has disposed of over 300 of these bulbs in a way that does not release toxins, such as mercury, into the environment. MEAYEA also sponsors a campus-wide “Week-Without-Plastics” and designed organic cotton bags as an alternative to using plastic bags. (Over 100 MEAYEA bags have already been sold.) Adult Mentor: Michael Hay. Youth Chair: Lydia Agnus.

The main focus of the Anchorage chapter this year was f igur ing out a way to reduce the use of plastic bags in Anchorage. Throughout the y e a r A A Y E A researched what other places around the world

have done to try to reduce the use of plastic bags (both what worked and what didn’t work), and facts about what eff ect plastic bags have on our environment. From this research they decided that the most eff ective way to reduce the use of plastic bags in Anchorage would be to impose a plastic bag tax and encourage the use of reusable bags. In pursuit of this goal, AAYEA wrote a petition to gain support for the reduction of plastic bags, and set a goal to collect over 1,000 signatures by the end of the summer. In the fall they are planning on presenting their signatures and draft plastic bag tax ordinance to the Anchorage Assembly. Adult Mentors:

Jamie Shearer, Jed Smith. Youth Chair: Kelsey Harmon.

The Palmer AYEA chapter moved forward on their Sustainable School Campaign this year, and is pushing for replacing disposable products with reusable ones such as metal silverware and plastic trays, and advocating for an increase in local food products served in their cafeteria. Right now PAYEA has completed a fi nal draft proposal of their campaign and successfully captured their school administration’s attention. They are on the agenda to present in front of their district’s school board

on August 4th, 2010. For future goals they hope to have successfully completed a cost-benefi t analysis done by the end of 2010. Adult Mentors: Liz H o d g e s - S y d e r , Margret Adsit. Youth Chairs: Sam Dinges, Fabian Bean.

Juneau AYEA has been working non-stop on their Reusable Silverware campaign for a year and a half, and their hard work has paid off ! NANA Management Services, who runs the Juneau-Douglas High School Food Services, agreed to transition from plastic disposable silverware to REUSABLE metal silverware! The switch happened this spring, complemented with JAYEA doing education about the switch and why it is more eco-friendly. The Juneau City Council even presented them with an award on Earth Day! Adult Mentors: Claire Fordyce, Rob Cadmus, Russel Stigall. Youth Chair: Elena Dolitsky.

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MT. EDGECUMBE HIGH SCHOOL/SITKA

SEWARDThe Seward AYEA chapter consists of a group of 20 rockstar middle school students! This year they did activities led by veteran AYEA teen Holly Ganser ranging from decorating AYEA reusable bags to the Recycle Olympics. Three Seward youth attended the Coal Summit this spring, although they had a record 13 applicants!

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“PAYEA hopes

to make the change that

will start a trend of

healthy eating and healthy

learning in our school.”

PALMER

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PAYEA present their “Sustainable Schools” Campaign at the Alaska Forum on the

Environment’s Youth Track

“I use my voice to help contribute to

changes that I want in the community by talking to those who can help me to make them a reality.”

- Justice Sky, Homer

How AYEA youth use their voices

Fabian Pete, Stebbins (Civic and Conservation Summit 2010)

“I use my voice to call birds and

sing Eskimo songs to keep our culture alive.” -Fabian Pete, Stebbins

“I see the youth becoming

a regular part of city decisions and interactions and

having a respected voice within their

communities.” -Natalie Sattler, Sitka,

Adult MentorTyonek youth at the 2010 Coal Summit

Coal Summit 2010

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“I use my voice to protect the

wilderness that I love.” -Joseph

Ransdell-Green, Fairbanks

Beverly Nakarak, Elim and Ana Delmys Sokimi, Anchorage Civics and Conservation Summit 2010

AYEA teens have received over 50 national, state, and local awards in the past, including the President’s Environmental Youth Award! Here are a few awards AYEA teens won this year for their outstanding work:

Megan Waggoner, Palmer/Sitka, was the 2009 Winner of the Alaska Conservation Foundation Denny Wilcher Award for Young Environmental Activists! AYEA teens have won the Denny Wilcher Award from ACF 11 out of the past 12 years!

Oceana Wills of Homer won the Spirit of Youth Award, Business and Government Category. She also won the 2010 Denny Wilcher Award from ACF. Oceana was the President of the Homer AYEA Chapter this year.

Zoe Fuller of Palmer won the Spirit of Youth Award, Science and Environment Category. Zoe co-founded the Mat-Su chapter for AYEA, spearheading the R3: ReThink Plastics campaign.

Freya Chay of Kenai claimed top honors and a $1,500 cash prize at the annual Caring for the Kenai environmental awareness competition. She wrote an amendment to the Alaska Sustainable Energy Act, SB 220 allowing local governments to exempt alternative energy systems from real property tax. (It passed and now it’s part of the law!)

Girla Sorensen, Dillingham, was the statewide grand-prize winning essayist for the Alaska Association of Bilingual Education’s annual essay contest on the theme “I’m proud to be an Alaskan and bilingual.” She is also a Nominee for 2010 Brower Youth Award for her work with “Rebels to the Pebble,” the Dillingham AYEA Chapter.

- Verner Wilson III (Dillingham, ‘04) - Outreach Coordinator, Nunamta Aulukestai ‘Caretakers of Our Lands’. Brown ‘08 graduate in Environmental Studies. - Sasha Stortz (Sitka, ‘03) - U.S. Institute for Environmental Confl ict Resolution. Lewis & Clark graduate and Morris K. Udall Scholar - Heather Benz (Anchorage, ‘06) - Stanford University graduate in Earth Systems; Past Intern with the Stanford Offi ce of Sustainability - Jeff Sheakley (Kasaan, ‘03) - Environmental Planner/Watershed Coordinator, Organized Village of Kasaan - Tim Treuer (Anchorage, ‘06) - Harvard graduate in Evolutionary Biology - Jonas Parker (Sitka, ‘01) - Hydrologist, Oregon Bureau of Land Management; Masters in Natural Resources from University of Idaho - Elsa Sebastian (Petersburg, ‘08) - Wellesley College 2012; Greenpeace Organizing Term participant

Copenhagen, Dec. 2009 – Anna Barnwell and Sam Hoeffl er attended the COP15 Climate Change Negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark and reported back to AYEA about their experience.

“AYEA was a wonderful experience, socially,

educationally, and personally. AYEA is so important for the

young people of Alaska, I hope it continues for years

and years to come.” -Eli Evans Anchorage, ‘06

Awards

AlumniThis year, AYEA Staff decided to focus more on connecting with program graduates. We created an AYEA Alumni Network email list and an “AYEA fo’ Life” Facebook Group. Our goals are to continue to support AYEA teens after they graduate from high school, connect them with green job opportunities in Alaska, and continue to strengthen our network

as we grow older. Below we have highlighted some of the AYEA grads that are doing amazing things and who are entering leadership positions in the environmental community.

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In 2007, AYEA’s Statewide Advisory Group added “Green Jobs” as a focus area for AYEA’s strategic plan. In the past 3 years, “Green Jobs” has become a national movement, shaping training programs and policy initiatives from small communities to the President’s cabinet. Here in Alaska, AYEA continues to push for Green Jobs, job training, and career awareness for young people.

The Youth Employment in Parks program, which we co-created with the Parks & Recreation Department of the Municipality of Anchorage and the Park Foundation, is kicking off its fourth summer in 2010.

Green Jobs

“What do Green Jobs look like?”- Support Local Economies- Provide pathways out of poverty- Promote a healthy environment; fi ght climate change- Dispell the myth that a strong economy and healthy environment are mutually exclusive

“AYEA was tremendously helpful in increasing

our outreach around the state for our conservation internship

program. It defi nitely yielded the results we were hoping

for.” - Danielle Williams, Alaska Conservation Foundation

“This summer in YEP I learned a

lot. I think that the most memorable would have to be how we have an

impact on urban creeks. This is most meaningful

and memorable because I love fi shing and it

taught me what I can do to keep the rivers and

creeks we fi sh in clean.” -Caitlin McAlpine

In the last 3 years, the YEP program has

employed about 140

youth leaders, engaging them

with their environment and the Anchorage community

through meaningful employment, training, and

outdoor recreation.

This year AYEA has expanded our Green Jobs focus to include: - Promoting youth internships with green businesses and organizations - Providing the “big picture context” for energy effi ciency awareness in rural Alaska through the EnergyWise youth job program with RurAL CAP - Developing a career connections curriculum for youth in weatherization training programs - Advocating for SB 150 to establish an Emerging Energy Technology Fund, which will promote job growth and training opportunities in alternative energies. The Alaska legislature passed this bill as part of the Omnibus Energy Bill in 2010

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Youth Employment in Parks 2008

Acknowledgments

Individual Donors: Alexei Painter, Alice Dillman, Andrea Sanders, Andrew Thomas, Ann & Scott Hinkley, Barbara Hood & Dirk Sisson, Barbara Tauanuu, Becky Judd, Beth Nordlund, Beverly Churchill, Bob and Tenzing Briggs, Bob Doll, Caren Moss, Dan & Cathy Gleason, Demian Schane, Donna Mears, Dorothy and Howard Lazar, Elizabeth Shapland, F.J. Adams, Faith Allard, Frank Gwartney, Representative Harry Crawford, H. Clifton Eames, Jr., Jack Lentfer, Jay Marvin and Sigrid Brudie, Jeff and Susan Sloss, Joe Banta, Joseph and Joan Sebastien, Karen Kelly, Kiel Renick, Kim Corrette, Kim Wetzel, Kristen Romanoff , Lucy Hansen, Marisa Jaso, Margaret Arend, Mark Hansen, Marne Lastufk a, Martha Levensaler, Marti Thornton, Megan McBride, Michael and Alberta Gardner, Michael Dunning, Michael Jensen, Michael Music, Mikayla Sait, Nina Faust, Olivia S. Sineuko, Otto Gilbert, Pam Miller, Pat Lavin and Stacey Marz, Patricia Benz, Patricia Boyer, Peg Tileston, Nils Andreassen, Representative Bob Herron, Representative Carl Gatto, Mark and Luke Gnadt, Representative Cathy Munoz, Representative Les Gara, Representative Paul and Tina Seaton, Rob and Claire Sadowniczak, Robert Archibald and Roberta Highland, Robert Shavelson, Ruby Sokimi, Russell Stigall & Amanda Fisher, Ruth Danner, Sagato Pelenato, Sarana Schell, Shannon Kuhn, Sharon Cissna, Sheryl S. Salasky, Steve Pratt, Tricia Waggoner, Van Waggoner, Vasati Ieremia

Volunteers: Alexis King, Alli Harvey, Amy Lee, Ana Sokimi, Andre Camara, Aviva Hirsch, Brian Lyke, Cate Koskey, Cha’ron McCray, Claire Fordyce, Claire Johnson, Dan Lesch, Demian Schane, Denise Wiltse, Donna Mears, Elena Dolitsky, Francie Roberts, Jamie Shearer, JAYEA youth, Jedediah Smith, Jerelyn Miyashiro, Johnathan, Justice Sky, Kale Brewer, Karen Wilson, Kathy McClinn, Kiel Renick, Russell Stigall, Kristen Romanoff , Krystal Meuleners, Kyra Wagner, LaTierre Eady, Liz Hodges-Snyder, Margaret Adsit, Mark Gnadt, Brian Hirsch, Michael Hay, Michele Whaley, Nara McCray, Nils Andreassen, Nina Faust, Rob Cadmus, Robyn Brown, Russell Stigall, Sasha Vale, Shyla Tipelman, Sue Gullufsen, Tricia Waggoner, Van Waggoner, Zoe Fuller

Businesses: A & P Market, Agnew::Beck Consulting, AK Starfi sh Co., Anchorage School District, Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Arctic Organics, Bear Tooth, Bristol Bay Native Association, Circular, Coastal Villages Region Fund, Copper Whale Inn, Crush, Denali Citizens Council, Dos Manos, Fire Island Bakery, Fred Meyer, Glacier Seafood, Great Harvest, Greenraising, Happy Salmon Designs, Heritage Cafe, Jerry’s Meat & Seafood, Kenai City Council, King Career Center, Midnight Sun Brewing Co., Moose’s Tooth Brewery, MiddleWay Café, Mexico In Alaska, Kaladis, Fiona Master’s Ski Lesson, REI, Native Village of Elim, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Nunamta Aulukestai, Polynesian Association of Alaska Inc., Rainbow Foods, Sack’s Cafe & Restaurant, Second Run, Seward Sea Life Center, Snow City Cafe, Specialty Imports, Spenard Roadhouse, Stebbins Village Community Association, Sunny Cove Sea Kayaking, US Fish & Wildlife Service

Foundations: Alaska Conservation Foundation, Brainerd Foundation, Common Stream, Paul Allen Family Foundation, Skaggs Foundation, Juneau Community Foundation

Major Donors: Amanda Huff , Caroline Plant, Claire Fordyce, Deborah Williams, Florian and Erin Borowski, Karen McBride, Polly Carr, Rika and John Mouw, Stacy Studebaker, Thomas Rentz

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The current economic recession has been especially challenging for social service organizations. Over the past few years, the AYEA program has seen a decline in revenue, especially from foundation grants, and we’ve had to make signifi cant budget cuts in response. This has forced us to reevaluate our priorities as a program and be more creative about raising money. AYEA has seen a big increase in in-kind support from tribal councils and regional native organizations providing travel scholarships for local teens. Our air miles-donation program has also provided critical scholarships to teens without local resources to pay for their travel. Contributions from individual donors remains our most consistent reliable source of support. Thank you!

Financial Snapshot

All the trainings, programs, and youth support that AYEA off ers are funded through generous donations and grants. In this time

of economic hardship, your donations are extremely important to help AYEA conduct our trainings, programs, and youth support. You can contribute to AYEA with donations of your time, money, or Alaska Airline miles.

“AYEA has helped me realize that although I’m not old

enough to vote, I have a say in the issues facing our society, and an

impact on my community.” -Kate Backstrum, Anchorage

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AYEA Mission: To inspire, educate and take action

on environmental issues facing our

communities.