Alaska Marine Safety

Education Association

2011 AMSEA Mini-Grant Program

On December 1, 2010 – for the ninth consecutive year – AMSEA awarded mini-grants to help fund cold-water and boating safety training and education projects in Alaska.

These grants are intended to increase or enhance safety training and education for high-risk groups such as such as rural residents. The funds are available to any organization or business desiring to offer boating safety or cold-water safety training, taught by AMSEA-trained educators and instructors, which meets the criteria as outlined in the 2011 grant guidelines.

Although the 2011 mini-grant application period is now closed, you may visit the 2011 Request for Proposals page to learn more about how these grants were awarded. Mini-grant proposals will next be solicited late in 2011 or early in 2012.

THE 2011 GRANTEES:

Alaskan Dream Ventures – $3,100.00

For AMSEA instructor Rob Hulse to conduct cold-water safety training for children in the Anchorage School District as well as to provide a train-the-trainer workshop for schoolteachers wishing to offer cold-water safety education to their students.

Haines Swimming Pool - $2,932.36

To provide cold-water safety training for Haines, AK school children in grades kindergarten through eight.

Ilisagvik College - $2,500.00

To offer Survival Equipment, Procedures and Onboard Drills training for residents of Point Hope and Point Lay as well as to provide cold-water safety training for Point Lay school children.

Klukwan School, Chatham School District– $585.00

For AMSEA instructors RaeAnn Galasso and Patricia Peters to provide cold-water safety training for all students enrolled at Klukwan School.

Ravens Circle Consulting – $2,030.00

For AMSEA instructor Jeanne Boyle to provide boating safety training for 5 to 20-year olds in Circle, AK and Venetie, AK as a part of the Circle Summer School Program.

Seldovia Village Tribe – $2,727.00

For AMSEA instructors Anna Borland-Ivy and Alix Chartier to provide a Boating Without the Boys class for at least 12 women.

Southeast Island School District – $2,892.0

For AMSEA instructor Cheryl Fecko and others to provide boating safety training for all school children in Edna Bay, AK and Coffman Cove, AK.

Winter Blues – $1,975.00

For AMSEA instructor Anna Borland-Ivy to provide boating and cold-water safety training for the 7th grade students at Homer Middle School.

See a list of past AMSEA mini-grant award winners.

Reporting forms and requirements
for 2011 grantees

• Explanation of mini-grant reporting requirements and reimbursement procedures
• Pre-course reporting form for quick online reporting
• Request for reimbursement form print, fill out and mail or fax
• Final mini-grant report form print, fill out and mail or fax
• Course roster and post-course reporting form print, fill out and mail or fax
• Post-course reporting form for quick online reporting
• Instructor's course evaluation form print, fill out and mail or fax
• Instructor's course evaluation form for quick online submission

AMSEA mini-grants are made available thanks to funding from
the State of Alaska
Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development
Division of Community Advocacy