Grantee Highlight: Seward Nordic Ski Club Win-Win partnership to support healthy outdoor competition and local businesses.

Comments Off | February 27, 2021

The Seward Nordic Ski Club solved how to promote healthy outdoor competition while supporting local businesses in the world of COVID-19. MaryLynn Barnwell approached Seward Community Foundation with the idea entitled Seward Skis for Small…

Grantee Highlight: Seward Homeless Connection Seavey Fund will support outdoor education and recreation.

Comments Off | February 16, 2021

This year Seward Community Foundation provided $10,000 in two allocations to the Homeless Connection, a non-profit organization working to provide stable housing and help to cover the costs of basic living needs in the Seward…

Grantee Highlight: Bunnell Street Arts Center Seavey Fund will support outdoor education and recreation.

Comments Off | February 4, 2021

Bunnell Street Arts Center received a $1,000 mini-grant for their Seward Artists in the Schools Program. The program places professional artists in K-12 classrooms for residencies in Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD) schools. It…

Grantee Highlight: Seward Sports Association A new website streamlines registration.

Comments Off | January 28, 2021

The Seward Sports Association is a community-based program that promotes sports and recreational opportunities for local adult residents. The SSA was awarded a $720 grant to expand its web-based infrastructure. Before the grant, SSA maintained…

Grantee Highlight: Seward TYC It's good to be a kid!

Comments Off | January 21, 2021

Every year the Seward Teen Youth Center provides enrichment summer camp opportunities for local youth. In the summer of 2019, the TYC had an ambitious goal of taking Seward and Moose Pass youth to many…

SCF Receives $210,000! Rasmuson Foundation and Alaska Community Foundation Provide Affiliate Support

Comments Off | January 18, 2021

SCF earned a generous 1:1 match from the Rasmuson Foundation and Alaska Community Foundation as part of the Affiliate Program between 2017 and 2020. The match was designed to encourage ACF's state-wide Affiliate Program fundraising…

Grantee Highlight: Kids to Slopes 2020 A day on the slopes creates an opportunity to build self confidence.

Comments Off | January 16, 2021

“It was great. Before, I was afraid to ski with my family and older sisters, but now I know I can do as well. I can go all the way to the top!” Another said,…

Grantee Highlight: Okaidja Afroso Ghanaian Culture and Music Residency Ghanaian Music Visits Seward, Alaska

Comments Off | January 7, 2021

The Seward PTA received a $1,000 mini-grant to bring Ghanaian musician and cultural ambassador Okaidja Afroso to Seward for a week to conduct an artist residency at Seward Elementary School. His workshop, titled Dancing Feet…

A New Fund to Celebrate a One-Hundreth Birthday The Ralph and Anne Hatch Fund for Art, Music, and Education

Comments Off | December 21, 2020

The Seward Community Foundation is pleased to announce that in honor of Anne Hatch’s 100th Birthday her family has opened the Ralph and Anne Hatch Family Arts, Music and Education Fund.

Seward Prevention Coalition Sews PPE Grant Highlight: A Community Effort to Provide PPE