Summer Arts Camps Bring Creativity to Seward Youth
From Paintbrushes to Performances: Two Summer Camps Bring the Arts to Seward & Moose Pass …
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May your holidays be filled with joy, togetherness, and a strong sense of community spirit. …
Nonprofit Highlight: Garden by the Bay
After five seasons, the Garden by the Bay has been a successful program that has impacted many. The plots provide interested community members with garden space, and some plots are set aside to grow vegetables…
A New Mural for Seward
n September, the Seward Arts Council received a $1,000 mini-grant for supplies for its “Seward’s Native Roots” 2022 mural project. The mural is a collaboration with the Qutekcak Native Tribe and Seward Mural Society and…
Benny Benson Hand-Sewn Flag to be Restored by Friends of the Library
riends of the Seward Library was awarded a major SCF grant of $4000 to restore one of the original hand-sewn Benny Benson flags. This flag was first presented to Mrs. Viola Swetmann, one of the…
Grant Highlight: Independent Living TRAILS Program
The Independent Living Center received a $4,000 grant through SCF’s 2021 competitive grant cycle for their TRAILS program. TRAILS, which stands for Total Recreation and Independent Living Services, offers year-round recreational opportunities for people who…
Grantee Highlight: Bunnell Street Arts Center Seavey Fund will support outdoor education and recreation.
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: Okaidja Afroso Ghanaian Culture and Music Residency Ghanaian Music Visits Seward, Alaska
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
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.
Grantee Highlight: Voice of Moose Pass
The Moose Pass Public Library received a $3,241 Major Grant from SCF's Unrestricted Fund to help produce two videos chronicling the Moose Pass community's history. The two videos tell of Moose Pass, an Alaska frontier…