Reminder: award nominations, youth art contest entries and youth representative applications due Aug. 14, 2014

Youth Art Contes
Keren A. Bennett, Inupiaq, 2013 First Place Award. Category: 9 to 12 years of age. Parent: Christine Katrina Bennett.

Shareholder of the Year, Elder of the Year and Youth Recognition Award Nominations

We need your help to recognize CIRI shareholders who have made incredible contributions to Alaska Native people, worked to preserve our culture and passed traditions and knowledge on to others.

There’s an entire generation of CIRI shareholder and descendant young people who are already making strides toward becoming tomorrow’s Alaska Native leaders, and we want to honor them, as well.

Help us celebrate their work by submitting a nomination to CIRI for the CIRI Shareholder and Elder Shareholder of the Year Awards and the Youth Recognition Award by 5 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time, August 14.

Visit ciri.com to learn more.

Youth opportunities 2014

Youth Representative position

CIRI is currently seeking applications from CIRI shareholders and descendants who are 13 to 17 years of age to fill the 2014 Shareholder Participation Committees (SPC) Youth Representative positions.

Youth representative applications and supporting materials must be received by CIRI by 5 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on August 14 to be considered.

Youth representative application packets can be downloaded and printed at ciri.com.

Youth Art Contest

For younger CIRI shareholders and descendants who are 5 to 12 years of age, we are pleased to host an annual art contest.

An interested CIRI shareholder or descendant who is 5 to 12 years of age may submit original artwork interpreting the theme “Cultural Diversity” and a completed entry form to CIRI by 5 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on August 14 to be entered in the 2014 Youth Art Contest. Winning entries will be displayed at the CIRI and The CIRI Foundation Friendship Potlatches this fall.

Youth Art Contest entry forms can be downloaded and printed at ciri.com.