ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – In a packed Hotel Captain Cook ballroom lined with Alaska Native art, the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation outlined its plan to sustain its mission of providing Alaska Native storytelling to the city and state during the annual Native Art Auction Gala.
The plan, dubbed “Koahnic 2030,” focused on increasing the corporation’s sources of funding in the wake of federal and state cuts to public media.
“I feel really optimistic with our plan for 2030,” Koahnic president and CEO Jaclyn Sallee said at the gala. “That is because of the people that are here this evening that are contributing to public media and the initiative to raise individual funds from individuals, but also to create a more self-sustaining plan to not be so dependent on one funder.”…