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From: Doyon Foundation <[email protected]> Subject: News from Doyon Foundation Date: September 8, 2014 9:25:13 PM AKDT To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Visit our blog September 2014 Information Email [email protected] Website www.doyonfoundation.com Address 615 Bidwell Ave., In this issue Suite 101 Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 $105,000 Raised at 2014 Golf Classic The 14th annual Morris Thompson Memorial Golf Classic took place Phone June 12 and 13 at the Chena Bend Golf Course on Fort Wainwright 907.459.2048 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Read more Toll free Diverse Group Gathers for Signs of the Land Climate Change 1.888.478.4755, ext. 2048 Camp In late July 2014, a diverse and intergenerational group of 22 individuals, including shareholders and a handful of Elders, came Doris Miller together at Howard Luke's Galee'ya Camp by the Tanana River in Executive Director Fairbanks to talk about climate change and its impacts on local communities. Read more Maurine Isaacson Scholarship Program Doyon Foundation Forms Languages Partnership Manager Doyon Foundation and Transparent Language, Inc. recently announced the Doyon Foundation 7000 Partnership. Read more Malinda Chase Language Revitalization Doyon Foundation Student Profile: Peter Hjelm Program Director Peter Hjelm of Stevens Village was recently named the 2014 $3,000 Sunnyboy Memorial Competitive Scholarship recipient. Read more Elias Saylor Joined Foundation as FAI Summer Intern Scholarship Deadlines Elias Saylor joined Doyon Foundation as a summer intern with the March 15 Language Revitalization Program. Read more Scholarship Type: Basic 2014 Graduate Yearbook Available Online Semester: Summer Congratulations to the class of 2014! Meet this year's graduates, including high school, certificate, associate's, bachelor's and April 15 master's students, in the 2014 edition of the Doyon Foundation Scholarship Type: graduate yearbook, available on our website. Read more Basic and Competitive Semester: Fall Foundation Earns $367 in Fred Meyer Donations This summer, 24 supporters helped Doyon Foundation earn $367 - November 15 just by shopping at Fred Meyer! Simply by linking their Fred Meyer Scholarship Type: rewards card to Doyon Foundation, and using their card with they Basic shop, shoppers have nearly funded an entire basic part-time Semester: Spring scholarship for a deserving student. Read more Thank You to Our Donors We would like to take a moment to recognize the generous individuals and companies that have supported Doyon Foundation's efforts recently. Read more Native Word of the Month As part of our vision to provide a strong demonstration of Native traditional language and culture, Doyon Foundation is pleased to present a Native Word of the Month. Read more Foundation is on Facebook Are you on Facebook? So are we! Read more Find Student Opportunities on Our Blog Have you visited the Doyon Foundation blog? Read more $105,000 Raised at 2014 Golf Classic The 14th annual Morris Thompson Memorial Golf Classic took place June 12 and 13 at the Chena Bend Golf Course on Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska. A total of 32 four- member teams participated in the event, which raises scholarship funds for Doyon Foundation students. The event netted more than $105,000 for the Foundation's Morris Thompson competitive scholarship fund. Congratulations to this year's winning teams, including the first place winners, Team Carlile, which walked away with $5,000 in winnings, and their Calcutta team buyer, CIRI President and CEO Sophie Minich. The Calcutta, held Thursday evening at the Wedgewood Resort, featured a live auction. Thank you to all who participated, especially the auction winners: 2014 U.S. Open Golf Bag: Woody Wallis, $300 Anchorage Golf Vacation: Jim Adams, $600 Fairbanks Golf Course Package: Jay Sadler, $800 Peppermill Hotel Package in Reno, Nevada: John Hendrix, $2,000 Student speaker and scholarship recipient, Nadine Carroll, also addressed attendees at the 2014 Calcutta. Read a transcript of her speech on our website. Our sponsors have made the Morris Thompson Memorial Golf Classic a successful annual event, and our largest fundraiser of the year. We also extend a special thank you to the individuals who volunteered their time to help make the 2014 classic such a success. Visit our website to see the list of sponsors and volunteers who supported the 2014 event. With the support of our golfers and sponsors, we are pleased to have awarded $49,000 in Morris Thompson scholarships for the 2013-2014 school year. See a list of recipients on our website. The 15th annual classic will take place June 18 - 19, 2015 in Fairbanks. If the past couple years are any indicators, sponsorships and golfer registrations will fill quickly, so be sure to watch for details next spring and confirm your participation early. Diverse Group Gathers for Signs of the Land Climate Change Camp In late July 2014, a diverse and intergenerational group of 22 individuals, including shareholders and a handful of Elders, came together at Howard Luke's Galee'ya Camp by the Tanana River in Fairbanks to talk about climate change and its impacts on local communities. Over a period of four days, the Signs of the Land Climate Change Camp wove together traditional knowledge, local observations, Native language, and climate science through a mix of storytelling, presentations, dialogue, and hands-on, community-building activities. Part of Columbia University's Polar Learning and Responding (PoLAR) Climate Change Education Partnership, the Signs of the Land Climate Change Camp was developed and conducted collaboratively by multiple partners, including Doyon Foundation, the Association of Interior Native Educators (AINE), the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center (IARC), and the Gwich'in Steering Committee, to test a model for engaging indigenous communities in the co-production of climate change knowledge, communication tools, and solutions-building. This camp adapted the model developed several years ago under the AINE's Elder Academy. Participants in the camp included Elders - Traditional Chief Trimble Gilbert and wife Mary, Howard Luke, Berkman and Sarah Silas, Roy David and Sam Demientieff - along with classroom teachers, local resource managers and leaders, rural community members, and climate scientists. Supported by the Doyon Foundation's Language Revitalization Program, linguist Siri Tuttle worked individually with Elder Native language speakers to collect and document language about the land. In many cases, Elders' observations about the environment pre-date scientific records in Alaska, and their knowledge can help to inform climate change research. Their knowledge and concepts embedded in the language can also provide insight on how to adapt to changing conditions. Always being prepared was a message that Elders clearly emphasized during the camp. Memorable moments of the camp included listening to "phenomenal elders," says participant Sharon Attla, "who help us remember the importance of Elders, the land, climate and the very deep tie to all that we are." During the four-day camp, participants reviewed and played newly created interactive educational games focused on aspects of climate change in the polar regions. The Eco-Chains card game, which links the polar-food chain and highlights the importance of sea ice, and Arctic SMARTIC, a marine spatial planning game that requires players to negotiate competing interests in the changing conditions of the Arctic, were well received by participants. Based on their experiences during the camp, participants designed individualized outreach plans for bringing culturally responsive climate learning to their communities and classrooms throughout the upcoming year. Plans included small group discussions, student projects, teacher training, and conference presentations. To learn more about the PoLAR Climate Change Education Partnership visit thepolarhub.org. Doyon Foundation Forms Languages Partnership Doyon Foundation and Transparent Language, Inc. recently announced the Doyon Foundation 7000 Partnership. The goal of the partnership is to create leading-edge software for the teaching and learning of the Athabascan languages within the Doyon region of Alaska. "Providing cultural opportunities and a strong demonstration of Native traditional language and culture is at the core of Doyon Foundation's mission and vision," said Doris Miller, Doyon Foundation executive director. "This partnership will enable us to make significant strides toward the revitalization of our Native languages, which is critical for their survival." The Doyon Foundation 7000 Partnership is the latest initiative of Transparent Language's 7000 Languages Project. With approximately 7,100 living languages in the world today, the goal of the 7000 Languages Project is to create world-class web and mobile-delivered learning materials for the 7,000 languages beyond the top 100 most widely spoken languages, such as English, Spanish and Chinese. Transparent Language develops transformational language-learning and teaching software for serious language schools and programs in the United States government and elsewhere. "We do deep work in less-common languages because our customers need to respond quickly and effectively to humanitarian crises or conflicts anywhere in the world," said Michael Quinlan, CEO of Transparent Language. "The same technology is perfect for creating powerful learning software for the world's