BSNC congratulates Harry Ivanoff of Unalakleet, Nicholas Toolie of Savoonga and Darrin Topkok of Teller for completing nine weeks of training and graduating from the Village Safety Police Officer (VPSO) program. These VPSOs have recently returned to their hometowns where they will be serving. As VPSOs they will provide police, firefighting, emergency medical treatment, water...
BSNC shareholder Jared A. Edenshaw graduated from the Alaska State Trooper Academy in Sitka, Alaska on June 12, 2020. Edenshaw graduated from Mt Edgecumbe High School in May 2015 where he participated in the Law Enforcement Cadet Corp. After graduation, he took a job as a Public Safety Technician for five seasons in Dillingham, Alaska...
BSNC hired nine interns for its 2020 Summer Internship Program. The internship program provides interns valuable experience in the workplace and trainings/workshops on BSNC’s corporate business structure and history, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, speed mentoring with Alaska Native leaders and education on Alaska Native policy issues in addition to many others. While many...
A Message from the President & CEO The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged many of us in ways that we never could have imagined. Despite these challenges, I have seen resilience and strength in BSNC’s shareholders, descendants and employees. In our Region, Our People have enjoyed a bountiful spring subsistence season. Subsistence foods continue to provide...
The BSNC Board of Directors have transferred BSNC’s future donations of funding and administration of scholarship program benefits from the Bering Straits Foundation to the BSNC Beringia Settlement Trust. This action was taken by the BSNC Board in light of favorable federal tax changes involving settlement trusts and plans to grow the corpus of the scholarship program....
(Anchorage, Alaska) – The Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) Board of Directors announced their endorsement of U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan for reelection to the United States Senate. Sen. Sullivan was elected in 2014 and sworn in as Alaska’s eighth United States Senator on Jan. 6, 2015. He is known as one of the Senate’s most...
(Anchorage, Alaska) – The Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) Board of Directors has voted to declare a 2020 special Elder dividend distribution of $1,500. This special distribution will be paid through the BSNC Beringia Settlement Trust in on a tax-free basis to original BSNC shareholders who are 65 years of age or older on Nov....
(Anchorage, Alaska) –The Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) Board of Directors has declared a record-high dividend of $8.33 per share to be issued in November, an increase of $1.33 per share more than the 2019 shareholder dividend. The average BSNC shareholder who owns 100 shares of stock will receive $833. Checks will be mailed or...
Notice to shareholders: The 2020 Annual Meeting Shareholder Packets have been mailed. Please note that as the Annual Meeting will be held via webcast, there will be no in-person voting this year.
The Alaska Federation of Natives board of directors today decided that the 2020 Annual Convention will be virtual, citing on-going COVID-19 health and safety concerns. There will be no in-person component to the Convention, which was to be held in Anchorage at the Dena’ina Center this October. The virtual convention, scheduled for October 15 and 16,...
