ANCSA Village Corporations.

• Position: Alaska Native

Village Corporation Highlight: Cape Fox Corporation

Cape Fox Corporation published an abundance of positive developments in its June 2018 edition of Totem Times, the corporation's newsletter.

Cape Fox Facilities Services was awarded a five-and-half-year contract to provide professional janitorial services for US Coast Guard Base Ketchikan; the contract is valued at $405,000 and runs from October through March 2024. The scope of work includes general cleaning services, maintenance tasks, ground supervision, and facility health code adherences to ensure the health and safety of military personnel. This contract may afford local shareholders opportunities to work onsite in Ketchikan.

Cape Fox subsidiary Eagle Health was awarded a $9 million contract with the Defense Health Agency in Aurora, Colorado. The contract began in June and includes all personnel and supervision necessary to perform contract resource management support services, including budgeting, accounting, reporting, systems accounting, and payments. The current contract is comprised of twenty-one positions.

NAVAR, a Cape Fox subsidiary that specializes in conference planning, media, communication, logistics, construction, and administrative support, has been awarded a one-year contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to provide conference planning and management services. The company also secured two new task orders with the Department of Justice for conference support and one task order with the National Institute for Standards Technology for conference and AV support services, capefoxcorp.com

Village Corporation Highlight: Chitina Native Corporation

This year Chitina Native Corporation launched a new website, chitinanative.com. Along with the new website, the company launched a new logo that features a river flowing beneath a mountain. In its Spring 2018 Newsletter the company says, "This is an ongoing effort to modernize and project CNC and its subsidiaries in a broader market in a more consistent way. Everything from color, type of font, and graphic was considered out of many ideas." chitinanative.com

Village Corporation Highlight: Gana-A'Yoo

In June, the Gana-A'Yoo, (which today represents the villages of Galena, Koyukuk, Nulato, and Kaltag after a 1978 merger of the four village corporations) Board of Directors appointed Dena Sommer-Pedebone as the corporation's new CEO. Sommer-Pedebone succeeds Betty Huntington, who retired after eleven years as the company's CEO. Gana-A'Yoo President Melissa McGinty said in a release about the transition, "In Dena Sommer-Pedebone, we selected a very strong leader and communicator who will thrive in a highly competitive market place while balancing growth and sustainable operations. Dena has the ability to develop people, inspire change, and connect with our shareholders, employees, customers, partners, and other business leaders."

Sommer-Pedebone has a diverse background in multiple industries such as oil and gas, healthcare, and federal housing. She received her bachelor of business administration in marketing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Previous to this position, she worked for five years for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company where she hold = management positions in contract, supplier performance, and purchasing, ganaayoo.com

Village Corporation Highlight: Kuukpik Corporation

In 2018 Kuukpik Corporation and SAExploration entered into an agreement to...