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Goldstream Group recently completed an impact evaluation of Margaret A. Cargill’s Philanthropies’ (MACP) funding to the Alaska Conservation Foundation from 2011 to 2020, which supported community-led conservation work in the Tongass National Forest Region, one of the largest remaining coastal temperate rainforests in the world. MACP’s funding contributed to interrelated community-level changes in Southeast Alaska that are necessary predecessors for long-term ecological sustainability; community engagement in shared stewardship with federal and state agencies, Native corporations and landowners, and environmental organizations; and long-term positive ecological changes in forest health, salmon habitat, and deer populations. Southeast Alaska Impact Assessment Executive Summary

Goldstream Group worked with the Alaska Native Heritage Center to complete a Community Needs and Readiness Assessment for their Tiamuna Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The Community Needs and Readiness Assessment focused on documenting the availability of culturally-reflective services and programs explicitly designed to improve the educational opportunities and achievement of Alaska Native and American Indian youth in the Anchorage area; documenting barriers to accessing supplemental educational services and programs; and identifying unmet interests and recommends priorities for new culturally-reflective services and programs. Tiamuna CNRA Report

The Goldstream Group is excited to partner with the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies on its Southeast Alaska Impact Assessment and Learning Project. The purpose of this impact evaluation is to assess the relationship between the principles guiding MACP’s environmental funding in Southeast Alaska and the expected outcomes of funded programs in areas such as attitudes, behaviors, ecology, economy, and community. This will lead to a better understanding of factors of community-based conservation strategies that engage Southeast Alaska communities and have the greatest impacts on conservation goals and community well-being.

The Goldstream Group, Inc., is excited to partner with the Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Wyoming, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortia to conduct a program-level pilot evaluation measuring the benefits of their programs on community college, undergraduate, and graduate students. The evaluation is funded by grant funded to the University of Alaska Fairbanks by NASA.