Alaska Human Services Grants

Susie Edwardson
susie.edwardson@alaska.gov
907.465.6961

Alaska Human Services Grants provide funding for transportation services that meet the needs of older adults, individuals with disabilities, and Alaska Mental Health Trust beneficiaries for whom public transportation services are unavailable, insufficient, or inappropriate. Applications from areas with no public transit receive priority.

Projects should:

• Ensure that older adults and persons with disabilities gain access and mobility similar to the general population from the use of transit facilities and services
• Make special efforts in the planning and design of transportation facilities and services to assure older adults and persons with disabilities have the availability of transportation that can be effectively used
• Use incentives to encourage the coordination within communities of existing public transportation services and human service transportation
• Provide transportation programs for special populations in small and geographically-isolated communities of Alaska where limited resources offer little opportunity for coordination benefits

Eligible applicants include:

• Private nonprofit organizations that are exempt under IRS Section 501(c)(3)
• Public bodies and Alaskan native tribes that certify there are no nonprofit agencies available in the area to provide the service
• Public bodies and Alaskan native tribes approved by the state to coordinate services for seniors and persons with disabilities

All applicants must have, and participate in, an up-to-date coordinated public transit-human services transportation plan.

Award amounts are not stated.

Capital projects require a 20% local (non-federal) match. Operating assistance projects require a 50% non-federal local match.

Intent to apply forms for current awardees and new applications are available on the program website.

Email the completed intent to apply form to dot.alaska.transit@alaska.gov by September 23, 2024. Selected eligible applicants will be invited to submit a full application, with a deadline of December 16, 2024.