2013 Fall Alaska Native Directory

HEAL BULLYING 2 | THE BUSINESS OF SHARING 6 | THE BEST OF BUILD 12

Fall 2013 - 11th Edition

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“Yaghali ehlan du, Nts’e doxt’ae” (How are you all?)

We at the Kenai Peninsula College want to welcome rural and native students to Yaghanen (Kenai Peninsula, good land)! Our campus offers a place for students to grow and achieve at their own pace with small classrooms and family–like atmosphere. Also, our new residence hall gives students a chance to live and learn while pursuing their passion, whatever it might be.

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Good for health. Great for business. Smokefree policies have been shown to not only improve the health and productivity of employees, but also decrease business costs for insurance, cleaning and maintenance. Research shows that smokefree laws are routinely positive or neutral in their economic impact.*

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HEAL BULLYING - "What happened at school today?" In the Spring edition, I wrote about today's generation, which I call "Gen T" or Generation Trauma due to their adverse childhood experiences. For 90% of our youth, being bullied is one of those adverse childhood

experiences.

Bullying has become the most common form of violence our youth experience, and it usually happens at school. Every day, more than 160,000 students skip school because of their fear of being bullied. Bullying is defined as "an ongoing mistreatment done with intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power". Bullying takes several forms: physical, verbal, social, and cyberbullying. Physical bullying is hitting, punching, shoving, and other forms of physical harm. Verbal is name calling, derogatory remarks, and hurtful teasing. Social bullying is spreading rumors, excluding one from activities, breaking up friendships, and other group related harmful acts. Cyberbullying is using digital technology and social media to hurt another, from texting negative things, posting rumors, sending embarrassing pictures, and other forms of harassment. Cyberbullying is the most intense, because it spreads instantly to an unlimited audience. It has become a highly charged legal issue. In the US and Canada, there have been several cases of murder charges brought against cyberbullies after the bullied teen committed suicide. The outcome of these cases will be ground breaking, but regardless of the outcomes, the results are heartbreaking to everyone. For every child that is bullied, there is a heartbreaking story, and I have mine... This spring, I became personally involved with the issue when my grandson was bullied at school. I taught him to stand up, and he did. When he stepped in to protect a physically disabled student at school, my grandson was called into the office for aggressive behavior! In another case, he was protecting an autistic student (who was bullied so badly that his parents took him out of school and home schooled him). At that point, the bullies joined together to target my grandson. For several months, he was relentlessly bullied. I could not get anyone at the school to take effective action to protect him or to discipline the bullies, even when I reported the names of the bullies and actions they took.

Authors Note: Research on adverse childhood experiences reveals that characteristics of a child or young adult with trauma include: trouble at school, anxiousness, hyperactivity, depression and delinquency. Too many kids don't get help, because they are unwilling to talk about being bullied and its effects on them, saying they don't want to trouble their parents. Some kids also fear making their parents mad, and feel their parents will punish them. These kids are not getting help or emotional support because the adults around them may not understand what is going on or have little experience dealing with these types of issues. Parents may respond by telling the bullied kid s/he just needs to "ignore it" or "fight back" or "be tough." Worse yet, when kids report cyberbullying, parents often respond by limiting or eliminating their access to social media, which is punishing the bullied kid! Teri Mahaney lived in Alaska for more than ten years. She is the worlds leading expert on theta brain research and healing. She lives in Carlsbad California with Tyler. Teri's sites: www.HelenasHope.com | www.ChangeYourMind.com | www.TeriMahaney.com Photo: Earth seen from Apollo 17

My heartbreak was on several levels: my pain from my grandson’s mistreatment, my sadness over the insensitivity and inhumanity of the bullies, and my indignation at the school’s unresponsiveness and ineffectiveness. As a former educator, this was especially painful. Of course, my grandson’s negative experiences were being stored in his theta brain. His experience was affecting his thoughts, feelings, and actions, and in turn were creating a new self image - which wasn’t positive. My grandson became angry; he got “tough” and joined the “wrong” crowd for protection; he lost his good friends, and his grades fell dramatically.

At this point, I knew one positive action I could take to help him heal his pain. I could neutralize his negative theta messages. So I created a SuperSleep® recording for him with about 60 statements like: Teri and Tyler

~ I release and forgive everyone who has bullied me ~ All my fear around bullying is now dissolved from my life in grace ~ I am calm and strong in the face of bullying ~ I stand up to bullies in the right way at the right times ~ I am safe from bullies at all times

As he listened and processed the CD over time, I saw his healing taking place, and I had an "Ah-Hah"... I could do this for ALL children who have been bullied. And so I founded the "Heal Bullying Project". Heal Bullying (www.HealBullying.org) provides FREE MP3 downloads of recordings to help children and adults heal negative theta messages from bullying. There are 6 different recordings:

~ I Stand Up to Bullying ~ I’m Over the Hurt ~ I’m Smart About Social Media ~ I Feel Good About Myself ~ I Get Along at School ~ I Hang Out With the Right Kids Each recording has 100 different statements on it. They will be available by the end of the year, and I invite you to be one of the first to use them, have your family and friends use them, share them, and spread the word that they are available. It's easy and they can be used by anyone anytime anywhere. For instance, the recording, I Feel Good About Myself is universal.

All of us can use that one... We all want to feel good!

One of my greatest desires is for bullying to end. For this to happen, we must be aware and acknowledge this serious problem in our world. You can probably remember a time you were bullied or saw someone bullied. It's so common, we often don't respond. Until we take positive action to do something about bullying, we are part of the problem, not the solution.

I encourage you to open your heart and stand up for your child, student, friends and family. Together, let's do the right thing! You can and will make a difference in another's life. Please visit www.healbullying.org and friend us on Face Book. Free MP3s will be ready in a few months. Join the publishers mailing list, send an email to aknative@ak.net with "subscribe" in the subject for an occasional update.

Welcome Message & Table of Contents Table of Contents Articles

2 - "Heal Bullying" - What happened at school today? by Teri Mahaney Phd.

6 - The New Sharing Economy by Anthony Caole

Thanks for picking up our publication. This edition has over 4500 listings and 360 customers. I never would have expected that we could handle so many clients.

10 - Developing Talent from within - by Angela Camos 12 - The Best of "Build" Intro. to The Build Network 12 - START UP your Ideas by Jim Cocallas

Directory & Resources

HEAL BULLYING

20 - Alaska SBA 8A Firms 21 - US Congressional Delegation

A big thanks to Anthony Caole and Angela Camos who write about how you can take advantage of time banks and build talent in your company. CEOs and small business owners should take note, and learn about the new wave of "SHARING", "TIMEBANKS," and "VIRTUAL LEARNING AND COLLABORATION."

24 - Federally Recognized Tribes - Alaska 26 - Federally Recognized Tribes - Lower 48 29 - Fairbanks - Bus Map 30 - Anchorage - Bus Map 31 - Category Index

Sites & Sources CBGUSA.com

Live Directory & CRM

Our new Call Center has made over 20,000 updates to our database / directory. Great Job Team! Credit is due to our Call Center Team, Rico, Taj, Michael, Fraix, Marie, Robert, Aira and my partners Mike and Joe Fetko of International Telecom here in Anchorage. Awesome work! Teri Mahaney is back with an update and her new project Heal Bullying. Teri and I will be in Juneau for the AASG - Alaska Association of Student Governments Alaska statewide convention. We'll be learning and sharing with the kids. I am supporting Teri 100%

14 - Alaska Native Regions

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6 THE NEW SHARING ECONOMY

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On the philanthropy front, we are launching www.KickStartAK.com to fill the need for a private source of micro-funding for small businesses in Alaska. The Kick Start AK platform will model successful crowd and micro-loan funding sites. If you are interested please call me at 908-830-8198. The Alaska Native Directory is pledging 50% to 100% of certain revenues to KickStart AK. Stay tuned for our roll out later this year and next. If you like "IDEAS" and share a passion for better ways to create and get things done check out The Build Network. On Page 12, I have selected some of my favorite ideas and write about my favorite brainstorming technique.

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The New Sharing Economy

The “New” Sharing Economy It might seem ironic to the Native community that only recently, with the advent of the Internet, smart phones and 24/7 connectivity, the latest buzz on the technology scene is talk of the New Sharing Economy. Native communities have, after all, been sharing their resources and assets for centuries. The potlatch, for instance, was widely practiced by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, where the status of any given family was raised not by who had the most resources, but by who distributed the most. Non-native assimilationists and missionaries vigorously opposed these cultural and economic practices, considering these celebrations “a worse than useless custom” that was seen as wasteful. Missionary Duncan wrote in 1875 that the potlatch was “by far the most formidable of all obstacles in the way of Indians becoming Christians, or even civilized.” Hence, potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1884, and later made illegal in the U.S. in the 19th century. We have since come full circle, and with the financial collapse in 2008 and the loss of wealth in the United States widespread, a new system of bartering for access to goods, services, data and talent arose: the New Sharing Economy. So what is the New Sharing Economy? According to Wikipedia, the New Sharing Economy refers to the economic and social systems that enable shared access to goods and services. The systems take varying forms, but all “leverage information technology to empower individuals, corporations, non-profits and government with information that enables distribution, sharing, and reuse of excess capacity in goods and services.” Like the potlatches that went underground, this new barter economy is not as visible as the cash economy, and rather than complex cultural protocols developed over centuries, the New Sharing Economy plays out in cyberspace following Internet protocols, powered by the use of an infinite stream of ones and zeros, and definitely lacking the ceremony, dance, and grandeur of the traditional potlatches. There is a belief in the Native community that how you treat others will eventually come back to reward or haunt you; not surprisingly, like the missionaries and government agents who sought to ban potlatch-

Anthony Caole is a management consultant specializing in partnership agreements, virtual collaboration, with 20 years of experience in municipal/tribal management. His wife and children are enrolled members of the Native Village of Kwinhagak. Anthony is President and CEO of Three Star Enterprises, LLC a SBA 8(a) Certified Alaska Native Corporation. 888-375-7774 | www.3STARAk.com Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center. 800-948-3158 | www.ANAAlaska.org Email: A.Caole@3STARAk.com

ing, their modern counterparts are hot on the trail of the New Sharing Economy, seeking ways to regulate its growth, and extract taxes from the complex exchanges. To avoid problems with the IRS, many so-called timebanks that have been set up to facilitate the barter of services between neighbors have been careful to ensure that no monetary value is assessed to the services being bartered, and that a strict currency of timedollars is used as the unit of exchange: donate 1 hour, and receive 1 hour in the future from a fellow timebank member, regardless of the value of the service rendered or the expertise of the provider. Opposition to the technology fueling the development of the New Sharing Economy has not only come from the government via attempts to increasingly regulate the Internet, but certain industry as well. For instance, our firm was once tasked with assessing the feasibility and interest in the so-called Village Resume, which, for purposes of our study, was assumed to be a database of all human and business resources available in each community to support village construction projects. Despite widespread support for such a database, some companies felt that their knowledge of which workers were available in which communities, along with other critical assets such as construction equipment , was proprietary and critical to their strategic advantage in the bidding process. Their primary concern was how to maintain their own competitive advantage, NOT how to maximize the utilization of the available assets, regardless of employer. In the New Sharing Economy, technology can and will be used to equalize the playing field, empowering the workforce to broadcast the availability of their talent and maximize

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their economic advantage in the information age. In Alaska, the Denali Commission, which has always been cutting edge, and partners, via the Rural Alaska Maintenance Partnership (RAMP), have actually embraced tenets of the New Sharing Economy, by exploring ways in which facility owners can tap into a shared facility maintenance workforce. Currently, many village facility maintenance technicians are marginalized by owners who can only afford to hire them for a couple of hours a day, typically without benefits or retirement. The results with the status-quo approach have been predictable: rapidly deteriorating, poorly maintained,

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and energy inefficient facilities and infrastructure, and rapidly escalating replacement costs. The RAMP is exploring how to solve this problem by regionalizing the facility maintenance workforce under a lead agency or organization, so that training and benefits are invested in, and then utilizing the latest in building systems maintenance technology to manage both the workforce and the facilities maintenance program more efficiently. What promise does the New Sharing Economy hold for Alaska Native businesses, and, perhaps more importantly, for strengthening the rural Alaskan economy? That remains to be seen, but regardless of the state of technology fueling this revolution, a new mind-set will have to take place before we fully leverage the possibilities. For instance, the regional ANCSA corporations have gained tremendous knowledge and expertise in the 8(a) business arena, but that expertise is not being shared at the village corporation level (there are, of course, more than 200 village corporations in Alaska). Perhaps the decline in 8(a) business opportunities due to the sequester and budget cuts will encourage the regionals to offer more shared business services (and expertise) with village corporation subsidiaries to drive costs down and maximize small business contracting preferences for the limited pie that remains. We can hope, right? From the village perspective, we have to overcome the mind-set instilled at an early age in the schools that economic opportunities and better education all lie outside the village and that tapping into them means leaving home indefinitely. In the New Sharing Economy, the emphasis will be on what expertise and specific skill sets you bring to the table and how well you “play” side by side in cyberspace, not necessarily where you live or reside, par-

ticularly as nearly all business systems are going virtual and universities are increasingly offering their programs online and via distance delivery with many courses being available for FREE! A true sharing model... Additionally, online learning isn’t just restricted to university courses – today, that learning is happening throughout social media on a peer-to-peer basis, using YouTube, screen-sharing, Skype, and VOIP for voice and video. Meanwhile, sites such as eTaskBoard, O-Desk, TaskRabbit, and NoticeToBid are making it increasingly possible to freelance as a career, providing on-demand labor and expertise when it is needed, reducing the overhead small businesses would otherwise be saddled with paying for idle expertise. As it turns out, the “New” Sharing Economy isn’t actually all that New. The Native community has already been practicing this economy for centuries. The Western business world is finally catching on and seeing the wisdom and value of sharing critical assets and excess capacity after deriding the sharing aspects of the tribal economy more than a century ago. Today, technology is now enabling the “potlatch” of ideas, skills, talents, and expertise to go global. Will you be joining in? Anthony Caole is President/CEO of Three Star Enterprises, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Oceanside Corporation Three Star is an Alaska Native Corporation, SBA 8(a) , and operator of the Alaska Region T/TA Center, a Resource of the Administration for Native Americans. Potlatch. (2013, September 24). Wikipedia. Retrieved September 25, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Potlatch Sharing economy. (2013, September 19). Wikipedia. Retrieved September 25, 2013, from http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_economy

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When times are tough we often tighten our belts, trim any excess, gather our reserves, and hunker down to weather out the storm. However, what would create better sustainability for an organization as a whole is the idea of information and resource sharing. Thinking of an organization and how it operates, we typically find that each department is carefully guarding their information and budget for what they believe is their long-term survival, however, when one department fortifies its stronghold, another department suffers. This causes a weakness in the organization as a whole, and like a forest that has grown too many trees in one place, the undergrowth gets choked out and cannot see the sun, and the organization is no longer operating at its full capacity. One department may be rising while one or more others are struggling and dwindling away. It is the deterioration and loss of products or services these dwindling departments offer that begins to cause the destruction of the organization as a whole, not to mention the clientele the organization serves, who also suffer from the loss. It is up to the leadership of an organization to discover what they as a team to best, to guide the organization in collaborative efforts and information sharing, and to choose managers that have the best interests of the organization as a whole in mind, rather than only themselves and their individual agendas. Leaders must also recognize when something is not working, when a department’s management is hindering the organization rather than helping it, or when a department is withholding information and/or resources to the detriment of the organization. Then they must decide the best course of action. How do leaders create a culture of collaboration, manage their talent and change the course of how they do business? Having a good coach allows executives to work through the answers to these difficult questions and tasks, enabling them to build a strong

Angela Camos, Business/Executive Coach & Organizational Consultant at Three Star Enterprises. Angela has over 19 years of business, program, process and project development and implementation experience; working with urban and rural clients. As an Executive & Business Coach, Angela works with individuals and businesses to implement their creative ideas, enhance their processes and achieve their goals, ensuring their longterm sustainability and success. She challenges her clients to set high expectations, while providing the right level of support and encourage ment to ensure success.

leadership team and a moAngela at 888-375-7774 tivated workforce. The key Contact Email: A.Camos@3STARAK.com Web: www.3STARAK.com is discovering what these Web: www.ANAALASKA.org leaders as a team do best; what is it that they do that no one else in the organization can do? Once you discover this, then you need to implement strategies, processes, and team roles to leverage those individual strengths and talents. Developing innate talent and growing leaders throughout the organization is another opportunity, but to do this, the organization must have in place a good talent management plan, as well as a way to discover who these future leaders are, and a means to mentor and guide them. Developing skilled managers helps keep an organization’s departments and staff running smoothly, and good leadership coaching and mentoring can be akin to enabling new light to shine through the forest canopy, allowing a breakthrough in new ideas and sustained growth from within. That growth from within happens when we learn to develop individual workers and allow them opportunities to grow in their job and with their talents. Have you have asked what truly interests your staff versus what they have been assigned to do, day in and day out? You may be surprised at what talents, passion, and ideas have been hidden or ignored! When everyone is invested in the best interest of the organization and the clientele, when there is open dialogue, there is more information and resource sharing by employees from top to bottom, each gaining in value and contributing to the health of the organization as a whole.

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The Best of "Build" ~ Start Up Your Ideas The Best of "Build" A Primer on Starting Up Your Ideas A great source for new of ideas is Build by Jim Cocallas, Publisher Magazine and The Build Network. If you are a CEO, small business person, student, Build is a new magazine and site startyoung or old we all share one thing incommon, "IDEAS". ed by the publishers of Inc. Magazine. Here are a few top quotes and ideas. This primer is about "How to turn your ideas into reality?".

My goal is to share some tips and tricks that can speed you on your way to bringing your ideas into reality. The key equation is: Ideas + Action = Creation. In the context of "Starting Up" it does not matter if you are starting a business, going on a hunting trip, gathering berries or carving a mask. Everything starts with an idea and creating is bringin ideas into reality. We live in a most exciting time. With the internet and speedy connectivity most all the ideas that ever existed are within reach of your finger tips. With a few clicks and keystrokes you can find just about anything. "The Best Ideas Win - Create a Culture of Sharing" A company wide social network permits instant companywide Ask yourself, What do I want to create? "Idea Generation" In a typical six- or eight-person group, three people do 70 percent of the talking. Solution: At your next idea-generation meeting, every team member writes down one good idea or one proposed solution. Then have each vote for ONE idea that they think is going to be exciting for your company. The BEST ideas won't be missed... See more at: http://thebuildnetwork.com/team-building/brainwriting/#sthash.HsszW7XJ.dpuf -

messaging in a way that’s much more feedback friendly than an all-company e-mail. Employees of all levels get to share opinions in a forum that anyone in the organization may access. - See more at:

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"On Talent Management" Companies often say that their employees are their most valuable asset, but many struggle to connect each employee's individual performance to the company's strategy and mission. Developing an integrated talent-development process can solve that problem while also helping companies identify critical skills gaps. Senior executives should also apply their talents to talent management. - See more at: http://thebuildnetwork.com/leadership/talent-management/#sthash.hSyJRpMF.dpuf "10 Things to do each day" 1. Read something related to my industry. 2. Read something related to business development. 3. Send two emails to touch base with old colleagues. 4. Empty my private client inbox by responding to clients questions in one day. 5. Check in with each team member on their progress. 6. Have a short nonwork-related conversation with an employee. 7. Review my top three Goal Focused goals for my company. 8. Identify & execute one task to support my top three goals. 9. Post five valuable pieces of content on all of my major social media accounts. 10. Take a full minute to appreciate what I have and how far I’ve come. See more at: http://thebuildnetwork.com/leadership/productivity-checklist/#sthash.SyKUqV6L.dpuf

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A business, a home, a better way to do something, more happiness? When you ask yourself a question, ideas start poping up. Right? Let's create! The first step is to draw a mind map. (above) Mind maps are my favorite way to "Start Up" my ideas. Get a big sheet of paper and use colored markers for best results. View cool mind maps by googling "Mind Maps". Then click on the images tab. Next, ponder the words; Who - What - When Where - Why - How - How much?, and Whatever? Ask your self questions using these words. Such as: Who is going to help? Who are my customers, partners, mentors? What do I need? Where will I find my sources? How much revenue can I generate? Why should I do this business?

13 On your mind map sheet write down any ideas that come to mind, all of your questions, draw pictures or sketches... this is your "throw mud on the wall stage". Use different colors, if you are an artist make it a work of art. When you feel like you have enough on paper, go outside, get some fresh air, play with your kids and see how you feel. When you come back to your mind map you will have more ideas. Just add these ideas to your map. Share your ideas and mind map with your friends, family, mentors and business associates. Tell them what you want to do, ask them to be supportive and open minded. They will give you lots of clues and even more ideas. Once you feel that you have exhausted your "idea bank", again, walk away go have some fun. Creating and working with you ideas should be fun and effortless. If you have a great idea or project, people will tell you so. Try to explain your idea or plan in a few sentences and ask yourself, What problem am I trying to solve? Step 2: Take out another blank sheet of paper and break out each spoke of your mind map and make up a page or big sheet of paper for each spoke. Continue mapping on each word / spoke. If you feel like making lists, then do so. Use a note book for your lists and tasks, goals, things to do, people to call etc. Keep your note book with you. Does my equation, Ideas + Action = Creation take on a new meaning? I hope so... Step 3: Continue organizing your mind maps, notes and to do lists. Group together the ideas, start adding items and create a task list or things to do map. Tip: Write down (transfer) each task onto a stiky note. Then organized the tasks on a big blank sheet of paper and put

them in order. Now, you can figure out what comes first, second, third and which are most important. Step 4: Tack up your big sheets of paper to the wall and start getting organized. Review and organize your lists and take action. START! You will see how easy it is to create and how fast your ideas will come into reality. If you need help with your plan or have any questions you can email me at Publish@ AK.net or call me at 830-8198. Next year in the Spring '14 edition I will follow up and share more. -

About the author. Jim Cocallas is the creator and publisher of the Alaska Native Directory. He founded CBG USA in 1990 and has lived in Alaska for 33 years with his wife Sally and daughter Arianna. He is passionate about creating and is always willing to help small businesses thrive. He is currently pursuing publishing opportunities in Hawaii and the lower 48. You can reach Jim at 907-830-8198.