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Sealaska Announces Beginning of Election Season
Friday, May 2, 2025

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Shareholders, today marks the beginning of another election season!

Your paper proxies are being mailed out today and you can access Election Connection via MySealaska.com to view the proxy online and cast your votes. Our annual election cycle is an important way your voices guide the future of Sealaska by selecting our leadership. We are grateful to all of you who take part.

On this year’s proxy, you will find a great deal of important information, including statements from and details about this year’s candidates for the Sealaska Board of Directors. The proxy also includes details on Sealaska’s corporate financial performance and compensation, instructions on how to vote your proxy, how to vote online or by mail and explanations on the different methods of voting: directed, discretionary or quorum only.

Another important piece of information for shareholders that you’ll find in the proxy is notice of Sealaska’s 52nd Annual Meeting, taking place on Saturday, June 21, 2025, at the Kake Community Hall. We hope to welcome as many shareholders as possible in person, but there will also be an option to attend online. The meeting will commence at 11:00 a.m. AK time, and the agenda will include: election of four directors to serve on the Sealaska Board of Directors for terms ending in 2028, reports on Sealaska’s business operations and activities for the 2024 fiscal year and discussion of any other business that may arise during the meeting.

Vote before the early bird deadline of May 28 to be entered for a chance to win up to $5,000 dollars! Important information on prize rules and shareholder eligibility can be found on your proxy. The early bird prizes this year are as follows:

  • Grand Prize: $5,000 for one winner.
  • 2nd Prize: $2,500 for two winners.
  • 3rd Prize: $1,000 for five winners.
  • 4th Prize: $750 for six winners.
  • 5th Prize: $500 for eleven winners.

Please remember that if you have “Gone Green” and opted to receive electronic communications instead of physical mail from Sealaska, you will not receive a physical proxy in the mail. You can check your “Go Green” status on MySealaska.com, under the “About Me” page.

In just a few short days, shareholders will have the opportunity to attend a virtual candidate forum to hear from this year’s candidates. Please join us on Tuesday, May 6 at 11:30 am AK time via the Mysealaska portal to participate. We hope to see you there!

Over the past few months, we have been enjoying getting out and visiting with our shareholders in communities for board meetings and gatherings. As we look forward to additional community meetings throughout this election cycle, we are providing the schedule below in the hopes that our shareholders will be able to mark these dates on their calendars and attend:

May:

9. Wasilla — Community Meeting

10. Anchorage — Community Meeting

12. Craig — Community Meeting

17. Hoonah — Community Meeting

19. Juneau — Community Meeting

30. North Seattle — Community Meeting

31. South Seattle — Community Meeting

June:

21. Kake — Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Voting during the election cycle is an important part of being an engaged shareholder. This year we strive to provide as much information as we can about Sealaska’s business and operations, finances and benefits programs. We encourage you to stay engaged and learn about all the facets of Sealaska on MySealaska.com, our social media platforms, the annual report and the video series that will be launching in the coming days.


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Posted 1/17/2025
Posted 1/17/2025
Contact: Amy Miller, 907-229-3524 amy.miller@tnc.org Alaska’s economy lost billions in fisheries earnings over the last 50 years ISER report summarizes decades of research to draw sobering conclusions JUNEAU — A new report by the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research summarizes results from a variety of sources to draw a clear and compelling… Source

Posted 7/21/2022
Posted 7/21/2022
Sealaska and its partners in the Seacoast Trust gathered last week in Juneau to celebrate meeting the first major fundraising milestone — $20 million — for the newly created trust. In September of 2021, Sealaska and its partners in the Sustainable Southeast Partnership announced the creation of the trust as a long-term, sustainable and sovereign funding vehicle for SSP. Sealaska’s initial $10… Source

Posted 9/15/2021
Posted 9/15/2021
Today, Sealaska joins with several other organizations committed to the long-term health and success of our region in announcing a new vision and funding model for community economic development in Southeast Alaska. Sealaska is proud to commit $10 million to the establishment of the Seacoast Trust. Our $10 million is being matched with $7 million from The Nature Conservancy… Source

Posted 5/13/2021
Posted 5/13/2021
Why does Sealaska want to establish a new settlement trust? It’s a great opportunity for Sealaska, and for our shareholders! An Alaska Native Corporation Settlement Trust provides Sealaska and its shareholders with significant tax advantages. Distributions to shareholders (referred to as “beneficiaries” under the trust) will not be subject to federal tax. Changes to federal tax law in 2017… Source

Posted 11/10/2020
Posted 11/10/2020
Sealaska joins with Alaska’s congressional delegation and its 4,400 landless shareholders in the communities of Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Haines and Tenakee Springs in celebrating the introduction today of legislation aimed at righting the historical wrong represented by their exclusion from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. The legislation allows the five communities to… Source

Posted 3/9/2020
Posted 3/9/2020
Sealaska is increasing its involvement in the education of shareholders and descendants long before they are eligible for a college scholarship. One example is our sponsorship of the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) Middle School Academy. ANSEP, as the program is known, is based at the University of Alaska. Over the past 20-plus years, the program has evolved into a… Source

Posted 10/28/2019
Posted 10/28/2019
The Haa Aaní, LLC (HAL) board convened its quarterly meeting in September in Ketchikan and later traveled to Prince of Wales Island for a closer look at operations there. The board reviewed active timber harvest operations, second-growth forests, and silviculture programs (designed to improve forest health). They also drove through miles of lands within Sealaska’s carbon-offset program… Source

Posted 5/7/2019
Posted 5/7/2019
Nicole George, previous Board Youth Advisor, presented Michael Cesar with a scholarship for the 2018-19 school year at Juneau-Douglas High School last year. More than 350 students are receiving a scholarship from Sealaska this year. Sealaska is awarding a record $940,000 in academic scholarships for the 2019-20 school year. This is nearly $175,000 more than the previous year… Source

Posted 6/12/2018
Posted 6/12/2018
The Sealaska board recently completed a series of community meetings in nine communities around Southeast Alaska and Washington. We visited with nearly a thousand Sealaska shareholders, sharing updates about Sealaska, but also taking the time to listen and learn about what’s happening in those communities. Read more about the meetings here. This is a rundown of some of the questions and comments… Source