Globally Connected, Local Leadership

Our community-based staff drive our mission forward. In 2022, the CVRF programs department hosted 45 positions across our region. In partnership with CVRF staff located in Anchorage and Seattle, this team used profits from Bering Sea operations to provide a wide range of program and employment opportunities to our residents. Their work was driven by five community managers, and seven coordinators, in charge of developing and administering the company’s community benefits. This team worked hand in hand with a 44-person team of mechanics and regional affairs staff located in our communities to serve our people with programs to support our elders, heating fuel distribution, as well as internship and scholarships programs and other projects. We sponsored the Alaska Business Development Center, which sent tax preparers to our communities and helped 2,001 people prepare 1,634 returns and helped secure about $4.5 million in tax refunds.

Feeding Our Communities

For the last two years, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed Subsistence fishing in our region which has significantly restricted our resources. When full closures hit Scammon Bay, Hooper Bay, and Chevak in 2022, CVRF moved quickly to ship 10,600 pounds of high-quality Bristol Bay salmon to the communities. A total of 424 households received approximately 20 pounds of fish each. Some households allowed their shares to be given to elders.