2025 Evaluation Reports: Measuring the Impact of Drumbeats

Jan 1, 2026

The Drumbeats Alaska Consortium has released three comprehensive evaluation reports detailing the collective impact of its work throughout the 2024–2025 project year. These reports cover the outcomes of three USDA-NIFA Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNH) grants, offering compelling evidence of the Consortium's success in weaving together Indigenous knowledge and place-based education. The findings demonstrate how these federal resources have been translated into tangible progress, including over $463,000 in direct student support and 1,834 enrollments in courses and workshops that address critical food and energy security issues across the state. 

• Drumbeats Alaska: Place-Based Solutions for Alaska Native Food & Energy Sovereignty (2024-2027): 2024-2025 Annual Evaluation Report  (Year 1)

• Drumbeats Alaska Consortium: Place-Based Solutions for Alaska Native Food & Energy Sovereignty (2023-2026): 2024-2025 Annual Evaluation Report  (Year 2)

• Drumbeats Alaska Consortium: Place-Based Solutions for Alaska Native Food & Energy Sovereignty (2022-2025): 2024-2025 Annual Evaluation Report  (Year 3) 

This work is supported by the Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program, award no. 2024-38470-43416, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.