Open now. The University of Alaska Anchorage Alaska AI Solutions Consortium, through the Rural AI Solutions & Engagement project funded by NSF Award #2433241, is soliciting Alaska community partner Statements of Need for the RAISE Mini Grants 2026-2027 program. The program is intended to build community partnerships and applied artificial intelligence capacity around real problems in Alaska.
Eligible community partners: UAA states that a community partner may be any Alaska organization outside the university, including large or small businesses, Alaska Native organizations, K-12 organizations, government entities, nonprofit organizations, and University of Alaska research centers.
Process and submission: An interested community partner first submits a Statement of Need through the official UAA process. UAA then seeks to match the organization with faculty expertise, and the partner and faculty member develop a proposal together. The full proposal is submitted by the UAA faculty partner.
Deadlines: Community Partner Statement of Need: September 21, 2026. Full Proposal: October 7, 2026. The current controlling UAA page does not publish a clock time or time zone for either deadline, so Atlas does not infer one.
Funding: UAA describes the awards as seed funding intended to encourage further research and collaboration. The current public posting does not state a per-project award ceiling, a total Mini Grant pool, or a mandatory applicant match or cost share. Atlas does not infer any of those values.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 82/100. This is a verified Alaska-administered, statewide applied-AI opportunity with broad community-partner eligibility and potential relevance to healthcare, rural health, education, workforce, and community-service innovation when an applicant has a genuine AI problem statement.
N9+ Fit Score: 35/100 conditional. The public solicitation does not establish a medical-device, remote-examination, telehealth, or clinical-technology funding requirement. A role for the Nonagon N9+ device and platform should be considered only if an eligible Alaska organization independently identifies a responsive health-related AI project and UAA confirms the proposed work and costs are appropriate. Atlas does not force that fit.
Outreach control: Because the authoritative source does not publish the deadline time zone, Atlas will not initiate new cold applicant outreach unless the exact deadline and time zone are authoritatively verified. Publication does not authorize outreach.
Official source: UAA Alaska AI Solutions Consortium RAISE Mini Grants 2026-2027.