Downtown Anchorage at night
Relaunching soon

The place to go for Native business.

NativeCo is coming back as the single entry point to the Alaska Native business community. News, data, jobs and events for more than 200 Native corporations, all in one place, built for the people who lead them and everyone who wants to do business with them.

Be among the first in when the doors open. No spam, ever.

Map of Alaska showing the boundaries of the 12 regional Alaska Native corporations

Why NativeCo

Tucked away in the largest state you'll find the biggest secret.

Alaska Native corporations are among the most powerful forces in the Alaska economy. Some are billion-dollar enterprises. Many are small village corporations with land, history and potential that the rest of the business world rarely sees. Until now there has been no single place to find them all.

1971
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act creates the regional and village corporations.
200+
Alaska Native corporations, each with its own land, leaders, shareholders and story.
1 to 2
Full-time employees at many village corporations, often with no website of their own.
One
Place to find every one of them. That is what we are building.

What's coming

Everything Alaska Native business, under one roof.

Five core services at launch, built to be visited every day by Native business leaders and the people who want to work with them.

News and original reporting

Original stories from NativeCo journalists alongside coverage from statewide papers, community weeklies, TV and radio. Every article is sorted by corporation, so you can follow the ones that matter to you.

The corporation database

Contact information, leadership and directors, shareholders, land, subsidiaries, industries and financials for every Alaska Native corporation, regional and village alike.

The job board

Many corporations lack the budget for traditional listings, and the best candidate is often already employed. NativeCo puts openings in front of the right people while they are here for everything else.

The master events calendar

Annual meetings, elections, conferences and community gatherings across every corporation on one calendar, so you can see what is happening and schedule without stepping on each other.

Resources and directory

A deep library of links for anyone in the Alaska Native business world, plus an exclusive directory of Alaska Native-owned businesses.

And later

Profiles and bios, a podcast, video, a daily and weekly news summary by email, and more. Tell us what you want to see first.

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A page for every ANC

Every corporation gets a home on the web.

Many village corporations own thousands of acres and hold real potential, yet have no website at all. NativeCo gives every one of them a page with its news, job listings, events and the essential facts.

Registered users can update their corporation's information directly, much like a wiki. That is how the hardest-to-reach corporations stay current. If you are from another ANC, you may find a partner here. If you sell to ANCs, you may find your next customer. If you are a shareholder, you can finally keep up.

Corporation profile Sample layout
Region and people
Shareholders
Acres of land
Leadership
Board of directors
Subsidiaries
Revenue and dividends
Village corporations
News Jobs Events Industries Contact

Who it's for

Built for the decision makers, and for everyone they serve.

Shareholders

Stay current on what your corporation, and every other, is doing.

ANC leaders and boards

See what your peers are building, find partners and plan around each other's calendars.

Business partners

Executives and suppliers looking to work with Alaska Native corporations as clients or partners.

Government and contracting

Contractors, procurement officers and elected officials who need to know who is who.

Job seekers

Find roles across the Native business world that never make the traditional listings.

Anchorage skyline across the water with the Chugach Mountains behind

Our view

We are building NativeCo with a point of view.

The current and outgoing generation of leaders fought hard to succeed in the American corporate world. For many, the first goal was simply to survive, and balancing Native values with business was a puzzle without an answer.

More than fifty years later, most regional corporations are flourishing. Most small village corporations are struggling. We want to help unlock the value in every village corporation so it can prosper and serve its people.

The next generation will build on this foundation and reshape ANCs in its own vision, drawing on new models like B corporations and the triple bottom line.

We believe the world will one day look at Alaska Native corporations and emulate their corporate model.

The spectrum of success

Profit alone High margins, few shareholder jobs, little returned beyond the bottom line.
Values in balance Shareholder employment, training, capacity and pride of ownership.

Every business must be profitable. NativeCo will tell the stories of corporations finding where they belong on this line, including the value that never shows up on a spreadsheet.

Since 2009

The original NativeCo proved the need.

NativeCo.com first went live on August 28, 2009, as the only online resource dedicated to all 200+ Alaska Native corporations. With Native business leaders as registered users, it reached the most influential decision makers in the community. The next NativeCo builds on that foundation with everything learned since.

18,964Unique visitors
45,142Page views
6,224Search terms that led people to the site
900Subscribers
Original advisory board Byron Mallott Joe Beedle Aliza Sherman
Morgan Howard, founder of NativeCo

Founder

Morgan Howard

X'agatkeen. Teikweidí, Eagle, Brown Bear House.

Morgan is a Tlingit and Haida tribal member, originally from Yakutat. He is the founder and CEO of Morgan Howard Productions, a strategic communications firm that has worked with Alaska Native corporations and Tribes since 1995. Before that he reported for NBC, Telemundo and FOX affiliates, and before that he fished commercially in Alaska waters.

Any positive return on investment is a home run to me. The goodwill that grows a brand may not show up on the spreadsheets, but it has enormous value.

Early access

Be first through the door.

Join the list for launch news and an early look. NativeCo gets its information from the people who know it best, so if you have something to share about your corporation, or just want to say hello, use the form. It comes straight to us.