CIRI Participation Committee

CIRI invites Shareholders and confirmed Descendants to serve on the CIRI Participation Committee (CPC). This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your knowledge of and strengthen ties with CIRI; network with your fellow Shareholders and Descendants, CIRI staff and Board Directors; and provide your voice and perspective to your corporation. 

CPC members serve non-staggered, two-year terms. The 2026 application window is Friday, May 1 to Sunday, June 14. 

Application and selection process:   

• CIRI makes every effort to select members who represent the diversity of our Shareholders and Descendants. 

• Members will serve two-year terms that begin at the time of selection and expire at the Annual Meeting two years later. 

• Former members must typically wait six years before being eligible to serve again. 

• There are typically two meetings per year, and any necessary in-person travel arrangements are made by CIRI. Members are compensated $150 per meeting day. 

The purpose of the CPC is to:

• Increase Shareholder and Descendant communication with the corporation. 

• Identify issues of immediate and long-term importance to Shareholders and Descendants. 

• Assist the corporation in educating Shareholders and Descendants on CIRI’s mission and values, business operations, corporate policies, Shareholder and Descendant opportunities and other matters. 

• Appropriately represent CIRI’s Shareholder and Descendant demographics, including Anchorage, Alaska (outside Anchorage/Mat-Su), and the Lower 48 and Hawaii. 

To be eligible, you must:

• Be a Shareholder or confirmed Descendant (ages 18+).  

• Have access to a telephone, computer, internet access and email. 

• Not have been convicted, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, of a felony within five years of applying to serve. 

• Not have been found, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, to have engaged in fraud or illegal business practices, or to have breached a confidentiality agreement with the corporation. CIRI Directors, management staff and their immediate family members (i.e., husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother, children) are not eligible to serve on a committee, nor are CIRI employees or directors and management staff of CIRI subsidiaries or socially driven enterprises.