What does NIMA do for its shareholders besides pay dividends?
Aside from paying dividends to its shareholders, NIMA Corporation benefits shareholders, their descendants and the community as a whole in many ways. NIMA manages all of the lands conveyed to the Corporation through ANCSA. The Board of Directors strives to achieve the highest and best use of NIMA’s land through planning, all with an eye toward the future, and future generations of shareholders. NIMA’s land contains innumerable sites of archaeological importance that NIMA protects from pot hunters to the full extent of the law. NIMA is also cognizant of sites that may become endangered by development or the elements, and is may be involved in the process of systematic excavation resulting in the proper care and careful study of the artifacts. NIMA also provides scholarships to NIMA shareholders and their descendants.