Over the past five years, the Anchorage consulting firm Agnew::Beck has received nearly $487,000 in noncompetitive bid awards from the Anchorage Assembly. It’s a left-leaning group that helps prop up the leftists who dominate local government in Anchorage and in smaller towns across Alaska.
The Anchorage awards are listed for things like “Affirmative Action” and “Downtown Anchorage Market Data.” The group also got money to help figure out who to give alcohol tax funds to; and then there’s the $304,776 noncompete contract for a Covid analyst at Agnew::Beck.
During that timeframe, one of its employees became elected to the Anchorage Assembly. And the gifts just kept on coming in, as the grants went out.
When the competitive bids are added it, the amount of taxpayer dollars going to Agnew:Beck exploded to over $800,000 in taxpayer money.
Now-Assemblywoman Anna Brawley was a project manager for Agnew::Beck Consulting, resigning from that job after being elected in 2023 to represent West Anchorage in the position left vacant by Austin Quinn-Davidson, who started her own consulting company and now gets sole-source awards from the Assembly, like this one from 2024.
What goes around, comes around. In 2023 when Brawley ran, Agnew Beck “team members” contributed to their teammate’s campaign. Since she took office, the money kept flowing. And Anna Brawley made these contributions to others since getting elected:
Agnew::Beck makes its money off of pass-through taxpayer dollars through contracts with local and state government, as well as with nonprofits that are also funded by taxpayers through government grants.
For instance, the Haines Borough awarded the company $99,600 in 2023 and another $78,130 in 2024.
A list of Agnew::Beck’s clients is at this link.
(Editor’s note: The company has changed that URL for that page since this was published. It is now: https://agnewbeck.com/clients-weve-helped/ . For posterity, we’ve pasted the client list at the bottom of this story.)
The sole-source contract won by former Assemblywoman Austin Quinn-Davidson in 2024 can be seen here:
| Anchorage, AK | No | General Government | 2024 | 11 | QD Sole Source | Non-Competitive(Sole Source) | QD Consulting Austin Quinn-Davidson | $ 35,000.00 |
It appears former Assemblywoman and Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson will be using the same tactic to squeeze Anchorage taxpayer dollars out of the Assembly. Here is her campaign finance report of donations made to candidates, as found at the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Quinn-Davidson and her wife gave campaign donations to five of the 12 members of the Anchorage Assembly in 2023 before getting her $35,000 reward in 2024. Those candidates are Zac Johnson, Karen Bronga, Anna Brawley, Chris Constant and Felix Rivera.
The Anchorage-based consulting company states that “equity” is core to its mission: “Working alongside our clients to grow healthy, equitable, thriving communities.” This may make it ineligible to receive any federally sourced grants during the Trump Administration.
Agnew::Beck client list:
Over 20 years, A::B has partnered with hundreds of clients. We are honored to support their work.
- Alaska Conservation Foundation
- Alaska Department of Corrections
- Alaska Housing Finance Corporation
- Alaska Literacy Program
- Alaska Marine Conservation Council
- Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
- Alaska Native Justice Center
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
- Alaska Peer Support Consortium
- Alaska Youth and Family Network
- Aleknagik Traditional Council
- Aleut Community of St Paul Island Tribal
- Aleutian Housing Authority
- Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association
- Anchorage Assembly
- Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness
- Anchorage Community Development Authority
- Anchorage Community Land Trust
- Anchorage Health Department
- Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center
- Anchorage School District
- Arc of Anchorage
- Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
- Asa’casarmiut Tribe
- Association of Alaska Housing Authorities
- Association of Alaska School Boards
- AVCP
- AVCP Regional Housing Authority
- Bartlett Regional Hospital
- BBEDC
- BBNA
- Bethel Community Services Foundation
- Big Sky Community Housing Trust
- Blaine County Housing Authority
- Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe
- Boise Bicycle Project
- Boise Elevated
- Boise School District
- Boise State University
- Camai Community Health Center
- Capital City Development Corporation
- Casey Family Programs
- CATCH Program
- Catholic Charities of Idaho
- Catholic Social Services
- Center for Safe Alaskans
- Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Assoc.
- Change 4 the Kenai Coalition
- Chickaloon Village Traditional Council
- Chignik Bay Tribal Council
- City of Boise
- City of Caldwell
- City of Cordova
- City of Dillingham
- City of Hailey
- City of Idaho Falls
- City of Ketchum
- City of Manokotak
- City of North Pole
- City of Palmer
- City of Soldotna
- City of Valdez
- City of Wainwright
- City of Weiser
- City of Whitefish
- College of Western Idaho
- Cook Inlet Housing Authority
- Cook Inlet Lending Center
- Cook Inlet Tribal Council
- Copper River Basin Regional Housing
- Covenant House Alaska
- Donlin Gold
- Downtown Boise Association
- Doyon Foundation
- Eastern Aleutians Tribes
- Fairbanks North Star Borough
- Girdwood Health Clinic Inc.
- Gulkana Village Council
- Haines Borough
- Hamakua Institute
- Idaho Botanical Garden
- Idaho Children’s Trust Fund
- Idaho Commission on the Arts
- Idaho Federation of Families for Children
- Idaho Office for Refugees
- Idaho STEM Action Center
- International Rescue Committee Boise
- Jesse Tree of Idaho
- Juneau Housing First Collaborative
- Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Kenaitze Indian Tribe
- Ketchikan Community Reentry Coalition
- Ketchum Urban Renewal Agency
- Knik Tribal Council
- Knik Tribe Benteh Wellness Center
- Kodiak Area Native Association
- Koniag Education Foundation
- Mammoth Lakes Housing
- Maniilaq Association
- Mat-Su Basin Salmon Habitat Partnership
- Mat-Su Food Coalition
- Mat-Su Health Foundation
- Mat-Su Senior Services
- Municipality of Anchorage Health Dept
- NAMI Alaska
- National Park Service, Alaska Region
- Native Village of Chenega
- Native Village of Eyak
- Native Village of Iliamna
- NeighborWorks Alaska
- Nevada County Public Health
- North Slope Borough
- North Tahoe Community Alliance
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Norton Sound Health Corporation
- Nuvista Light & Electric Cooperative, Inc
- Olgoonik Corporation
- Partners for Progress
- Pedro Bay Corporation
- Petersburg Borough
- Providence Health and Services, Alaska
- PWS Regional Citizens Advisory Council
- Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska
- Rasmuson Foundation
- Recover Alaska
- Set Free Alaska
- Seward Community Health Center
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
- Sierra Business Council
- Sierra Community House
- Sierra Watershed Education Partnership
- SILC of Alaska
- Sitka Homeless Coalition
- Snug Harbor Seafoods, Inc.
- South Peninsula Hospital
- Southeast Alaska Independent Living
- Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference.
- Sprout Family Services
- Standing Together Against Rape
- Tahoe Prosperity Center
- Tahoe Truckee Airport District
- Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation
- Tanana Chiefs Conference
- Teck Alaska Incorporated, Red Dog Corpora
- The Alaska Center
- The Kuskokwim Corporation (TKC)
- The Nature Conservancy Idaho
- The Nature Conservancy of Alaska
- thread
- Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority
- Town of Truckee
- Tribal Government of Saint Paul Island
- Truckee Donner Land Trust
- Truckee Tahoe Airport District
- Truckee Tahoe Workforce Housing Agency
- True North Recovery
- Tulalip Tribes
- Tundra Women’s Coaliton
- Twin Hills Village Council
- Tyonek Tribal Conservation District
- United Way of Anchorage
- United Way of Treasure Valley
- Univeristy of Idaho
- University of Alaska Anchorage
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- US Fish & Wildlife Service
- USDA Forest Service
- Valley Regional Transit
- Voice of Arctic Iñupiat
- Volunteers of America Alaska
- Working Against Violence for Everyone
- World Wildlife Fund US Arctic Program
- Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center
- Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation
