Washington, DC &emdash; Sonjara client the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) won the National Impact Award from the National Indian Health Board for the Knowledge Resource Center for Urban Indian Health (KRC), an online repository of key health publications and legislative information for non-profits and health clinics targeting urban Native Americans. Sonjara was the technical designer and implementer for the two releases of the KRC, using its open source framework, Fakoli.

Project Director Alejandro Bermudez-del-Villar, who won the award, said "The KRC is unique in the sense that it is a central hub for sharing information and other specific resources that are hard to find. These programs need access to pertinent and timely information, especially now that the Health Care Reform policies implementation is taking place. The KRC allows them to access the national and sectoral information they need to help expand their leadership, create awareness, and empower their local communities through technical assistance and outreach projects."

The KRC is the first resource center devoted to the fostering and dissemination of knowledge on urban Indian communities across the United States. Its goal is to alleviate the lack of information on the condition of urban American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) and to generate informational tools to be used by and shared among urban Indian leaders to educate policymakers, federal officials, and the general public. It offers comprehensive information to as many audiences as possible, utilizing a variety of electronic media (text, video, image, audio, etc.).

Originally created as an academic clearinghouse in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services/Office of Minority Health (DHHS/OMH), the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) and the Indian Health Service (IHS) and with the collaboration of the National Libraries of Medicine, the University of New Mexico, and the Oregon Health and Sciences University's OneSky Center, the project evolved into a Knowledge Resource Center to provide policy, legislative, and technical assistance tools and documents to urban American Indians/Alaska Natives to expand their capacities and represent their interests locally and nationally.