Spreading Social Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

If solidarity could kill a virus, COVID-19 would be fading fast. We may be in a time of social isolation, but it is acts of social solidarity that are our deepest social connections right now. Social solidarity goes beyond feelings like kindness, compassion, and empathy. It’s about embracing the common good: seeing the importance of […]

Update: As coronavirus (COVID-19) developments change hour by hour, AARP Foundation and United Way of Anchorage are doing our part to flatten the curve of transmission. A top priority for us is ensuring we are protecting those most at risk, including our volunteers and taxpayers. Therefore, we are suspending Free Tax Preparation in Anchorage beginning […]

Yes, we all can do something about homelessness in Anchorage. We can help to prevent it. Keeping people housed is the purpose of the Walk 4 Warmth on Friday, February 7, when United Way of Anchorage will lead a half-mile walk along the Delaney Park Strip and C Street from First Presbyterian Church to the […]

LIVE UNITED – so much more than a tag line as we close the decade of a tumultuous 2019. Instability in our economy and politics, news of BP selling its Alaska assets, and the aftershocks of a major earthquake created an air of uncertainty, even fragility. But the perspective in the rear-view mirror reaffirms the […]

United Way of Anchorage invites you to join us over the next few weeks as we track Home for Good, an initiative to end homelessness for some of our neighbors among the hardest to house. This carefully planned collaboration, using proven methods, promises new light in the lives of people too often written off, better […]

Take ten Anchorage churches, add hundreds of volunteers, fortify with the work of the Municipality, AWAIC and Alaska 2-1-1, and what do you get? Zero. As in zero winter nights that a family experiencing homelessness had to spend unsheltered. For 10 years running, from the first of October to the middle of May, the churches […]

United Way of Anchorage invites you to join us over the next few weeks as we track Home for Good, an initiative to end homelessness for some of our neighbors among the hardest-to-house. This carefully planned collaboration, using proven methods, promises new light in the lives of people too often written off, better use of […]

United Way of Anchorage invites you to join us over the next few weeks as we track Home for Good, an initiative to end homelessness for some of our neighbors among the hardest-to-house. This carefully planned collaboration, using proven methods, promises new light in the lives of people too often written off, better use of […]

We’re glad that neither T-shirts nor the notion of “LIVE UNITED” have gone out of style. Black shirts emblazoned with the words across a map of Alaska were a hit with guests at our September 10th kickoff luncheon for the United Way of Anchorage Community Campaign. We’re counting on the message to last longer than […]

This week is United Way of Anchorage Community Campaign Week. The week begins on Tuesday and features keynote speaker William Browning at the annual campaign-kickoff lunch. Browning, United Way Worldwide’s senior vice president and chief strategy and transformation officer, will talk about coming together to mobilize the caring power of community – in a time […]