Note: This article originally appeared in the Anchorage Daily News through a partnership with ConocoPhillips Alaska and is republished here with permission. United Way of Anchorage is looking to the future. The long-standing nonprofit may be best known for its helpline, Alaska 2-1-1, or for its many partnerships extending across the state: From health care […]
Holiday office hours and year-end giving
United Way of Anchorage will be closed on: Friday, Dec. 23 Monday, Dec. 26 Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. If you would like to make a gift at this time, and you would like your gift to have the greatest chance to count towards the 2022 tax year, we encourage donors to do one of the […]
Parents are the foundation of Cradle to Career Anchorage
Here at United Way of Anchorage, we believe that one of the building blocks for success is education, and sometimes that means educating yourself. Before launching Cradle to Career Anchorage, an educational initiative designed to truly support parents and families, we turned to the experts—the parents themselves. A typical meeting had a small group of […]
Home at last
For the first time in a long while, Alice is thinking about her future. After more than ten years of living outside and in shelters, she now has her own apartment thanks to Home for Good. Having a place to stay means everything to her. A place away from the daily urgent considerations of safety, […]
Tocqueville Community Service Award 2022
Petter and Janet Jahnsen have been named the 2022 recipients of the United Way of Anchorage Alexis de Tocqueville Society Community Service Award. Fifteen years ago, Petter and Janet joined the Tocqueville Society, a group of generous donors in the Anchorage community. From this group the Tocqueville Society Community Service Award is presented to a […]
The Heart of a Volunteer
Kathleen Plunkett’s community resume is more than 40 years long and starts right in her Russian Jack neighborhood in East Anchorage, where she volunteered with the Russian Jack Community Council and eventually served 16 years as the council president (1990-2016). That fact alone testifies to Plunkett’s stamina and devotion as a volunteer. One of the […]
Rebuilding Our Community
Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic has rightly dominated the work of United Way of Anchorage and its dozens of partners for the last two years. From rent assistance and restaurant and hunger relief to childcare support and outreach into underserved communities for accurate COVID information and vaccine access, United Way has been a leader, […]
Walk 4 Warmth 2022
Published March 4, 2022, by Frank Gerjevic Would that we could Walk 4 Warmth all together again. Two years ago, United Way of Anchorage gathered partners old and new and restarted the Walk 4 Warmth to help our neighbors with rent and utility assistance. Few, if any of us, knew just how timely that walk […]
Peer Leader Navigators Lead The Way
Start with a startling fact – the overall health of immigrants and refugees who come to Alaska declines during the first five years they’re here. That’s not peculiar to Alaska; it’s part of a well-documented American experience for new arrivals, a result of culture shock and all the barriers encountered in a new land. Our […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
Dom Meriweather recently sat down his 5-year-old daughter and explained why the work done by Martin Luther King Jr. was so important. “I told her that during those times, we weren’t treated as equals, and that we were looked down upon,” Meriweather said. Meriweather spent the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service by working […]
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