Anchorage
In Anchorage, a fresh sense of urgency on homelessness
The municipality, business leaders, service providers and partners including Rasmuson Foundation are looking into promising solutions with a fresh sense of urgency. Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz on Thursday announced steps for an improved community response to homelessness.Steller Experimental Economics Workshop
It is Monday morning two weeks before summer vacation, and the Steller Secondary students in Mr. Ken Varee’s social studies classroom are shouting. This behavior takes place under the encouraging supervision of UAA economics professors Kyle Hampton and Jim Murphy and research assistant/former student Dan Allen. These students are the lucky few who secured positions in the Experimental Economics Workshop, a special course focusing on the participatory use of economics.New housing development opens in Mountain View
Today we celebrate the grand opening of Ridgeline Terrace with a guest post written by Kirsten Swann of the Mt. View Post.Considering Mountain View
In 2003, Rasmuson Foundation made its first grants in a project to revitalize Anchorage's Mountain View Neighborhood. This type of focused investment was new for the Foundation. Did it make a difference? Rasmuson Foundation President Diane Kaplan revisits Mountain View through a new evaluation of the Foundation's work in the neighborhood.
It Takes a Network to Feed Hungry Alaskans
The years had disappeared. My home had fallen apart; my children were gone. My possessions had all been lost or abandoned. The only thing I had left was a happy little mutt named Gypsy I had rescued from the dog pound years before.
Let me win; But if I cannot win; Let me be brave in the attempt
Anchorage’s Sullivan Arena is a big place. For a concert or a basketball game, it can seat more people — 8,700 — than live in most Alaska communities
Special Olympics Alaska needed a big place the night all the volunteers gathered for a final farewell.
A place for teenagers to go when they don’t have any other place…
On this cold December evening, as a group of citizens in this Anchorage community gather in a little downtown park, I remember a March night in 1983. Three teenagers, Samantha, Kris and I were somewhere in the Tennessee hills, on a Trailways bus, leaving behind chaos and confusion, bad parents, bad friends, bad lives, heading for something, anything better.
Alaskans’ social and cultural meeting place
Elvera Voth stood on the scarred wooden stage talking to mezzo-soprano Sherri Weiler and baritone Jim Lanier, who were rehearsing a duet from Don Giovanni. The other 29 members of the Alaska Chamber Singers were milling around the stage, talking, drinking tea, eyeing a table laden with sausage, bread and cheese.
The crossroads of indigenous knowledge and western science
The first time I went out on the ice during whaling season in Barrow was in the spring of 1973. I’d barely been there for six months and, as a recently transplanted New Yorker, was blissfully ignorant of any danger that didn’t involve derelicts with squeegees.
Media Mentions
- The development of Nordic skiing in Anchorage is documented in new book ‘On Track!’ March 30
- Expanded Bean’s Café offering 10K daily meals March 22
- Juneau artist Crystal Worl takes Tlingit culture to the national level — through a postage stamp - Alaska Beacon March 22
- Juneau artist Crystal Worl takes Tlingit culture to the national level — through a postage stamp March 22