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 […]

Published December 12, 2021, by Frank Gerjevic  There’s still time to sign up for health care – and navigators to show the way. The woman came with her shoulders hunched, braced for bad news. Instead of bad news, she met Jennifer Brandt, one of United Way’s health care navigators working at an Affordable Care Act […]

Published October 4, 2021, by John Sims Hi, I’m John Sims, President of ENSTAR Natural Gas Company and this year’s United Way of Anchorage Community Campaign Chair. For decades, ENSTAR has worked closely with United Way, and for the last 16 years I’ve had the pleasure of being a part of that work. Keeping our […]

Published July 26, 2021, by Cecelia DeKorne Kindergarten in the 2020s is a tougher gig than play, sing and snack, and only one-third of Anchorage children are kindergarten-ready on the first day of school. It’s a sobering notion that only a third of our children are ready for kindergarten, but that should challenge rather than […]

Published July 18, 2021, by Frank Gerjevic Michele Brown and Jeff Berliner have been named the 2021 winners of the United Way of Anchorage Alexis de Tocqueville Society Community Service Award. The Tocqueville Community Service Award goes each year to a member or members of the society of leading United Way supporters who best exemplify […]

Published June 18, 2021, by Frank Gerjevic At 17, Jordan Lind-Charliaga could have become a statistic, and he certainly counts among the wounded. But he’s also a renaissance man in the making. Jordan is a graduate of the Back on Track Class of 2021. Back on Track is the five-year-old initiative of United Way of […]

Published June 4, 2021, by Frank Gerjevic On June 19, 2021, Juneteenth Anchorage will mark the 1865 day in Galveston, Texas, when word finally reached those who had been slaves that their bondage had been declared over more than two years before with the Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln. Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation […]

Let’s put the bottom line at the top: Restaurant and Hunger Relief raised attendance at the Step Up school program by 40 percent. That was the word from Wiley Bland, a teacher at Step Up, an alternative school for Anchorage middle and high school students who have been suspended for at least a semester or […]

Published September 30, 2020, by Mike Abbott et al.  It’s news to no one in Anchorage that homelessness is one of our most complex challenges. The homelessness response system serves 8,000 people each year. And on any given night, more than 1,000 people lack a safe and stable place to live. Of those, a small […]