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GLIMPSES OF WHO WE ARE

"Let me win; But if I cannot win; Let me be brave in the attempt"
By Mike Doogan
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. More than 6,000 volunteers had helped put on the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games, and the party, thrown a month after the Games ended, was a way to thank them all. READ MORE 
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ART ON DISPLAY

Stroll through a collection of compelling contemporary Alaskan work brought together through the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Fund. The Fund supports living, practicing Alaskan artists through museum purchases, enhances the permanent art collections of Alaskan museums, and encourages Alaskan museums to develop formal collections policies.

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Rasmuson Foundation is a catalyst to promote a better life for Alaskans.