Join us in welcoming new additions to the Rasmuson Foundation team. Our new staff members include our first IT operations manager as well as administrative help to keep operations running smoothly. We are growing to better serve Alaska.
Rasmuson Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2019 Individual Artist Awards. The awards are solely for artists living and working in Alaska.
Cabins in the wilderness, new ways of working with Alaska’s youth, and an assisted living home in the Bering Strait region are among the areas of investment recently approved by the Rasmuson Foundation board of directors. At its biannual meeting, the board approved more than $6.5 million in awards.
Time to think. Time to reconnect with friends and family. Time to let your organization grow — without you. Leaders of five Alaska nonprofit organizations will get that treasured time through a 2019 Rasmuson Foundation Sabbatical Award.
To help us operate more efficiently, the Foundation is hiring its first chief of staff. We are happy to announce that program officer Jeff Baird is filling that position.
Dick Mandsager, a pediatrician who spent his early childhood in West Africa and went on to lead two Anchorage hospitals, is Rasmuson Foundation’s first senior fellow. He is delaying his planned retirement to focus on homelessness for the next three years
“Over the past decade, the Rasmuson Foundation’s partnership with Alaska Housing Finance Corporation has done more than simply invest dollars in developments: it has single-handedly saved two essential development programs from elimination,” said Bryan Butcher, executive director of AHFC.
A therapeutic court for Mat-Su families in crisis, a new roof for a Fairbanks homeless shelter and a portable health clinic for the eroding Northwest Alaska village of Kivalina were among 16 projects recently approved by the Rasmuson Foundation Board of Directors.
Rasmuson Foundation is delighted to announce our 2018 summer intern, Brandon McIntire, who already is giving back to his community. He comes to us through the First Alaskans Institute after completing his first year at Harvard University, where he is studying economics and psychology. He is the only Alaska Native student there and one of few Native Americans.
Executive director sabbaticals can strengthen nonprofit organizations, according to a new report jointly released today by the Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program; the Barr Foundation; the Durfee Foundation; the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust; and Rasmuson Foundation.
