YOU HELP US MAKE AN IMPACT IN OUR COMMUNITY BY LIFTING UP ALASKANS.

We’re grateful to collaborate with many community members, including you! Working together, we’re creating and funding solutions around a common vision so that we all have opportunities to thrive. To make an impact with us, you'll want to know all about us. Read on to find out just who we are and how we help Alaska.

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United Way Staff in the 1980s

Strategic Investments

Thanks to your support, we make strategic investments that help Alaskans achieve financial security, live in a healthy community, and provide youth opportunities. The resources that you entrust us with make our work possible and Alaskans’ lives better.

Community Commitment

Since 1956, we’ve been a community convener that supports nonprofits and initiatives that address tough challenges. From our first leader, Lucy Cuddy, to our current President and CEO, Eric Utraq Billingsley, we've remained committed to helping Alaskans thrive.

OUR MISSION

We unite caring people to give, volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities and solve our community’s toughest challenges. Learn more.

OUR VISION

Anchorage is a diverse, vibrant community where everyone can achieve their potential.

OUR VALUES

Leadership. Collaboration. Results-Focused. Stewardship. Equity.

OUR WORK

Financial Security. Healthy Community. Youth Opportunity. Learn more.

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Alaska Native Dancers at 2023 Community Campaign Kickoff

We help achieve more inclusion and equality by convening diverse people and perspectives. In all work, we strive to meet the following principles and values. 

People, and all the visible and invisible qualities that make us who we are, are at the center of our work. We integrate the voices of underrepresented communities into all policy, program, and resource decisions. We ensure equitable access to services, programs, opportunities, and information. We build diverse partnerships to eliminate disparities and multiply our impact.

Nonprofit Creation

What an honor to have had a forefront role in creating these Alaska nonprofits! By piloting programs and convening community members, we set Anchorage Project Access, Best Beginnings, and The Foraker Group up for success. Now, they're helping Alaskans even more than we imagined possible. Thank you!

Initiative Incubation

Community change starts with good ideas, helping hands, and hard work. We're grateful to have had opportunities to nurture and sustain initiatives that lead to lasting, positive change in Alaskans' lives...and we're continuing to seek and further those type of efforts, thanks to our Community Impact Agenda.


Learn more about United Way of Anchorage by visiting these webpages!