Fall 2019 Fairbanks Nonprofit Resource Guide

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Our nonprofits are essential to life in Fairbanks

By Rod Boyce rboyce@newsminer.com Nonprofit social service organizations help make a community what it is.

True, business is the engine that makes a community thrive and grow. And in some communities, like Fairbanks, government jobs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether local, state or federal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; make an undeniable contribution toward the local economy.

Yet it is the nonprofits that bring something special because of the simple absence of the need to raise money beyond what is necessary to serve their part of the community and to remain financially stable.

These organizations are vital to any community. They rely on donations of time and money, whether that money comes from

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individuals, from businesses, from ticket sales at events or from grants.

Their income, however, is buffeted by the economy and politics.

And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no question that this year has been a turbulent one for nonprofits in our town.

But the dollar amounts may dwindle on occasion, the demand for their services goes on. Nonprofit organizations in the Fairbanks region fill so many roles. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a small taste of their vital work, as written in some Daily News-Miner stories over the past 12 months: t 'SPN B +VMZ TUPSZ about the impact of state budget cuts: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Run

by Fairbanks Youth Advocates Director Marylee Bates, The Door is a youth shelter that operates 24 hours a

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day and provides food, clothing and shelter to homeless or intransition youths. The shelter is able to house 12 youths at a time and operates with two fulltime staff.â&#x20AC;?

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t 'SPN B +VMZ TUPSZ also about the impact of state budget cuts: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love INC serves about 1,500 families a year providing assistance with case management services, education and prevention services, financial education and poverty prevention education and transportation along with a running a rotating family shelter throughout the year.â&#x20AC;?

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The list of nonprofits working to improve life and lives in Fairbanks is a long one. What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear time and again from those who work in and with these organizations is that Fairbanks is a giving region.

Rodney Gaskins is one t 'SPN B +VOF of those people. He is story: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In response to the executive director an evacuation noof the Fairbanks Rescue tice issued to certain Mission.

Murphy Dome area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never the same. subdivisions just after But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always just amazmidnight Sunday, the Red Cross of Alaska has ing,â&#x20AC;? he said in a November 2018 story about the missionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Thanksgiving dinner for people in need. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like to tell people that in my position I sit at a vantage point where I get to see the generosity in this community that a lot donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to see.â&#x20AC;?

The nonprofits that serve our region are big and small. They proset up an evacuation shelter at Randy Smith vide social services, arts Middle School to help and entertainment, and sports. They help keep Fairbanks residents displaced by the Shovel Creek Fire burning north of Fairbanks.â&#x20AC;? t 'SPN B +BO TUPSZ about the Fairbanks Community Food Bank: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year, the food bank brought in 2.7 million pounds of donated food, provided NFBMT BOE EJE The Door Youth Shelter

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people healthy. They assist older residents and younger ones. They assist homeless people.

They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do what they do, however, unless they have help.

Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time or money, giving to these organizations means you are giving to your community.

Even in difficult times, see what you can do to help them, for someday you may need them to help you.

Rod Boyce is editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.Â

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1.11.19 Snapshot: Team members from Fairbanks and North Pole Safeway stores present Odette Butler with The Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska a check for $20,000.00 to help support their mission. For months, more than 30 volunteers from the Safeway stores hosted bake sales, rummage sales and an auction dinner fundraiser to raise money to fight breast cancer. BCDC is incredibly grateful for community support like this and thanks everyone who was involved in these incredible fundraising efforts. Mackenzie Smith, Fairbanks

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3.21.19 Snapshot: Elena Sudduth and Lael Oldmixon, of UA College Savings Plan, present a check to Pat Druckenmiller, Director of UA Museum of the North, in support of the museum’s family programs. The museum offers a full suite of family programs designed to share science, culture and art with learners of all ages. Thank you to UA College Savings Plan for sponsoring family programs. UAF photo by JR Ancheta. Aelin Allegood, Development Coordinator University of Alaska Museum of the North

4.3.19 Snapshot: At the recent opening night performance of “NUNSENSE—The Musical Comedy,” produced by Fairbanks Drama Association, the show’s sponsors, Bert and Becky Bell were celebrated and thanked for their generous support. From left, in photo: Becky Bell, Bert Bell, Peggy Ferguson, Director and Choreographer for “NUNSENSE,” and, helping to hold the ‘nuncake’—FDA Board President Cindy Wright.

5.3.19 Snapshot: Mrs. Roth’s 2/3 class from University Park Elementary donated $100 to the animal shelter. The classes used money from a pumpkin sale fundraiser they held earlier in the year. Savannah McCarney, class mayor, is handing the check to shelter volunteer Ronnie Rosenberg. Beth Roth, Fairbanks

6.28.19 From left, Randy Pitney, Victoria Denning, Courtney Reynolds and Steve Lundgren. Denali State Bank believes in the Blood Bank of Alaska’s motto “Be a Hero and Save a Life.” While the bank is proud to donate $2,000 to help the Blood Bank of Alaska achieve its mission, they are even more proud to be actual blood donors. President and CEO Steve Lundgren is on track to achieve “10 Gallon Club” status. We hope that you’ll join him by donating blood and saving a life for someone in Alaska or across the nation.

6.7.19 Snapshot: Friends of UA Museum of the North present a check to Patrick Druckenmiller, director of UA Museum of the North, center. The Friends of UA Museum of the North challenged the community with a $10,000 matching grant to the museum’s annual fund. A total of over $30,000 was raised for the museum’s annual fund, which is the source of critical funding for the museum’s most immediate needs. Friends of UA Museum of the North board members pictured here, are, from left, Mary Binkley, Donna Dinsmore, Roger Burggraf and Don Gray. The Friends of UAMN support and advocate for funding of the museum as the only research and teaching museum in Alaska, and for the scientific and cultural research that makes it possible. Photo by Greg Martin, Greg Martin Photography

6.27.19 Snapshot: UAF Photo by Sarah Manriquez.

Amy Cook, TOTE Maritime Fairbanks Manager, and Alex Hofeling, TOTE Maritime’s VP and Alaska General Manager, visit with UAF Chancellor Dan White at UA Museum of the North. TOTE Maritime has announced a gift of $60,000 as a three-year commitment to funding UAMN’s Family Days Program. For twenty-two years, TOTE Maritime has been a major corporate partner of the museum, providing funds to grow the museum’s Education and Public Programs.

4.6.19 Snapshot: Cheechako Lions Club donates a total of $37,000 to this local, tuition-free Public Waldorf School. Cheechako Lions, Venessa Seppi, secretary

7.25.19 Snapshot: Judith Crotty, left, and Jennifer Imus, right, of Wells Fargo, present a check to Patrick Druckenmiller, director of UA Museum of the North, in support of the museum’s Military Appreciation Program.

Thanks to this partnership with Wells Fargo, all Alaska-based, active duty military and their immediate families receive free admission to UA Museum of the North. UAF Photo by JR Ancheta

5.19.19 Snapshot: Fort Knox donates $20,000 to IATPF. From left, Ben Barton (IATPF secretary); Helyn Lefgren (vice president); Bartly Kleven (Fort Knox environmental manager); Anna Atchison (Fort Knox external affairs manager); Brian Accola (treasurer) and John Junke (president).

Photo courtesy Geoffrey Orth

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WE APPRECIATE ALASKAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS They provide meals for elders, bring artists into schools and care for those with addictions, mental illness and poor physical health. They work with Alaskans who have experienced homelessness, teens who need a guiding hand and women escaping violence. In those ways and so many more, they promote a better life for Alaskans. Join us in thanking them!

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Host an Exchange Student Today!

Make a lifelong friend from abroad. (for 3, 5 or 10 months) Enrich your family with another culture. Now you can host a high school exchange student (girl or boy) from France, Germany, Scandinavia, Spain, Australia, Japan Brazil, Italy or other countries.

Single parents, as well as couples with or without children, may host.

Contact us ASAP for more information or to select your student.

Amy at 1-800-744-2733 (TOLL FREE) or Bonnie at 541-514-4565 asse.com/become-a-host-family or email info@asse.com

Victoria from Australia, 17 yrs.

Enjoys spending time with her family and younger siblings.

Victoria plays volleyball and is excited to learn new sports while in America.

Giorgio from Italy, 16 yrs.

Loves to play baseball and spend time with his dogs.

Giorgio also plays the guitar, and his dream is to join a drama club at his American high school.

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The Fairbanks Litter Patrol The Fairbanks Litter Patrol recently finished the 2019 season.

Every summer since 1983, young people of fourteen and fifteen years of age are given the opportunity to work, keeping the roads, bike paths, river banks, and other areas around the Fairbanks North Star Borough clean.

The list of individuals that helped to create the ALPAR Fairbanks Litter Patrol reads like a Who’s Who in the annals of Fairbanks history. They include: Dr. William Wood, Dr. Art Buswell, Glenn Hackney, Rick Meyer, and Rose Todd.

The ALPAR Fairbanks Litter Patrol was started by the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, but in 2000 David Drumhiller and Dick Ferris created a non-profit organization that became what the ALPAR Fairbanks Litter Patrol is today.

In 2019 the ALPAR Fairbanks Litter Patrol employed twenty young people from all over the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

During the summer of 2019, ALPAR Fairbanks Litter Patrol collected the following recyclables: 600700 pounds of aluminum, and 300-400 pounds of cardboard. The ALPAR Fairbanks Litter Patrol also found and recycled 2,000 pounds of electronics with the FNSB recycle facility. The bag count for the ALPAR Fairbanks Litter Patrol was more than 2,500 bags, and the total weight of trash was 41,000 pounds. More than 300 miles of roads, bike paths and river, lake and stream banks were cleaned.

Thank you to these supporters of the Fairbanks Litter Patrol:

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“Our Mission is to Serve Alaska by Providing Family and Child Centered Services with Unconditional Care.”

Adolescent Co-Occurring Treatment (ACT)

FCSA operates six (6) homes in Fairbanks and four (4) homes in Wasilla that serve both boys and girls ages 5-18. Each Home is operated and maintained by licensed foster parents and receive support from FCSA. The number of children placed in the home generally averages three (3). The homes are located in residential neighborhoods and are reflective of a family experience rather than an institutional setting.

The children attend public school and are involved in social and recreational activities in the community.

Alternatives to Out-of-State Placement (ATOP)

FCSA operates two YESS Day Treatment programs during the school year, one for elementary age children and a combined program for middle and high school age children. Both programs provide integrated day treatment (behavioral health) and education services. Admittance into the programs is only by referral from the Fairbanks School District.

The majority of children enrolled into the programs have behavioral health issues that result in the children having disruptive behaviors in the public school. The YESS Day Treatment program relies on a low child to staff ratio, generally no greater than 3 to 1, to help alter the children’s behavior so they may return back to the regular public school. Length of enrollment for each child in the program varies greatly.

The maximum enrollment for both YESS Day Treatment programs is approximately 21 children.

Youth Education Support Services (YESS) Day Treatment

Summer Skill Development Program Each summer when school is out, FCSA operates a program for children that allow them to participate in a variety of activities that include job skill development where children work and earn money, and activities that blend instructional learning and fun activities. The program is open to children up age 18.

Respite and Crisis Services (REACH)

Children receiving services through the ATOP program generally have low to moderate behavioral health issues, are able to receive service in an unrestricted environment and reside with their parents, legal guardian or in a foster home. Program services are provided in the community, the family home, or the public school. All services provided are designed taking into consideration the unique strengths, values and needs of each child and family and within the cultural context of each family. Services are available to children five to 18 and with some exception up to age 22.

Therapeutic Foster Group Homes (TFGH) The TFGH program is designed to provide services to children in need of a safe and supportive place to live that are experiencing low to moderate behavioral health issues. Currently

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The REACH program provides respite service to parents, foster parents or guardians of children enrolled in FCSA programs. Services are provided in a residential home and a maximum of five children can be accommodated at each respite session.

Residential Treatment Center The Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is a 24-hour residential program for youth ranging in age from 12-18 (male and female) who are experiencing mental or behavioral health problems and are in need of a stable, therapeutic environment. The RTC is licensed by the State of Alaska as a Residential Child Care Facility

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(RCCF) for a maximum of 70 clients.

All clinical services are provided on-site; including but not limited to individual, group, and family therapy. There are four cottages, connected to a central services and administrative building accessed by enclosed walkways or links.

Each cottage is separated into two units. Each unit has two dayrooms with one designated as a quiet area and the other designated as a central gathering area. Each of the four cottages has a shared activity room. The building also houses a comprehensive education center, cafeteria, full sized gymnasium, and theater for recreation.

Wasilla & Mat-Su Valley Services In Wasilla and the greater Mat-Su Borough FCSA provides outpatient services, clinical services in two area schools, and operates a respite home and four (4) Therapeutic Foster Group Homes for both boys and girls. Each home can provide services for up to five children.

The services provided in the homes are the same as those outlined in the TFGH program.

FCSA also licenses and supports a number of Therapeutic Foster Homes in the area.

FCSA accepts Medicaid, private insurance and has a sliding fee scale.

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Family Centered Services of Alaska (FCSA) is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) corporation founded in 1989. The reason for the establishment of the organization was to provide individualized behavioral and mental health services to children, and young adults experiencing emotional difficulties, in the least restrictive setting. Today, the majority of services delivered by FCSA are provided in Fairbanks or the greater Fairbanks North Star Borough however, FCSA operates programs in the communities of Wasilla, and the Greater Mat-Su Borough. Services are provided

by FCSA through a variety of programs. Each program is tailored to meet the special needs of a particular population of children.

The primary focus of FCSA’s Adolescent CoOccurring Treatment program (ACT) is to provide behavioral health services to youth with a co-occurring diagnoses. Treatment is provided in a nurturing family environment. FCSA believes that a smaller and more individualized treatment setting enhances the ability for youth to succeed; therefore, the capacity of the ACT program will be a total of five youth enrolled at any given time. The length of stay for youth admitted to the program is expected to range from 120 to 365 days. The length of stay will vary, dependent upon the youth’s commitment to treatment, ability to build resiliency and attain measurable behavioral, cognitive and affective changes that support recovery.

1825 Marika Road | Fairbanks, AK 99709 907-474-0890 | 1-800-478-2108

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Tour the facility, visit with friends and have your questions answered.

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Saturday October, 26, 2019 6:30 p.m.

Westmark Gold Room A fundraising gala to develop outpatient services for psychiatry and addition medicine in Fairbanks Presenting sponsor:

Join us for an evening you won’t forget, and don’t miss your chance to be the winning bid – the Silent or Outcry Auction items include: Weekend In Seattle to watch the Seahawks/49ers Game Weekend in Green Bay to watch the Packers/Bears Game 12 Day Holland America/Princess Cruise Trip to South Africa The Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation would like to THANK our sponsors for supporting Behavior Health in Fairbanks:

Contact the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation at 458-5550 or missey-kohler@gfchg.com for sponsorship or table purchase inquiries.

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Please help support our local community today!

“Helping Churches, Help People” for over 30 years in interior Alaska Text LOVEINC to 41444 to donate today! www.loveincfairbanks.org Find us on

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This foundation, in conjunction with the Snedden Family Foundaton, has given to a number of causes, including the creation of a music park in North Pole, the maintenance of fitness trails in North Pole and a Chena River waterfront park on Slater Street called Snedden Memorial Park.

A fire in Fairbanks destroyed an 18-unit apartment building, leaving many of the people who lived there without homes. The foundation added to donations from the rest of the community, giving $5,000 to the Red Cross to help the affected families get back on their feet.

The police chief in North Pole was almost brought to tears at a law enforcement banquet when Virginia Farmier from the foundation surprised him with a $25,000 check for a park honoring law enforcement officers and others killed in the line of duty. This donation helped The Trooper Gabe Rich and Trooper Scott Johnson Memorial Park, which is being developed at the corner of Doughchee Avenue and San Augustin Drive, next to the Thirtymile Slough in North Pole.

When Veterans Memorial Park needed to replace benches the Helen E. Snedden Foundation donated about $600 in materials for the new seats, which took about 100 volunteer hours to build, including six coats of stain and six coats of clear finish.

Farmier is executive director of the Fairbanks-based Helen E. Snedden Foundation, which owns the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and has been donating money to improve Interior parks and other projects since 2014.

The Helen E. Snedden Foundation is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit. Community donations are always welcome; you can contact us at P.O. Box 70432, Fairbanks, AK 99707.