Catholic Social Services Alaska Receives Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant to Help Solve Homelessness
Day 1 Families Fund grants $98.5 million to 32 nonprofits assisting families experiencing homelessness.
Clare House Combats Homelessness Among Women and Children
Women and children in Alaska face homelessness every day. It’s a cruel fact the staff and volunteers at Clare House work hard to combat.
ConocoPhillips invests in Community Housing Project
Catholic Social Services is pleased to announce a $150,000 grant from ConocoPhillips Alaska for the Community Housing Project.
We’re Still Here
The recent state budget cuts have proven difficult for local non-profits. The good news is that we’re still here.
Catholic Social Services: Impacting the lives of those in need
At Catholic Social Services we want to focus on lasting and permanent stability.
Homeless services in Alaska face uncertain future as state cuts back
Allan Lamprey had been homeless for almost all his adult life. Struggling with substance and alcohol use, he moved around the country, from his home state of Virginia, to Maryland and then out to California. Eventually, he made his way up to Alaska in 2008.
A letter to our Alaska community
We are reaching out to you in faith and solidarity, because the values we share as a community, and as Alaskans, bond us together. Only together can we find a solution to the situation we are all in now.
Help Path to Independence Win $15,000
Update: We did it! Because of the support of community members like you, Path to Independence won this $15,000 award to continue working with our neighbors experiencing homelessness. Thank you to everyone who made this funding possible!
Investing in homeless services makes sense
Author: Gary FergusonOpinion: Michael FredericksPublished May 3 by the Anchorage Daily News Homelessness is a shared problem in our communities across the state of Alaska. Together, we need to support…
Making a difference on homelessness begins with how we see people
Driving through Anchorage it’s possible not to see people. Not all people, of course — we’d still see our siblings or our neighbors. But through practice and repetition, we’ve attained a lamentable talent of clouding our vision. It acts as a buffer to our conscience: We see not a person, but a category: “the homeless.”