Seventeen Alaskan nonprofits will share in $9.7 million from Rasmuson Foundation; gifts range from $1.65m to $200,000.
"Seventeen Alaska nonprofit groups from Nome to Ketchikan have an additional reason to be thankful this holiday. They are recipients of grants from the Rasmuson Foundation amounting to $9.7 million. The grants, announced Nov. 26, are part of the foundation's Tier 2 program which awards money for capital projects of more than $25,000, expansion and start-up efforts deemed to have broad significance and 'projects of strategic importance or innovative nature.'" -- Mike Dunham, the Anchorage Daily News
