Alaska Archives - Wells Fargo Stories

Three teenagers and one adult with their backs facing us are walking toward a large house with the letters NACTEC across the entrance. A mountain is in the background.

In one of the most remote areas in North America, the Northwestern Alaska Career and Technical Center is equipping teens with the education and skills they need to thrive.

Two side-by-side images show a room with display cases holding clothing items and baskets. On the walls are other display cases with a number of artifacts.

History

How Wells Fargo helps to preserve Alaskan heritage

Wells Fargo’s Alaska Heritage Museum in Anchorage has more than 6,000 Alaska Native artifacts, thanks to efforts to keep them in their place of origin.

Nili Sundown, wearing a red Wells Fargo coat, looks off into the distance as she travels by boat in Alaska.

Volunteering & Giving

It’s a boat! It’s a plane! It’s a Wells Fargo banker!

Wells Fargo's Nili Sundown travels thousands of miles each year — via plane, boat, and even snowmobile — to ensure her customers have the financial resources they need to survive the wilderness of rural Alaska.

Members of the 2017 Warriors to Summits team cross a glacial stream in the backcountry of Denali National Park & Preserve.

Volunteering & Giving

Warriors take their final expedition as a team

Members of the 2017 No Barriers Warriors to Summits team faced grizzly bears, sleet, and other difficult conditions as they embarked on their final expedition together.

Lemonade Day is a free program that teaches kids how to start, own, and operate their own business — a lemonade stand.

Volunteering & Giving

When life gives you lemons, start your own business

Find out how creating a lemonade stand teaches kids about profit-making goals, serving customers, repaying investors — and giving back to their communities.

U.S. Army veteran Eric Johnson trains for a mountaineering expedition as part of Warriors to Summits.

Volunteering & Giving

Overcoming barriers together: The 2017 Warriors to Summits team

Meet some of the members of the 2017 No Barriers Warriors to Summits team. The team recently completed their second training expedition together.

Housing

Breathing life — and hope — into distressed communities

From the homeless in North Carolina to the unemployed in Alaska, individuals and families are better off thanks to a Priority Markets effort aimed at neighborhood revitalization.