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Stories about: Alaska

Our History
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.

How Wells Fargo helps to preserve Alaskan heritage

Our 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.

Our People
Story Type Indicator - video. Nili Sundown, wearing a red Wells Fargo coat, looks off into the distance as she travels by boat in Alaska.

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

Our People

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.

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Volunteering & Giving
Story Type Indicator - video. Members of the 2017 Warriors to Summits team cross a glacial stream in the backcountry of Denali National Park & Preserve.

Warriors take their final expedition as a team

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.

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

When life gives you lemons, start your own business

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.

Volunteering & Giving
Story Type Indicator - video. U.S. Army veteran Eric Johnson trains for a mountaineering expedition as part of Warriors to Summits.

Overcoming barriers together: The 2017 Warriors to Summits team

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.

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Homeownership
The Rev. Barry Washington (right) and Solomon Gore in front of Gore’s home, which was made possible by the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Priority Markets Program.

Breathing life — and hope — into distressed communities

Homeownership

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.

Environment
An agriculture program at Alaska Pacific University is increasing food security in Alaska by bringing fresh vegetables to residents who need them.

Bringing more fresh produce to Alaskans’ tables

Environment

Bringing more fresh produce to Alaskans’ tables

An agriculture program at Alaska Pacific University is increasing the number of farmers who bring fresh vegetables to residents who need them.

Volunteering & Giving
Alaska Natives celebrate the return of the land

Returning land to Alaska Natives

Volunteering & Giving

Returning land to Alaska Natives

Wells Fargo is donating a piece of treasured land near Anchorage, Alaska, to the Native Village of Eklutna, a group of Alaska Natives.

Economic Opportunity
Photo of Jennifer Shryock and her mother Mary. Jennifer and her fellow students in rural Alaska are learning about the variety of careers available in their small town.

Small town, broad horizons for students in rural Alaska

Economic Opportunity

Small town, broad horizons for students in rural Alaska

Students in the Alaska community of King Salmon, with a population fewer than 900, learn that the variety of careers available to them probably is larger than they think.

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