Non-profits and their role in Alaska

Alaska Public Media | By Ellen Lockyer

Published July 24, 2015 at 12:01 PM AKDT

Alaska has somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 non-profits, and their important role in supporting community needs throughout the state is undeniable. Today we'll be examining that role, and how it has grown over the past half century.

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HOST: Ellen Lockyer

GUESTS:

Susan Foley, president, Alaska Community Foundation

Sarah Scanlon, deputy executive director, RuralCap

Hilary Morgan, CEO, YWCA

KSKA (FM 91.1) BROADCAST: Friday, July 24, at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 25 at 6:00 p.m.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone. Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org | 907.550.8446 | About Ellen

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