Did you know that you can add or adjust your charitable giving through Pick.Click.Give Alaska through August 31st? This means if you happened to forget to give to the Homer Foundation when you filed for your PFD, you can go into your application and make this change. Here at the Homer Foundation, we know how important your financial decisions are … Read More
Pay It Forward: Where there’s a will there’s a way
I suspect that each of us have thought about how we can make our lives more meaningful. Do we find a greater purpose in serving others? Helping abused children? Getting involved in politics? Inspiring youth to play sports or get involved in art or theater? Saving salmon habitat? Building community? Often, the value we hope to impart on the world … Read More
International Pay It Forward Day
Friday, April 28th is International Pay It Forward Day, an annual day of giving celebrated around the world since 2007. It’s a global initiative to spread kindness through small acts of generosity. With more than eighty countries and millions of people participating, the goal is to change the world for the better – one person and one small act of … Read More
Pick.Click. and Give Where You Live
With a new year upon us, we mark a new season of Pick.Click.Give., the charitable check off program that allows all Alaska Permanent Fund filers to give back to causes that they care most about. It is hard to find an easier way to pay it forward. Pick.Click.Give. also provides an unprecedented opportunity to raise the level of awareness throughout … Read More
Pay It Forward
Homer Foundation pays it forward by giving $2.5 million in 25 years Posted in the Homer News: April 28, 2016 By Shannon McBride–Morin Walking with 25 kids over to the Pratt Museum the other day in the sun, I was feeling grateful that I got to go along as a parent chaperone. Fifth-graders with spring fever were skipping ahead of me … Read More
LOVE FIRST
Love First February, the shortest month of the year follows January, and has 95 holidays, some bizarre and others we hold dear. Ground Hog Day (in Alaska marmots are the substitute), President’s Day, Valentine’s Day when love gets honored with everything from flowers to far away trips. Super Bowl Sunday ended February 7, Mardi Gras/ Fat Tuesday the 9th, Ash … Read More
Ode to Philanthropy
On a recent trip to Seattle, WA Homer Foundation board member Denise Pitzman happened upon a street vendor selling poetry, “your topic, your price”. He goes by William the Poet and you can learn more about him here: http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2014/09/11/poetry-your-topic-your-price/15479043/. Denise selected PHILANTHROPY as her topic and told him she lived in a small, town in Alaska. William typed the poem … Read More
“It takes a village to raise a child”
By Megan Murphy Posted in the Homer News December 2015 I thought I had my ducks somewhat in a row before I became a mother. Apparently, I don’t even have ducks but a menagerie of birds that can be erratic in their behavior, to say the least. I recall hearing, “Having children is both the hardest and best thing I’ve … Read More
Vision, hard work, money create great place to live
Posted in the Homer News, November 25, 2015 By Mercedes O’Leary Harness I was 5 the first time I flew to Alaska by myself to visit my dad. We drove the impossibly long road to Homer, and when we arrived I was sure we were in the wrong place. In my absence a real grocery store had been built, roads … Read More
Homer Foundation fund will help honor teachers
Posted: June 25, 2015 – Homer News Years ago I remember being at the chalkboard in mathematics class, my back to a class of students, and saying, “If you are going to write notes (this before cell phones and texting), you best do that between classes.” Later a student asked how I knew and I remember saying, “A teacher and … Read More