Alaska Nonprofit Groups Get New Health-Insurance Program
July 23, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
An organization that supports nonprofit groups in Alaska has teamed up with the Rasmuson Foundation to provide health insurance to employees at nonprofit organizations, reports The Anchorage Daily News.
The Rasmuson Foundation will contribute more than $2-million to get the program started, the paper reports. It is working with the Foraker Group to provide the health-insurance coverage.
“Having something like this is just phenomenal,” Charlotte Fox, executive director of Alaska State Council on the Arts, a state umbrella agency for arts organizations, tells the newspaper. Many such groups, she says, have been unable to afford traditional health insurance. “The field has been waiting for it for a really, really long time.”
