Making It: Ready for any event challenge

Event management company Alaska Destination Specialists creates custom Alaska experiences for international companies and produces events for local organizations, such as First National’s Employee Centennial Celebration. Learn how they thrive in a changing world in the latest edition of Making It in the Anchorage Daily News.

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Donations help provide essential items for neighbors in need

Healy Branch Manager Kevin Lundeberg (left) met with Neighbor to Neighbor board member Barb Walters to donate 25 packets that included supplies to take showers and wash clothes as well as enough tokens for the equivalent of 100 showers to help neighbors in need as part of the bank’s Centennial Giving Today, Shaping Tomorrow project.…

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OFF THE CUFF: Betsy Lawer

For their June issue, Alaska Business profiled First National Board Chair and CEO/President Betsy Lawer for their Off the Cuff feature. She shares about the first thing she does after getting home from work, what it takes to be successful in what she does and more.  Read the article here.

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First National Bank Alaska’s $25,000 sponsorship of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council Education Innovation Fund brings nine-year total to $230,000

(ANCHORAGE) First National Bank Alaska continued its long history of support for Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) and the Native Youth Olympics (NYO) with a $25,000 donation to CITC for their Education Innovation Fund. The fund supports educational and cultural programs such as the games recently held at the Alaska Airlines Center. This year’s bank…

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First National reelects board of directors

ANCHORAGE – First National reelected all ten of its directors to their Board positions during the bank’s annual shareholder meeting on April 26, 2022. The current board is comprised of Board Chair and CEO/President Betsy Lawer, Vice Chair Lucy Mahan, Adm. Tom Barrett, USCG (ret.), Lead Director Perry Eaton, Margy Johnson, Jane Klopfer, Doug Longacre,…

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