During the last week in August 2013, nine visitors came to Alaska representing seven leading philanthropies. They were Ed Henry, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and wife Susan Monk; Suzanne McCarron, ExxonMobil Foundation; Jim McDonald, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation; Rachel Monroe, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and husband Joel Monroe; Dawn Chirwa, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Anthony Radich, Western States Arts Federation; and Claude Gascon, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The Grantmakers Tour of Alaska, now in its 17th year, is a program of Rasmuson Foundation that helps philanthropies make connections in Alaska. Sponsors for the event are Alaska Community Foundation, Alaska Conservation Foundation, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Alaska Railroad Corporation, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, BP, CIRI, ConocoPhillips Alaska, ExxonMobil, First Alaskans Institute, Hotel Captain Cook, Mat-Su Health Foundation, Municipality of Anchorage, Southcentral Foundation, State of Alaska, The CIRI Foundation, The Foraker Group, United Way of Anchorage, Wells Fargo, and Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation.

2. Welcome conversation with Willie Hensley, Arliss Sturgulewski and Vic Fischer
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AUGUST 25, 2013

3. Vic Fischer, Arliss Sturgulewski and Willie Hensley
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AUGUST 25, 2013

4. Breakfast with Rasmuson Foundation Chair Ed Rasmuson and Senator Lisa Murkowski
AUGUST 26, 2013

5. Suzanne McCarron, ExxonMobil Foundation,
and Senator Lisa Murkowski
AUGUST 26, 2013
Dennis McMillian, The Foraker
Group, and Jim McDonald, Paul G.
Allen Family Foundation

6. AUGUST 26, 2013
Ed Rasmuson and Dawn Chirwa, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

7. Tour of Mountain View
AUGUST 26, 2013
Anthony Radich, Western States Arts Federation

8. Alaska Native Heritage Center
AUGUST 26, 2013

9. Alaska Native Heritage Center
AUGUST 26, 2013

10. Joel Monroe and Rachel Garbow Monroe, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation,
at the Alaska Native Heritage Center
AUGUST 26, 2013

11. Alaska Native Heritage Center
AUGUST 26, 2013

12. Philanthropy lunch at The Foraker Group
AUGUST 26, 2013
Alaska Native Science and
Engineering Program (ANSEP)

13. AUGUST 26, 2013
Katherine Gottlieb, Southcentral Foundation

14. Alaska Native Medical Center
AUGUST 26, 2013

15. Discussion with Senator Mark Begich
AUGUST 26, 2013

16. Discussion with Senator Mark Begich
AUGUST 26, 2013

17. Dinner at the home of Ed and Cathy Rasmuson
AUGUST 26, 2013

18. Dinner at the home of Ed and Cathy Rasmuson
AUGUST 26, 2013

19. Napaskiak
AUGUST 27, 2013

20. Napaskiak
AUGUST 27, 2013

21. Napaskiak
AUGUST 27, 2013

22. Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation
AUGUST 27, 2013

23. STEM students in Bethel
AUGUST 27, 2013

24. AUGUST 27, 2013
An Evening Aboard the Alaska Railroad, Cook Inlet

25. Diane Kaplan, Rasmuson Foundation
at the Alaska Railroad Depot
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Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan
and First Lady of Anchorage Lynnette Sullivan

26. Jim McDonald and Willie Hensley
AUGUST 27, 2013

27. Arliss Sturgulewski
and Claude Gascon, National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation
AUGUST 27, 2013
Ed Henry, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
and Susan Monk

28. AUGUST 27, 2013
Claude Gascon, Former Governor Tony Knowles
and Robert Ruffner, Kenai Watershed Forum

29. An Evening Aboard the Alaska Railroad
AUGUST 27, 2013

30. Prudhoe Bay
AUGUST 28, 2013
Pipeline, Mile 0

31. Iñupiat Heritage Center
AUGUST 28, 2013

32. Ilisagvik College, Barrow
AUGUST 28, 2013

33. Barrow High School Whalers
AUGUST 28, 2013
Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital

34. Breakfast with Governor Sean Parnell
AUGUST 29, 2013

35. Breakfast with Governor Sean Parnell
AUGUST 29, 2013

36. Governor Sean Parnell and Commissioners
AUGUST 29, 2013

37. Anchorage Museum
AUGUST 29, 2013

38. Anchorage Museum
AUGUST 29, 2013

39. On the jet to Sitka
AUGUST 29, 2013

40. Totem Park, Sitka
AUGUST 29, 2013

41. Sitka
AUGUST 29, 2013

42. Alaska Arts Southeast/Former Sheldon Jackson Campus
AUGUST 29, 2013

43. Studio of Tommy Joseph
AUGUST 29, 2013
Lisa Busch, Sitka Science Sound Center

44. Silver Salmon Camp
AUGUST 29, 2013

45. Silver Salmon Camp
AUGUST 29, 2013

46. Silver Salmon Camp
AUGUST 29, 2013

47. Silver Salmon Camp
AUGUST 30, 2013

48. Fishing at Silver Salmon Camp
AUGUST 30, 2013

49. AUGUST 30, 2013
Gloria O’Neill, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, and Dawn Chirwa

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53. Silver Salmon Camp planes
AUGUST 30, 2013

54. Caption
AUGUST 30, 2013

55. AUGUST 30, 2013