Park, Kodiak Island, Alaska

Community beach and trail clean up

Caring for Alaska

Caring for Alaska

Yearly since 2021, Kodiak KINDNESS has qualified for a Matson Caring for Alaska grant. KINDNESS and Matson team-up-to-clean-up Kodiak trails and beaches in the spring, celebrating Earth Day. Kodiak KINDNESS helps babies grow into healthy children from the inside-out with good nutrition, and Matson helps ensure that the environment they live in is healthy from the outside-in! It’s a perfect partnership that we hope to keep an annual tradition.  

2023 Caring for Alaska

On Earth Day 2023 (April 22), KINDNESS and Matson took their Kodiak clean-up to the the next level by partnering with Island Trails Network and Credit Union 1.  Once the ball was rolling, Alaska Aerospace, Alaska Airlines, Koniag, Inc., Afognak Native Corporation, Key Bank, and Global Credit Union jumped on board, sending volunteers and corporate donations to support the mission of KINDNESS and sponor our ramped-up event. We collected 3,660 lbs of trash in 3 hours with 65 volunteers and took 12 truckloads to the landfill!!! We gave Kodiak a HUGE head start on looking all spruced up for spring and summer on the Emerald Isle, made an positive impact on the environment, strengthened KINDNESS for the future, brought different community members and businesses together, and had a lot of fun doing it! We are already looking forward to next year!

Previous Caring for Alaska Events

2023

Beautiful weather and many community partners including 8 corporate sponsors brought 66 hard working volunteers out this year! On April 22 (Earth Day 2023) we scoured miles of beaches and road ditches, bringing 3,660 lbs of trash in 12 truckloads to the landfill! This was more than our two previous years combined. Thank you Kodiak!
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2022

The off-and-on Kodiak rain didn’t stop 34 hearty volunteers from showing up on April 23 (Earth Day 2022) to clean up Mill Bay Beach, the bike trail along Rezanof Drive, and the Island Lake hiking path. This year Matson loaned us powerful magnets to “sweep” the beach clean of nails from pallet fires, and we took extra care to separate out all the recyclables we could. We hauled more than 800 pounds of trash to the landfill and 10 extra-large bags of plastic and aluminum to Threshold Recycling.
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2021

On June 5, 2021, more than 50 volunteers showed up on a bright sunny day to don yellow safety vests and spend four hours hauling 2,120 pounds of trash out of the brush along Monashka Bay Road and at Pillar Creek and White Sands Beach in Kodiak. Volunteers disentangled all kinds of items from the brush and thickets along the road, creek beds, and beaches; everything from shotgun shells and broken glass to mattresses, appliances, old tires, and even a bed!
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