About | StreetReach907, All-volunteer street outreach in Anchorage

Who We Are

StreetReach907 started in 2021 as street ministry. A group of us going out together with whatever we could carry, week after week. We became a 501(c)(3) public charity in December 2025 because the work outgrew what we could do informally, not because we wanted to become an agency.

We serve all of Anchorage. Not one neighborhood, not one camp. We go where people are.

We are all volunteer. Nobody at StreetReach907 draws a salary. That is a deliberate choice and it means nearly every dollar donated turns into food, gear, fuel, and hygiene supplies that reach a person outside.

We are not a shelter, a clinic, or a case management agency. We are the people who show up first, stay in relationship, and walk alongside someone until they are ready to take a next step.

We serve about 600 people a year, with 600+ encounters, across all of Anchorage, and more than half of the people we serve are Alaska Native.

Our Board

Jason Reed

Founder and President

Pastor Brent Dunlap

Vice President

Jennifer Reed

Treasurer

Pastor Matthew Oberlander

Secretary

All board members serve as unpaid volunteers.

What We Believe

These principles came out of years on the street. They shape how we show up.

Zero Barrier

No identification. No sobriety requirement. No intake form. No conditions to meet before we help. If a person is in front of us, that is the only qualification. Barriers are the reason people stop asking for help, and we refuse to add another one.

Homelessness Is a Belonging Crisis

People do not end up outside only because they lost housing. They end up outside because they lost their people. Housing without belonging does not hold. We treat relationship as the intervention, not the nice extra on top of it.

Prevention Through Presence

The most useful thing we do is keep showing up. Being known, being expected, and being trusted prevents more harm than any single service delivery. Presence is what lets someone tell us they are in trouble before it becomes an emergency.

Calricaraq

Calricaraq is a Yup'ik way of understanding wellness as balance between a person, their family, their community, and the land. It belongs to the Yup'ik people. We work in the spirit of Calricaraq, with credit to the Yup'ik people. We did not create it, we do not own it, and we do not claim it as ours.

Planned program

Native Foods on the Street

Salmon, seal oil, berries, and dried fish are not novelty items. For an Alaska Native person living outside, food from home is a piece of identity returned. We treat Native foods as cultural restoration, not as a menu upgrade.

Chronic Alcohol Use and Slow Suicide

Long term drinking on the street is often not an appetite. It is grief that has nowhere to go, and it kills slowly on purpose. We treat chronic alcohol use as a signal of despair rather than a moral failure, and we stay with people the system has written off as noncompliant.