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Sons of Norway Foundation

Sons of Norway Foundation. “The Sons of Norway Foundation awards scholarships and grants to promote the heritage and culture of Norway, and provides assistance to our members, lodges and their communities.” Mission Statement. “Making the Connection”. Connecting lodges to culture.

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Sons of Norway Foundation

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  1. Sons of Norway Foundation “The Sons of Norway Foundation awards scholarships and grants to promote the heritage and culture of Norway, and provides assistance to our members, lodges and their communities.” Mission Statement “Making the Connection”

  2. Connecting lodges to culture Sons of Norway Foundation offerings include: • Local Lodge Partnership Grants • General Heritage & Culture Grants • Helping Hands to Children Grants • Helping Hands to Member Grants

  3. Local Lodge Partnership Grants Specifically designed to help lodges connect with their members to • Offer quality programming • Provide materials for independent study • Celebrate successes

  4. Helping Hands to Children Grants These are designed to help lodges provide services to children in their communities. • Help schools with Norwegian programming • Purchase much needed school supplies • Start a youth group within your lodge

  5. General Heritage & Culture Grants These grants are designed to encourage quality Norwegian themed programming to wider audiences throughout the country and to provide a venue for group cross-cultural experiences.

  6. General Heritage & Culture Grants Examples may include: • Theatre productions - Ibsen • Musical performances- Grieg • Sponsor art exhibits in museums • Cross-cultural exchange of musicians, bands, orchestras • Folk dance tours • Community fair participations by lodges • Beyond the scope of lodge only events

  7. 2010-2011 District # 3 Grants & Scholarships Local Lodge Partnership Grant Hudson Valley 3-432 Parade Float $500 Helping Hands to Children Grants Hampton Roads 3-522 Cameras for school literacy $300 Bondelandet 3-612 Books for Highland Elem $100 Draxten Camp Scholarships 2010 scholarship monies to D # 3 $1,381 2011 scholarship monies to D # 3 $1,279 5 opportunities $3,560

  8. 2010-2011 Grants to D # 3 Heritage & Culture Grants Norumbega 3-506Knut Erik Jensen Concert $300 Norsk Carolina Vikings 3-675 Genealogy Workshop $250 Concert in the Heights Norwegian Concert in NYC $500 Working Waterfront Festival Norwegian musicians $500 Hudson Valley 3-432 Float update $200 District # 3 Centennial Celebration $750 Working Waterfront Festival Musical Performers $400 Longfellow Chorus, Scenes from Ole Bull, Portland, ME $600 D # 3 Land of the Vikings Genealogy Workshop $500 9 Grants $4,000

  9. Helping Hands to Member Grants • The Sons of Norway Foundation awards $1,000, Helping Hands to Member Grantsto current Sons of Norway members who lose their home to natural disasters including floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and wild fires. • 38 Helping Hands to Member Grants, worth $38,000, were given to Sons of Norway members following the severe June flooding of the Souris River in Minot, ND in 2011. • Your donations to the Humanitarian Fund will keep this fund ready to assist with future disasters. We have awarded grants almost every year since the establishment of this grant in 2004.

  10. 2010-2011 Scholarships awarded to D # 3 Astrid Cates Scholarships Kai Simonson Washington 3-428 $1,000 Molly Parent Maine Nordmenn 3-664 $1,000 Myrtle Beinhauer Kirsten Olson Bondelandet 3-612 $3,000 Nancy Lorraine Jensen Memorial Scholarship Kirsten Ward Faerder 3-109 $9,837 King Olav V Norwegian-American Scholarship Sallie Steiner Oslo 3-438 $1,000 5 Scholarships $15,837

  11. 2010-2011 Grants and Scholarships in D # 3 Scholarships $18,497 Grants $ 4,900 Total for 2010 & 2011 $23,397

  12. How do you apply? • Go to the Foundation section of the Sons of Norway website at www.sonsofnorway.com, click on Foundation, then, click on grants and scroll to the grant of your choice. All the qualifying information and applications are accessible on-line. • Beginning in 2012, applications may be done on-line. • Contact foundation@sofn.com with any questions you have while filling out the application. Please make sure contact information is reachable during business hours, 8 AM – 5 PM. • Mail signed application at least one week prior to deadline to: Sons of Norway Foundation 1455 West Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 55408-2666

  13. How many requests are funded? • Our Foundation is currently at $4,300,000. We award between $25,000 - $30,000 in 70+ grants each year. • Unfortunately, not all requests receive funding. This does not mean the event isn’t worthy of funding. It means we have a limited amount of funds available each year. We try to give enough to be meaningful to as many requests as possible. • Go the Foundation section of the Sons of Norway website to view the grants awarded in 2011. This may give you ideas on how a grant may help your lodge.

  14. How many scholarships are awarded? • We receive approximately 125 scholarship applications each year. • We award between 23 and 27. • One in five qualified applicants receive funding, or 20%.

  15. Scholarships available Our Foundation offers six distinct categories of scholarships: • Astrid Cates/MyrtleBeinhauer scholarships, offered in tandem. Six $1,000 Cates scholarships and two $3,000 Beinhauer scholarships are awarded each year for current Sons of Norway children or grandchildren to attend post high school studies at accredited schools of higher learning. • King Olav V Norwegian-American scholarships,HRM King Olav V allowed the Sons of Norway Foundation to use his name in establishing a fund to promote cultural exchange between Norway and the United States. The fund welcomes applications from American students 18 and older wishing to pursue the study of Norwegian topics or Norwegian students wishing to study American topics. Typically 7-8 students receive scholarships from $1,000-$2,000 annually.

  16. Scholarships available • Nancy Lorraine Jensen Memorial scholarshipsare offered to current Sons of Norway members, children or grandchildren of current Sons of Norway members, between 17-35 years of age, majoring in chemistry or physics, or in chemical, electrical or mechanical engineering. This scholarship honors the remarkable daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur S Jensen, Nancy, who was a celebrated NASA aerospace engineer/chemist. • Oslo Summer School scholarships, two $1,500 scholarships, one from the Sons of Norway Foundation and one from the International Board of Directors of Sons of Norway, are offered each year to current Sons of Norway members, children or grandchildren of current members, to attend Oslo Summer School at the University of Oslo for a six week summer course. • Helen Tronvold Norwegian Folk High School scholarships,up to three, $2,000 scholarships are awarded each year to current Sons of Norway members or to a child or grandchild of current member, for American students to study, from August to May, at one of Norway’s seventy specialty Folk High Schools.

  17. Lund Fund Scholarships • The Lund Fund Scholarship was established in 2010 to honor former CEO, John Lund and Allan Lund, former Legal Counsel. • The purpose of the scholarship is to offer a current Sons of Norway member, or child or grandchild of a current member, the opportunity to participate in an accredited study-abroad program in the country of their choice. • One $1,500 scholarship will be awarded annually. Please encourage your college-aged members to check out our scholarships on-line at www.sonsofnorway.com/foundation.

  18. Creating opportunities • Has your lodge received a grant? If so, why not do a fundraiser for the Foundation so that another lodge may have the same opportunity? • Has your lodge had a scholarship recipient? Help the next student with a lodge donation to one of our scholarship funds.

  19. You can help us grow • Your Sons of Norway Foundation has grown from it’s humble roots in 1966, to offering four grant opportunities and six scholarship categories in 2011. • We receive over 100 requests for our grants each year. We are able to fund approximately 70-75 of these requests with partial funding.

  20. Lodges may help • Support October as “Foundation Month” with a fundraiser in your lodge • Designate memorial donations to the Heritage & Culture Fund of the Foundation Memorial donor envelopes are available for no cost to lodges. • Pass the Piggy at each lodge meeting

  21. Members may help • Consider adding a “Gift by Will” to your estate plans. This only takes a few paragraphs added to your current will. Contact foundation@sofn.com to learn more about this. • Give annually when you renew your Sons of Norway dues. • Give on-line on our secure site. Your donations are eligible for tax deduction.

  22. “Making the connection” • Connecting you to your Norwegian heritage • Connecting your lodge to programming • Connecting your lodge to your community

  23. Sons of Norway Financial Fraternal & Foundation are working in concert to make your Sons of Norway experience the best it can be. www.sonsofnorway.com/foundation

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