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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 Deadline for application is April 1st 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 #1 Grants Local Lodge Partnership Grants • Heimskringla 1-012 Mini Day Camp $250 • Norskfodt 1-590 On the Road to Hostfest $250 • Nortonna 1-638 Norwegian Bunad Class $400 • Vestland 1-601 Bus to Norway Day $375 • Norskfodt 1-590 Author - Eric Dregni $150 • Trollheim 1-511 Language Class PR $ 70 • Vennskap 1-554 Folk Dance Development Class $250 • Vinland 1-193 Portable Screen for Programs $300 • 8 Grants $2,045

  8. 2010-2011 Grants in D #1 Helping Hands to Children Grants • Heimsyn 1-015 “Kids Plus” program, Moose Lake, MN $150 • Heimkringla 1-012 Hostfest in Schools $150 • Leif Erickson Float for parade $250 • Midnatsolen 1-058 Barnelopet for Carey Lake $400 • Norskfodt 1-590 “Troll & Trolldom” program $100 • Snorre 1-070 Hardanger Fiddler for Lincoln High $300 • Stavanger 1-538 “The Last Viking” presentation $500 • 3 lodges Barnelopet in St Cloud, MN $140 • Vonheim 1-108 Norwegian musical performance $150 • Leif Erickson 1-032 Nordic Culture in area schools $150 • Midnatsolen 1-058 Barnelopet in Hibbing,MN $485 • Norskfodt 1-590 Norwegian Books for area schools $ 86 • Solglimt 1-547 Barnelopet Cedar Falls-Waterloo, IA $100 • 3 lodges Barnelopet St Cloud, MN $400 • 14 Grants $3,061

  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 $38,00, 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 Grants awarded in D #1 General Heritage & Culture Grants • Heimskringla 1-012 Skinnefell Class $250 • Steele County History Center, New Building, Owatonna, MN $500 • Norwegian Heritage Committee “Trolls” by David Bradock $400 Hendricks, MN • Haarfager 1-040 Knut Erik Jensen Concert $300 • Ames Children’s Choir Tour to Bergen, Norway $1,000 • Claire Hellweg, Norwegian Classical Music Tour of MN $600 • Giants of the Earth Center, Kjempfest, Spring Grove, MN $400 • Vestland 1-601 25th Lodge Anniversary Celebration $100 • Vennskap 1-554 Crazy Fingers” concert $200 • Leif Erickson 1-032 Nordic Lights Fun Concert $250 • Hjemkomst Center 30th Anniversary of Crew Celebration $750 • Scandia 1-680 Nordic Arts Festival $500 • Commonweal Theatre Speaker for Ibsen Festival $300 • Nortun 1-016 King Harald V & Queen Sonja visit $2,800 • Nor-Win 1-505 Syttende Mai Celebration $150 • Elvidal 1-509 Rosemaling class with Karen Jensen $150 • 16 grants $8,650

  11. Grant & Scholarship 2010 & 2011 Your Sons of Norway Foundation has awarded grant and scholarship opportunities in District # 1 to Celebrate the Culture and Expand the Horizons of our members and their lodges 38 grants worth $13,756 + 9 scholarships worth $30,739 = 47 opportunities worth $44,495

  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 scholarships are 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. 2010-2011 Scholarships awarded in D #1 Astrid Cates Scholarship Johanna Weissing Nor-Win 1-505 $1,000 Blake Halva Oslo 1-002 $1,000 King Olav V Norwegian-American Scholarship Mary Morris Fedraheimen 1-059 $1,160 Danielle Bolme Norsota 1-602 $1,000 Lund Fund Scholarship Rebecca Larson Norsota 1-602 $1,500 Oslo Summer School Pedre Digre Vonheim 1-108 $1,500

  19. 2010-2011 Scholarships in D # 1 Helen Tronvold Folk High School Scholarship Ethan Taylor Heimskringla 1-012 $2,000 Rebecca Shubert Vonheim 1-108 $2,000 Anya Zach Nidaros 1-001 $2,000 Nancy Lorraine Jensen Memorial Scholarship Hannah Stonewall Restauration 1-548 $13,200 Draxten Scholarship Funds for children attending heritage camp 2010 funds $2,299 2011 funds $2,080 10 Scholarships awarded plus Draxten Funds total $30,739

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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

  23. 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.

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

  25. 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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