Sons of Norway Foundation

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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

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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

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Local Lodge Partnership Grants

• Specifically designed to help lodges connect with
  their members to
• Offer quality programming
• Provide materials for independent study
• Celebrate successes

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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

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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.

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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

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2010-2011 District 6 Grants

• Local Lodge Partnership Grants
• Fram 6-013 100th Lodge Anniversary 500
• Vesterheim 6-118 Estes Park Midsummer
  Festival 750
• Snowshoe Thompson 6-078 Squaw Valley Statue
  Plaque 400
• Vesterheim 6-118 Estes Park Festival 200
• General Heritage Culture Grants
• Sola 6-168 9th Annual Scandinavian Festival 400
• Fjelldalen 6-162 Heritage Festival, Limon,
  CO 200
• Fjelldalen 6-162 Heritage Festival, Limon,
  CO 200
• D 6, Zone 3 Knut Erik Jensen Concert 300
• Leif Erikson 6-083 Folk Dance Workshop, Salt
  Lake City 300
• Solheim 6-069 Vestafor Norwegian
  Musicians 250
• 10 grants 3,500

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2010-2011 Grants in D 6

• Helping Hands to Children Grants
• Freya 6-062 Enrichment for Dunbar School 250
• Roald Amundsen 6-048 Books for Mather Youth
  Academy 250
• Solbakken 6-064 World Books for Trinity
  Lutheran 300
• Vikings of Lake 6-166 Healthy Start Program
  Book Bags 250
• Bjornson 6-014 Science Camp for 5th
  Graders 300
• Gulldalen 6-128 Ready Springs School
  Assembly 250
• Roald Amundsen 6-048 Books for Mather Youth
  Academy 250
• Solbakken 6-064 Rescue Physical Ed Program 400
• Vikings of Lake 6-166 Book Bag Supplies 300
• 9 grants 2,550
• 19 grants in 2010 2011 totaling
  6,050

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Helping Hands to Member Grants

• The Sons of Norway Foundation awards 1,000,
  Helping Hands to Member Grants to 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.

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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_at_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

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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 isnt 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Norways seventy
  specialty Folk High Schools.

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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.

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2010-2011 Scholarships awarded in D 6

• Astrid Cates Scholarship
• Melissa Plakke Trollheim 6-110 1,000
• Bjorn Hansen Ulabrand 6-024 1,000
• King Olav V Norwegian-American Scholarship
• Rachel Strickland Henrik Ibsen 1,160
• Keith Peyton Norrona 6-050 1,000
• Oslo Summer School
• Rachel Nesseth Norge 6-060 1,500
• Danielle Taylor Trollheim 6-110 1,500

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2010-2011 Scholarships awarded in D 6

• Tronvold Folk High School
• Cheyanne Mosness Henrik Ibsen 6-007 2,000
• Erika Espy-Sundt 6-000 2,000
• Nancy Lorraine Jensen Memorial Scholarships
• Amanda Slama Sorensen Nordal Grieg 6-052 6,837
• Amanda Slama Sorensen Nordal Grieg 6-052
  14,040
• Draxten Camp Scholarship monies
• D 6 allotment for 2010 1,402
• D 6 allotment for 2011 1,267

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2010-2011 gant scholarship totals in D 6

• 10 Scholarships plus Draxten Funds 34,706
• 19 Grants 6,050
• 29 opportunities awarded 40,756

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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.

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You can help us grow

• Your Sons of Norway Foundation has grown from
  its 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.

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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

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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_at_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.

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Making the connection

• Connecting you to your Norwegian heritage
• Connecting your lodge to programming
• Connecting your lodge to your community

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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