Vice President's Letter, February 2009
Grants and Scholarships: Benefits to Our Members.
Many individual lodges and Zones offer Scholarships for their members or family members. FEBRUARY is the month to get all you information together and get the paperwork done and mailed since most deadlines are in March. If you want to know more or which lodges/zones have scholarships, contact your Zone Director for more information.
The International Sons of Norway offers several scholarships for individuals and Foundation Grants for the local lodges. The grant deadlines are January/February. As mentioned in the December TDT, go to the web site www.sofn.org, then click “Scholarship/Grants” to download all the information you need. The International Lodge also uses the Foundation Grants for disaster funding. For example: When Hurricane Charlie hit Florida, the foundation sent money to members in need of help.
And, please note, the Third District has its own Charitable Trust, which helps members in need of financial assistance, whether a one time grant or monthly stipend.
Check out the new Lodge Programming Resource Guide for everything Sons of Norway has to offer its members.
As you can see, members help us grow---but we help our members too!!!!
Update:
Information received on which Lodges have Fair/Bazaars or participate are:
Fram, Garborg, Gulfstream, Hampton Roads, Hartford, Loyal, Nansen, Noreg, Norumbega, Oslo, Sarasota, Scan. Heritage Soc., Suncoast, Tampa Bay, Vennekretsen, Washington, and Norsk Carolina.
Information received on Lodges with Membership Committee:
Blåfjell, Færder, Morgensolen, Norden, Norrøna, Norsemen Harbour, Norumbega,
Port Orange, Southern Star, and Vennekretsen.
If your lodge has both or either of the above information PLEASE send it or email (rege882@catskill.net) it to me. Takk.
Alt for denne gangen,
Gail
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