A Founders’ Club Program was instituted in 1992 to
raise funds to purchase property on Oleson Road in Portland for the purpose of building the Scandinavian American
Cultural & Community Center. A Viking ship medallion was
designed and produced by artist Joe Apodaca and a Founders’ Club
Medallion was presented to each Founder.
$250,000 was raised with gifts of land and money and the property was
purchased. There are ninety-seven Founders, both individual and
organizational, who have given a minimum of $1,000. The individual founders
are not listed on this page out of respect for their privacy. The Scandinavian organizations who
contributed to become Founders are:
ASF Foundation of Oregon and SW Washington
Danish American Vintage Society
Danish Brotherhood, Lodge 167
Danish Sisterhood Lodge 81
Daughters of Norway, Frida Hansen Lodge 37
Finnish American Historical Society of the West
Finnish American Literary Heritage Foundation
Harmoni Lodge 472, Vasa Order of America
New Sweden Cultural Heritage Society of Oregon & SW Washington
Nobel Lodge 184, Vasa Order of America
Northwest Danish Foundation
Norske Runddansere
Order of Runeberg Lodge 125
Scandinavian Fall Fair
Scandinavian Chorus and Scandia Ladies Chorus
Swedish Society Linnea
Thor Lodge, Sons of Norway
Tre Kronor Lodge 713, Vasa Order of America
When the Scandinavian
American Cultural & Community Center is built there will be a
"Plaque of Honor" displayed in the lobby with a list of the
Founders, who in the beginning, believed in the project and contributed their
own precious assets to buy the land to build a Cultural Center.
Mission
Statement
Preserve, Communicate and Celebrate Scandinavian
Heritage and Culture
