{"id":1937,"date":"2019-08-08T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2019-08-09T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:25:20","slug":"olseth-family-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/2019\/08\/olseth-family-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Olseth Family Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><figure id=\"attachment_192169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-192169 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/OlsethFamilyFoundation-1.jpg?resize=2138%2C1390&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"2138\" height=\"1390\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Olseth Family<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international\/financing-off-campus-study\/international-and-off-campus-studies-opportunity-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The International and Off-Campus Opportunity Fund<\/a>, established by the Olseth Family Foundation, helps 20 Oles every year study abroad, including several on\u00a0<em>Environmental Science in Australia and New Zealand<\/em>. Uniquely, it awards funds before students select programs to keep costs from restricting opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Professor Emeriti of Music] Charles Forsberg \u201972 encouraged me to go on Global Semester,\u201d shares Jon Olseth \u201990, who directs the foundation\u2019s giving with his sisters Karen \u201987 and Cheryl \u201984. \u201cI was nervous \u2014 there was a risk in going abroad. But that invitation, and that incredible experience, changed my life. I came back to campus a better person.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote pullquote__quote\"><p><q>\u201cGlobal study helps students reshape their worldview and be locally involved citizens,\u201d says Jon. \u201cFor us, the question was how do we help more students participate?\u201d<\/q><cite>Jon Olseth &#8217;90<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jon\u2019s parents, Nancy and Dale Olseth (a former St. Olaf Regent), established the foundation before they died to support causes and organizations important to their family, including St. Olaf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal study helps students reshape their worldview and be locally involved citizens,\u201d says Jon. \u201cFor us, the question was how do we help more students participate?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olseth Family The International and Off-Campus Opportunity Fund, established by the Olseth Family Foundation, helps 20 Oles every year study abroad, including several on\u00a0Environmental Science in Australia and New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donor-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/files\/2019\/08\/OlsethFamilyFoundationweb.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vnBG-vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/campaign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}