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A Good Foundation. Our founder, Curtis L. Carlson, attended the University of Minnesota from 1933 to 1937 during the depths of the Depression. His tuition was USD 15 per academic quarter for the first two years, then increased to USD 16.50. When he made his first gifts to the University of Minnesota, his alma mater and first love, it gave him a great deal of satisfaction:
I gave this money to pay back the state of Minnesota for giving me an almost-free education, so I had the necessary tools to go into business…There is no better way to express my deep appreciation to all Minnesotans than to make available a University that helps our graduates and future executives of our industries be competitive with the rest of the world…
He fostered a deep commitment to humanitarian and community affairs by offering charitable contributions and public service to non-profit organizations. To accomplish this end, the Curtis L. Carlson Foundation was formed in 1950, and later changed its name to the Carlson Family Foundation.
Today, the Carlson Family Foundation serves the philanthropic interests of the Carlson family and Carlson. The funding priorities of the foundation support successful, proven programs and models of excellence in education and children-at-risk/youth-mentoring programs that exhibit characteristics of high quality and excellence, foster innovation
and creativity in the field of mentoring, and support efforts to increase the number of adults mentoring youth in our community.
World Childhood Foundation. Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden observed during her travels the extreme economic, social and emotional poverty of many of the world’s children. She saw children and their young mothers who had suffered abandonment and neglect, and often were pressed into the sex trade to survive. Seeing these conditions too often and in too many parts of the world, the Queen became personally involved, and, in 1999, established World Childhood Foundation (Childhood).
Quoting the words of the great psychiatrist Karl Menninger, “What is done to children they will do to society,” then Carlson Companies CEO, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, and Carlson Family Foundation President, Barbara Carlson Gage, chose to put the resources of their family’s enterprise squarely behind the cause of protecting the world’s at-risk children. With a gift of USD 1 million, Carlson became a Childhood cofounder.
Childhood’s work is aimed at the most marginalized children, the ones most often ignored and forgotten. Childhood focuses especially on girls, and the main target groups are street children, children living in institutions, young mothers and sexually abused children.
In 2010, Carlson employees, guests, suppliers and the Carlson Family Foundation have continued a tradition of raising awareness and funds in support of Childhood and its mission.
www.childhood.org
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