The GRHS Endowment Fund

THE GRHS ENDOWMENT FUND was created to help maintain and ensure the financial stability of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society.

MEMBERSHIP DUES to GRHS keep our Society operating from day to day including the Heritage Review and newsletter, our quarterly publications to keep GRHS information flowing to its membership. The GRHS Board of Directors serves at your pleasure, without remuneration. Our membership of GRHS enjoys a very faithful staff, and a board of men and women who are very stable and credible.

THE ENDOWMENT FUND was established at the 1987 GRHS Convention as an amendment to our Bylaws. A committee appointed by the GRHS President, approved by the Board of Directors, shall be responsible for soliciting and collecting donations to the fund. According to the amendment, only earned income from investments is remitted to the Society.

It is the intention of this amendment to establish a permanent fund and not allow any expenditure of the principal. However, the principal may be used if a majority of members at an annual meeting or any special membership meeting called for that purpose vote to do so.

THE PURPOSE OF THE ENDOWMENT FUND is to raise money. There is a continuing need for funding various projects that are an important part of preserving the German Russian ethnic heritage. Your gift can provide needed funds ...

  • For research
  • For publications
  • For expanding library resources
CAN THE ENDOWMENT FUND DO THIS?
  • Yes - if we all work together.
  • Yes - if we remember the Endowment Fund with our gifts.
  • Yes - if we want to thank our ancestors for the freedom we enjoy.
GIFTS of any amount are appreciated. Donations possible include:

  • Cash Gifts
  • Memorials in memory of a loved one
  • Contributions in honor of someone's birthday, or anniversary, etc.
  • Beneficiary of a portion or all of a life insurance policy
  • Bequests in your will
Please send your contribution to:

GRHS Endowment Fund
1125 West Turnpike Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58501-8115

Note: GRHS (Endowment Fund) is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as an organization, which is exempt from federal income tax under 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please contact your tax advisor.

GRHS, an international organization, was founded in 1971 by a small group of Germanic men and women whose ancestors courageously set out to establish a new life of freedom in America for all of us.

For more information contact:

Marvin Eckman
4800 Grassy Lane
Bismarck, ND 58503-8032
(701) 222-8618
 Curtis Schulz
2900 Bay Shore Bend SE #4
Mandan, ND 58554-6200
(701) 250-8176
 Rachel Schmidt
1125 West Turnpike Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58501-8115
(701) 223-6167

Heritage Foundation for Germans from Russia

The mission of the Heritage Foundation of Germans from Russia is to encourage current and/or sustaining and deferred gifts to the Foundation that benefit and support the goals, objectives and purposes of the GRHS, to provide and preserve the heritage of the emigrants of the ethnic Germans from Russia to the United States, Canada and other countries of the world for past, present and future generations; to provide GRHS members and others with the resources regarding estate planning and charitable gift arrangements and to serve as a channel for GRHS members and others to further the aims, objectives and work of the GERMANS FROM RUSSIA HERITAGE SOCIETY. For more information view the HFGR website at Heritage Foundation for Germans from Russia.

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