Donations, Grants, and Gifts
The RAIVAAJA
2017-2019 Appeals continue.
Here are
Our Generous
Individual Donors who
make up 80% of RAIVAAJA funds received.
In addition:
- We
received grants from the Fitchburg
Cultural Council- https://www.mass-culture.org/Fitchburg
(the local Mass Cultural Council) in 2018
and 2019
- A
Finlandia Foundation (https://finlandiafoundation.org/)
grant in 2017 to supplement the many
donations from our loyal supporters,
kiitos!
- We
will need more to complete the
preservation of the remaining 1905-1936
newspapers.
Please answer our appeal with a donation in
(any amount
that you can).
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from the Kalevala
Program at Saima Park 02/24/2018
Presented by Kirsti Gamage
(Sung) “Olipa impi, ilman
tyttö
Kave, Luonnotar korea....”
“She, the virgin of the air,
Luonnotar, the daughter of nature....”
Growing up I heard those words and that music
countless times. They comprise the opening
phrase of Sibelius’s tone poem for soprano and
orchestra entitled “Luonnotar,” which he wrote
in 1913. The text is from the first part of
the Kalevala; and like
mythological tales from numerous
cultures around the world, it begins with the
creation of the world, invoking Luonnotar, the
Spirit of Nature and Mother of the Seas.
Today I will share with you my family’s
connection to Sibelius’s tone poem
“Luonnotar”, to the Finnish-American
community, and to the spirit of Nature
that we Finns cherish.
I’d like to start with telling you about the
first time my mother met Jean Sibelius. It was
1955 and she was a soloist at the Sibelius
Festival in Helsinki, along with Jussi
Björling and Kirsten Flagstad. more
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"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
has decided to award the Sveriges
Riksbanks Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 to
OLIVER HART
Born 1948 in London, UK.
Ph.D.1974 from Princeton University, NJ,USA.
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics
at
Harvard University,Cambridge, MA, USA.
http://scholar.harvard.edu/hart/home
BENGT HOLMSTRÖM
Born 1949 in Helsinki,
Finland.
Ph.D. 1978 from Stanford University,
CA,USA.
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics and
Professor
of Economics and Management at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/bengt
for their contributions to contract
theory"
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2016/popular-economicsciences2016.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2016/10/12/497637786/nobel-prize-winners-demonstrate-importance-of-contracts
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Follow the following link to browse
through the story by a former editor of
RAIVAAJA:
The
Story
of A Cooperative by Savele Syrjala
Former Cooperative Society Store on
Main Street in Fitchburg at the present
Location of Workers Credit Union
