Enrich lives and build community with your gift today!
Your support of North House helps craft to come alive every day, both here on campus and to a growing online audience.
Your gift today is needed to:
- Host programs with craftspeople from across the country and around the world that gather the North House community to celebrate and share in the joys of the boreal landscapes and handwork traditions.
- Advance youth and family programming efforts, strengthening our work with Cook County schools and families and expanding opportunities for young makers near and far.
- Provide scholarships that underscore our belief that craft education should be accessible to anyone with an interest in learning, and that the mission of our school is made richer by welcoming a diverse range of students to our campus
- Pursue low cost, high impact campus improvements that will enable the steady evolution of our classrooms and facilities.
- Celebrate the stories of craft at events like Wooden Boat Show, Unplugged, and Winterers' Gathering - as well as through thematic weekends like Fiber Week, Wood Week, Northern Landscapes Festival, and Basket Week.
Benefits
Donors of any amount receive these great member benefits:
- Early Members’ Registration Day (*usually* February 28 & August 31)
- Our printed course catalogs
- Our members newsletter, Shavings (check out the most recent issue here )
- Our Annual Report
- Event passes during special events weekends (donors at or above $50 level qualify for passes for all family members)
- Special announcements, invitations, and more
There are additional benefits for donors of $250 and above — learn more.
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit — your contribution is tax deductible!
Otherways of Giving
Donor Advised Funds
A Donor Advised Fund can be a great tool for supporting your charitable giving. It gives you control as the donor of making donations when the timing is right, and then the flexibility of making gifts later to your favorite charities.
Donor Advised Funds can help to simplify your giving as well as being a tax-wise option. You receive an immediate tax deduction when you contribute to your DAF, and this can be especially helpful when making contributions of appreciated stock, or as you approach retirement (which is often when people have the highest income taxes).
North House regularly receives Donor Advised Fund Gifts. If you already have a DAF we hope you’ll consider recommending a grant today.
If you’re recommending a grant, this might be information your DAF provider needs to complete the gift.
North House Folk School
PO Box 759
Grand Marais, MN 55604
218-387-9762
Tax ID: 41-1878887
Org Exempt Status: 501(c)(3)
Have questions about Donor Advised Funds, or how to learn more about tax-wise giving strategies, contact our Development Director, Tom Morse TMorse@northhouse.org
Gifts of Stock
A gift of appreciated stock from a brokerage account can be a great option for growing your charitable giving. By donating shares directly to North House, you get the full value of the stock as a charitable deducation, while not having to pay capital gains tax. This can be especially useful with highly appreciated stocks.
To make a gift of stock you'll need North House's brokerage account information, which can be reuqested from our development director, Tom Morse - TMorse@northhouse.org
Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs)
A third popular option for supporting North House is using your IRA's Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) as a Qualified Charitable Distribution. By sending your IRA funds directly to North House, you avoid a portion of income that would otherwise be taxed. Your IRA provider will be happy to assist you with this.
You made need the following information for recommending a Qualified Distibution to North House:
North House Folk School
PO Box 759
Grand Marais, MN 55604
218-387-9762
Tax ID: 41-1878887
Org Exempt Status: 501(c)(3)
North House regularly receives QCD's and our gift acknowledgement letters contain all of the needed language to make sure that your gift documentation matches what the IRS needs for verifying these gifts.
If you have questions about QCD's contact our Development Director, Tom Morse - TMorse@northhouse.org
Privacy Policy
North House Folk School will not share your personal information with other organization or companies. Our complete privacy policy can be read here.