The Lois Roth Foundation has several exciting plans for celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2022. In addition to increasing our Project Support stipends, we are establishing new collaborations with three more Fulbright Commissions in Morocco, Ecuador, and Uruguay! In early 2022, we will also be changing our name to the Lois Roth Foundation, unveiling a […]
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We’re sure you know… today is Giving Tuesday. What you may not know is… the Roth Foundation is running a matching challenge. Thanks to funds contributed by Endowment founder Richard (Dick) Arndt, the first $5,000 in donations received will be matched 2-to-1!And did you know? … Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 by the United
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The Lois Roth Foundation is approaching another milestone: our 35th anniversary! The organization was founded in 1987, soon after Lois’s untimely death, by her widower Dick Arndt. Check out the painting we use as the masthead of our FaceBook page, which commemorates their partnership! Since its founding, the Endowment has grown step by step, thanks
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost five years since we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Lois Roth Foundation with a series of twelve monthly Alumni Portraits. They have lost none of their relevance and impact. Despite the challenges we’ve all been facing, we’re happy to have been able to continue supporting the
Lois Roth Foundation board member Anne Barbaro recently wrote an article titled, “Lois Roth Foundation: Honoring a Great Cultural Diplomat” for the prestigious Public Diplomacy Association of America (PDAA) about the Lois Roth’s vision. Lois Roth was a groundbreaking cultural diplomat, and the LRE are proud to help further her vision with our programs fostering
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On this Indigenous People’s Day, the Roth Foundation salutes its many former grantees working on Indigenous cultures and the issues facing Indigenous Peoples around the world. We are proud to help support these important projects. Read more about one of our former grantees, Patricia Tupou from New Zealand, HERE!
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Lois Roth Foundation board member Anne Barbaro recently wrote an article titled, “Locally Employed Staff Are the Lifeblood of Cultural Diplomacy” for the online journal, American Diplomacy about the Lois Roth Foundation’s annual Gill Jacot-Guillarmod Awards. These awards honor the achievements of local staff members working in cultural programs and exchanges at US embassies and
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A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson, whom Lois referred to as her Swedish adoptive mother, provides supplementary project support for American Fulbrighters in Sweden every year. The 2021 Roth-Thomson Awards was presented to Hannah Ritchey. Hannah is conducting research on Muslim immigration and integration in Sweden. She will use the Roth-Thomson Award for translation
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A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson provides supplementary project support for American Fulbrighters in Finland every year, in cooperation with the Fulbright Finland Foundation. For 2021, the award was presented to Lexi Lobdell. Lexi is pursuing a Master’s of Science degree in International Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Lappeenranta. She plans to
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In collaboration with Fulbright Norway, the Roth Foundation grants an award to an American Fulbrighter in Norway every year. This year, the award went to Michelle Chang. Michelle Chang is conducting research on Norwegian mindsets about death in collaboration with the University of Bergen’s Center for Crisis Psychology to support the Center’s work with the
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On February 25th, Dr. Jeffrey C. Stewart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Fulbright Scholar Alumnus to Italy, joined Dr. Joanne Braxton for a virtual discussion of his most recent work, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (2018). Joanne Braxton, PhD is Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of the Humanities Emerita at William &
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On February 19th, a virtual panel discussion explored the life and work of renowned historian, Dr. John Hope Franklin, a Fulbright alumnus to multiple countries and former Fulbright Board Chair. Dr. Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom forever changed the way the American story is told by illuminating the integral role of Black Americans in the United States; a recording
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We are very pleased to present the video of the LRE Awards for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy! The 2020 Award Ceremony of the Bureau for Educational and Cultural Diplomacy (ECA) was presented virtually on December 9, 2020. This 7-minute video is an excerpt that focuses on the Awards sponsored by the Lois Roth Foundation. Kudos
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A virtual panel discussion on “Fulbright Impact in the Field: Strengthening International Engagement on US Campuses” took place on March 8. It was organized as part of events marking the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program, which counts 400,000 alumni from all different backgrounds. The wide-ranging conversation involved US university presidents Ronald Crutcher, Joan Gabel, Willard
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We are excited to announce our new Gill Jacot-Guillarmod Career Achievement Award! Since 2011, the Roth Foundation Awards for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy have been given in partnership with, and at the Annual Awards Ceremony of the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. One such award was established in 2013 to honor
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Congratulations to our 2020 Danish Project Support awardee James Budinich! Under a Fulbright grant with the American Scandinavian Foundation, James will work with the Royal Danish Academy of Music to conduct research on the Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and the Danish New Simplicity movement during the 1960s. He will also develop a composition for vocalist
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Congratulations to the 2021 awardees for our MLA-Roth Translation Award, which were announced in a virtual ceremony held by the Modern Language Association on January 9th, 2021! The 2021 award went to Robert and Elizabeth Chandler for their translation from the Russian of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad. Set in Russia in the midst of WWII, the
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We are excited to announce the recipients of our 2020 Cultural Diplomacy Awards! The Lois Roth Award went to Cultural Affairs Officer Davida MacDonald from the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco. Davida was recognized for the “Moonshot Morocco” campaign she designed that transformed the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing into a year-long celebration
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On January 12th, 2021, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering gave a virtual lecture on the Influence of International Exchange Programs on Diplomacy, introduced by Dr. Richard T. Arndt, retired US diplomat and founding chair of the Lois Roth Foundation. The lecture touched upon Pickering’s own experience studying abroad in Australia, which inspired him to look towards
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