Internal Youth Cultural Grants The Club offers financial grants to the children and grandchildren of Liederkranz members who wish to further their German cultural interests. Examples such as financial aid for travel expenses to Germany with an accredited program, German cultural learning experiences and furthering higher education, or expenses incurred in purchasing tracht for dancing, etc.
If you are interested in learning more about this type of grant for your member child or grandchild, please contact Grant/Scholarship committee chair,Judy Zodetby email or by phone: 717-392-7166.
Note: Applicants will need to be signed into a Google account.
Lancaster Liederkranz College Scholarships
Available to Club Children and Community Children
- The Liederkranz offers German language college scholarships to all local area high school seniors who may not be affiliated with the Liederkranz. Students should see their high school language department head for information.
- The Liederkranz offers German language college scholarships or German cultural college scholarships to high school seniors who affiliated with the Liederkranz as children or grandchildren of Liederkranz members.
Application and interview are required.
Informational Links:
For any local area high school senior or Liederkranz affiliated high school senior:
2024 Scholarship Awards In 2024, the Lancaster Liederkranz granted a total of $9,000 in German Language and German Cultural Scholarship Awards. Scholarships are made possible each year by Liederkranz Grant Committee fundraisers and donations by the Club's Small Games of Chance proceeds.
Liederkranz Memorial Scholarships
The Scholarship and Grant Committees have named three German Language scholarships in honor of these late Liederkranz member teachers who perpetuated the Club's mission of preserving German culture by offering German language classes to Club members:Helga Barisits, Monica Fasnacht, and Milan Kratzer.
2024 $1,000 German Language and German Cultural Scholarship Recipients:
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Youth Cultural Grant & College Scholarship Donations Any member interested in donating funds to the Cultural Grant or College Scholarship programs, please contact Judy Zodet by email or by phone: 717-392-7166.
Lancaster Liederkranz 722 S. Chiques Rd., Manheim PA 17545 717-898-8451 (after 4pm only) | info@lancasterliederkranz.com Preserving German music, song, dance, language, customs, and culture since 1880.
