Svenska Kulturfonden

Svenska kulturfonden, or officially Stiftelsen för utbildning och kultur på svenska i Finland sr., is a Finnish foundation founded to promote Swedish language, Swedish-speaking culture in Finland and education.

The core mission of the foundation is to promote Finland as a bilingual country by contributing financial aid to things such as arts and non-profit organisations that in turn promote the Swedish-speaking culture and Swedish language in Finland.

[2] Svenska Kulturfonden was founded in 1908 (117 years ago) (1908) and as of today functions as an umbrella organization for around 490 individual foundations.

[3] The party is the founder of Svenska Kulturfonden and nominates the board of the foundation.

[1] In March 2020 the foundation launched a new type of grant for artists hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.