Current Grant Holders
Kevin Borek ’10
The Lorax Nursery
The Lorax Nursery is an organic plant and tree nursery that sells chemical-free products at wholesale and retail businesses. The organic tree and plant nursery will provide the community with an all-natural, health, and environmentally friendly alternative to ordinary nurseries that use chemicals.
Joseph Erickson & Kai Hansen ’11
Checkdown Records, LLC
Checkdown Records is not only a working record label, but a multi-faceted media company, with services ranging from marketing, distrubution and promotion to recording and production.
Katherine Huber ’09
Flower Girl
Flower Girl is a grower and supplier of cut flower bouquets, determined to provide fresh, beautiful flowers that are sold locally and grown using organic methods.
Nicholas Kang ’12
Merritt Hockey School
Merritt Hockey School is a hockey camp located in Merritt, British Columbia, Canada. The hockey school will teach young hockey players from the age of 5 to 15 the skills of skating, shooting, stickhandling, and passing in a fun and comfortable learning environment.
Joseph Mitchell ’10
Nota Alta Musik, LLC
Nota Alta Musik is a music production studio located in Minneapolis that caters to vocal artists in the Latin subgenres of reggaeton, bachata, and merengue/mambo.
Elliot Robia ’10
Dream Box
Dream Box is an organization which offers one-on-one lessons and group instruction in a variety of activities and art forms. They also assist St. Olaf students by providing financial support for the creative projects they want to do.
Evan Uribe ’11
Lumen Photography (site will be up soon)
Lumen Photography is a fully functional studio that provides on location & studio portraits, senior, child, wedding, event & sports photography. Lumen photography brings to every photo shoot an approach and attitude that puts even the most reserved photo subjects at ease.
Justin Volling ’12
Southern Minnesota Golf Academy
The Southern Minnesota Golf Academy is a golf camp for youth ages 10 to 17 that will allow participants to grow in their faith using golf as a vehicle to reach them.
Past Grant Recipients
Saman Bemel-Benrud ’09 & Alex Mitchell ’09
MFM Apparel
Mintee Fresh Monster is an apparel company providing tee shirts to the young, hip, and college student demographic. MFM Apparel is a line of fashion tee shirts conceived and executed by a passionate and inspired designer and driven by innovative grass roots marketing.
Wade Hauser & Jenna Wagner ’09
A Tree Free Lunch
This is a non-profit business that will sell reusable lunch bags to St. Olaf students to promote sustainability. The goal is to eliminate the unhealthy dependence on environmentally detrimental paper bags.
Jay Jovick ’09
Acropolis, LLC
Acropolis, LLC offers a content management service to higher education institutions throughout the U.S. Specifically, the business offers a content management service that promotes a dialogue between students and the administration via an online website. Students have a strong desire to voice their opinions, but as of right now, there is no credible or convenient online system that fully satisfies their desire to express themselves.
Lyndel Owens ’10
Cookies 'n Cream
This is a vending cookie and ice cream sandwich business which will sell at fairs and large events throughout central Ohio during the summer of 2008.
Mikael Pensec ’09
A Vibrational Statement Newsletter
The Vibrational newsletter will be an an independent media newsprint & online web resource, distributed and available free
of charge to students to guarantee that people get the information they need and especially that they become more aware of the need to diversify one’s media sources.
Former Year Grant Holders
Aidan Currie ’08
Happy Roots Root Beer
Organic Root Beer - Produce and sell root beer that is truly organic and tastes good, offering a healthier more sustainable alternative to current soft drinks.
Max Davenport ’08
Deep Green Lotus
A clothing and furnishings company offering fashionable solutions to everyday living with 5% of the profits donated to charity. Visit www.DeepGreenLotus.com for more!
Andrew Foxwel ’08
Modica Marketing
Modica Marketing is a marketing, advertising and public relations firm especially designed for the St. Olaf Community. Our goal is to spark new interest in events, organizations and businesses on campus through diverse, energized and first-person perspective marketing techniques. More about Modica
Danielle Stoermer ’08 & Katie Godfrey ’08
Sustainable Cookbook
A cookbook containing recipes from St. Olaf faculty, staff, and students, which includes information on local and organic food and a sustainable lifestyle in general.
Eric Tvedt ’08
Masses with Masses
Masses with Masses are an alternative rock group composed of four St. Olaf College seniors based in Northfield, MN. Masses with Masses have been writing and performing original musical compositions since January of 2006 with members including Matt Germscheid, Eric Graalum, Ben Manning and Eric Tvedt.
Will Voorhees ’08
DormDVDs.com
DormDVDs.com is an Internet based, inventory-less, low overhead movie rental service. It serves as an intermediary for students to borrow each other's movies.
Jenna Wagner '09
Urbane
Urbane sells unique and practical hand knit items for men, women, and children, such as scarves, hats, mittens, purses, bags, booties, and an assortment of accessories
Mikael Witte & Eric Wilson ’08
Plagiarists Company
The Plagiarists Company is an organization dedicated to the success of the art the members create. For the past three years Eric Wilson, Davis Wille, Mikael Witte, Brendan Golle and Blake Wergeland have performed together in this band. During Spring '06 the band released their first record, Veto. Their band is currently working toward the production of their second record.
