It is with great thanks that we acknowledge 70 years of partnership with The Nord Family Foundation. The foundation has graciously supported numerous OFIC member campus students through scholarships over the past seven decades. Their recent gift increase and agreement to hire Lorain County students as interns for a local non-profit aligns with OFIC’s Campus to Career initiatives aimed at driving talent for Ohio and the Nord Family Foundation’s commitment to student success. The new program highlights the importance of partnerships and collaboration in driving talent development and creating opportunities for students to succeed in their chosen career paths. It also showcases the positive impact that foundations like The Nord Family Foundation can have on the community by investing in education and supporting non-profit organizations.
About the Nord Family Foundation
Since 1988, The Nord Family Foundation has contributed more than $145 million to philanthropic and charitable endeavors, throughout Lorain County and beyond. The Nord Family Foundation is a successor to a charitable trust established in 1952 by the entrepreneur and industrialist W.G. Nord.
Mr. Nord and his family believed that it was both responsible and prudent for a business to invest in the community it served, and formed a private foundation to be consistent in that investment even as the business reflected the cyclical nature of its earnings.
The U.S. Automatic (and later Nordson) Foundation contributed more than $101 million to a wide variety of charitable causes between 1953 and 1988, primarily in Lorain County, Ohio. Walter Nord’s widow left the bulk of her estate to the Foundation, which consisted largely of stock in Nordson Corporation. In 1988, Nordson Foundation was dissolved, and The Nord Family Foundation was one of two entities created to follow it.