The John Durand Scholarship Program was established by members of the Durand Heritage Foundation to help further that organization's educational mission.
The Durand Heritage Foundation is a public, not-for-profit, educational and research corporation established in 1998 and chartered in the state of Minnesota. It operates under ยง501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowable. The Foundation affords no pecuniary benefit to its officers and members.
The Foundation carries out its educational mission by publishing newsletters concerning family history, maintaining a Durand genealogy (over 16,000 entries) and by re-publishing books and other materials of family interest. The scholarship program supports academic scholarship beyond high school and projects to research family history.
The goal of JohnnyRide was to build a fund of $50,000 to enable the annual distribution of cash awards to young scholars, in perpetuity. This goal was achieved in 2017.
As of 2020, the John Durand Scholarship Program has awarded more than $43,000 to students from a dozen states.
