The American Scandinavian Foundation of Santa Barbara (ASFSB) is a non-profit organization which was incorporated March 31, 1983. For 36 years prior to that date, the organization was a chapter of the national American Scandinavian Foundation with headquarters in New York, which was established in 1910 by Niels Poulsen, a Danish immigrant/ industrialist, to conduct educational exchange between United States and the Scandinavian countries.