Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation

Thank your for your support on Giving Hearts Day 2019!

With help from donors, Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation wants students in Moorhead Area Public Schools to receive milk and snack break, even if their families are struggling to make ends meet. Your Giving Hearts Day donations helps fund this effort.

Thanks to donors like you, Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation saw an increase of 37% over last year’s donations!

Donations made on Giving Hearts Day, which is co-hosted by Dakota Medical Foundation, Impact Foundation and Alex Stern Family Foundation, are matched, furthering the impact. Learn more at www.givingheartsday.org.

Currently more than 900 of the 2,600 K-4 elementary students in Moorhead Area Public Schools are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, but this program doesn’t cover the cost for elementary milk and snack break or fill the gaps when families’ financial situations change. For some students daily snack break is one of their meals.

Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation’s Giving Hearts Day 2017 Food for Thought campaign raised funds to support 200 students, providing them with milk and snack so they could learn and focus in the classroom. In 2018, more than 180 donors raised $13,900 for the Legacy Foundation’s Food for Thought campaign to provide students in need in Moorhead Area Public Schools with milk/snack and meals.

This year, the Legacy Foundation wants to continue building that support by providing funds to the schools to support milk and snack break for all K-4 elementary students on free or reduced-price meals.

WHO WE ARE

Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the continued excellence of the educational experience for all students in Moorhead Area Public Schools ISD 152.

Our goal is to support and enhance the ever-changing needs of students, programs and facilities to shape the future of our school district. We plan to secure and share funds needed to make an impact on lifelong learning through services, programs and facilities. Supporters like you will make it happen.

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WHAT WE DO

Currently, programs are in place to assist students with scholarships as they prepare to leave the district. Though the need for this assistance is great, as our student population grows, programming and assistance is needed for current and future students in the district. We aim to fill that gap by addressing the needs of students currently in the system and creating an endowment to support the schools in the future. Read our 2017-18 annual report.

SpudTacular Gala
Thank you to everyone who made our second annual SpudTacular Gala on Saturday, September 29 a success! The evening included a cocktail hour, raffle, dinner, entertainment, and dancing, with music by Post Traumatic Funk Syndrome. Photos to come.

Spud Student Impact Grants
Each year, the Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation awards grants to Moorhead Area Public Schools educators, with special consideration for the main areas of Academics, Activities, Arts and Athletics. Second round applications closed September 12, 2018, and grants have been awarded. If you're an educator interested in applying, watch for the next round of applications to open in Spring 2019.

In 2017, we awarded eight $500 grants to Moorhead Area Public Schools educators, and in October 2018 we awarded $5,000 in Spud Student Impact Grants. Read more about these grant awards.

OUR IMPACT