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Legacy Foundation’s Giving Hearts Day campaign to fund milk/snack and meals for students

February 2, 2017

With help from donors, Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation wants students in Moorhead Area Public Schools to receive milk/snack break and meals, even if their families are struggling to make ends meet. On Feb. 9, the Legacy Foundation will be part of Giving Hearts Day 2017, and contributions to the foundation’s Food for Thought campaign will fund this effort.

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

More than one-third of 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. Sometimes families are unable to pay for meals — and even if they eventually qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, they need help covering negative meal account balances created during that gap.

The Legacy Foundation wants students to be able to focus and learn better in the classroom by providing funds to the schools to support milk and snack break for all K-5 elementary students on free or reduced-price meals and to cover negative meal account balances for families who need assistance.

Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization focused on funding the needs of current and future students in Moorhead Area Public Schools and creating an endowment to support the schools in the future. Learn more at http://www.moorheadlegacy.org.

Photo caption: Spuddy and central office administrators sport milk mustaches to support Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation’s Food for Thought campaign for Giving Hearts Day.
 
 

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