Serving Quietly * Supporting Quietly * Helping Quietly
The Critical Needs Program Supports...
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Every student deserves the opportunity to learn without worrying about their basic needs. Your gift to the Critical Needs Program provides immediate support for students facing hardship by helping schools supply food, clothing, hygiene items, school supplies, transportation, and other essentials. Together, we can ensure every student feels supported, valued, and ready to succeed.
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Every student deserves a nutritious meal that helps them learn, grow, and succeed. While Fargo Public Schools works closely with families to address meal account balances with dignity and compassion, some students still face financial challenges.
Gifts to the Emergency Breakfast & Lunch Program ensure that no child goes hungry and that every student has access to the healthy meals they need to thrive in the classroom.
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Every child deserves the opportunity to learn without the distraction of hunger. Your gift helps provide nutritious snacks for elementary classroom snack pantries, ensuring every student has access to a snack whenever they need one.
Because every school is unique, the Fargo Public Schools Foundation provides flexible funding that allows schools to purchase the snacks that best meet the needs of their students. Together, we can help every child stay nourished, focused, and ready to learn.
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The Husky Hutch helps elementary students and families across the District with basic necessities such as hygiene supplies, shoes, clothing and winter weather gear. This program was created to help those families who may just need a helping hand to get through a tough week or month.
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Liz's Closet is a welcoming and confidential resource located in Fargo Public Schools middle schools where students can access nonperishable food, hygiene products, clothing, and other basic necessities. Any student who needs support is welcome to take what they need with dignity and without judgment.
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The Eagle Cupboard provides free and confidential support for Davies High School students and their families during times of need. Stocked with food, clothing, hygiene items, and other essentials, the Cupboard helps ease financial burdens so students can focus on learning and reaching their full potential.
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Fargo North's Open Door is a welcoming resource that provides students with access to food, clothing, shoes, hygiene products, and other everyday essentials. By meeting basic needs with compassion and dignity, Open Door helps remove barriers to learning and reminds students they are supported every step of the way.
Your generosity truly makes a difference in a student's life.
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The Bruin Pantry provides students and their families with free access to food, hygiene products, and other essential items in a welcoming and respectful environment.
By helping meet basic needs, the pantry supports student well being and ensures every learner has the resources they need to thrive both in and out of the classroom.
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The Source is a collaborative program between Dakota High School and Fargo Public Schools' Student Wellness and Family Facilitators that provides free, confidential access to food, clothing, hygiene products, and other basic necessities for students and their families.
Located at the Agassiz building, The Source serves students throughout the district when additional support is needed beyond what their home school can provide.
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The Dakota Way Fund provides resources and opportunities that help Dakota High School students succeed beyond what traditional funding can provide. Your gift supports student needs, strengthens school community, and helps remove barriers to attendance, engagement, and graduation.
Your support helps:
Provide students with essential resources and support.
Foster a strong, connected school community.
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The Homeless Program is an effort to assist students in our public schools who are identified as experiencing homelessness, and to ensure that children and youth who are homeless have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education as provided to all other students. Your generosity is vital to making a difference in every child’s life.
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The Washington Elementary PTA has established the Washington Helping Washington Fund to ensure that children and families have access to the support and resources they need to thrive and find success at school.
Vires acquirit eundo!
“We gather strength as we go.”
Every student deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed. The Critical Needs Program, administered by the Fargo Public Schools Foundation, helps ensure students have access to the basic necessities they need to thrive at school.
When a student is experiencing hardship, school staff can respond quickly and discreetly with support such as school supplies, nutritious food, hygiene products, clothing, shoes, transportation assistance, and other essential items. By removing these barriers, students can focus on what matters most, learning.
Your support makes an immediate difference. Every gift empowers educators, counselors, social workers, and school administrators to meet student needs with compassion, dignity, and respect.
What our educators are saying:
“Being able to buy snacks for students, because without it, some of them just cannot learn. It takes their thoughts away from not having food so they can focus on their learning.”
— Elementary School Principal
“When students are in need of school supplies, hygiene products, clothing, shoes, etc., we are able to almost immediately meet that need. Because of Liz’s Closet and Critical Needs funding, we can discreetly provide these resources and help minimize the embarrassment a student may feel when they do not have what they need to feel successful.”
— Middle School Counselor
“We had a new student join us mid-year. He didn’t have any school supplies, and through the Critical Needs Program we were able to get him a backpack filled with everything he needed. Having these supplies on hand was invaluable, it allowed us to support this student’s education and show him that he is welcomed and cared for.”
— High School Principal
Together, we can ensure every Fargo Public Schools student has the resources they need to feel confident, supported, and ready to succeed. Thank you for investing in the well-being and future of our students.
