Building Community, One Meal at a Time With food uncertaintly being top-of-mind, Heart-n-Soul Community Café provides sack lunches for vulnerable populations. Thanks to the FM Area Foundation, Heart-n-Soul was given the boost they needed to keep serving the community.
BY Courtney Larson, Communications and Marketing Officer at FM Area Foundation
24 | AUGUST 2020 | FARGOMONTHLY.COM
Volunteers prepare sack lunches.
ince 1960, FM Area Foundation has been assisting our community with their charitable giving. And in March, as the coronavirus reared its daunting head onto our community, the FM Area Foundation did what it does best and activated its Community Response Fund of Cass and Clay Counties. To address the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the Fargo-Moorhead area, The Foundation funded the Community Response Fund with $250,000 to be used as a challenge grant to the community to encourage donations. “We’ve put in $250,000, and we’re asking people in our community to collectively give another $250,000, so we can mobilize half a million dollars in grants to local nonprofits providing direct services to people in the area,” said FM Area Foundation Executive Director, Tim Beaton. Grants from the Community Response Fund go to qualified nonprofit organizations
