FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Doosan Bobcat employees help out the Dakota Boys & Girls Ranch by bolstering its retention pond. It’s part of Doosan Bobcat’s company-wide volunteer effort as thousands across the globe are giving back to the towns they live in. Officials say they look to their communities to see what they need, empowering them to accomplish more. “What…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Kiwanis Club of Fargo awards the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch with a $2,500 grant. It will help renovate and furnish their library and media center at Dakota Memorial School The school educates students with complex learning needs due to psychiatric, behavioral, social/emotional, and trauma challenges. “The kids use this area for their library. They…
MINOT, N.D. – Workers sorting through donations for the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch in Minot made an unexpected discovery. A worker who was handling a garbage bag of donations found marijuana that came from the Berthold Police Department. Berthold Police Chief Al Schmidt said his department takes donations of clothes, blankets and other items to the Minot ranch. A…
FARGO, N.D.–Cass County Electric Cooperative has awarded Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch a $2,500 grant. The grant will help with remodeling the Dakota Memorial School by adding classrooms and other learning spaces. The Dakota Memorial School provides in-class trauma-sensitive education for at-risk kids. Children in the psychiatric residential treatment facilities as well as students from local public schools attend the…
FARGO, N.D.–The Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Thrift Stores are offering pre-packaged bags of Easter merchandise for families on Tuesday, April 7. Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch will be distributing the packages in the parking lots from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Devils Lake and Dilworth locations are excluded. The stores are limiting one package per child and a suggested…
FARGO, N.D. — People are escaping the cold and warming up to helping people in need. It’s all at the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Pop Up Thrift Boutique. For one day only the organization set up a thrift shop on Broadway selling items ranging from Christmas sweaters, winter gear and furniture. The store helps raise money for the organization…
FARGO, N.D. — Because of the outpouring support from the customers and donors in the three other stores in the F–M are, the organization decided to open another store. “Humbled. With how much support our stores receive. Whether that’d be donating, whether that’d be purchasing and buying items, whether that’d be volunteering. It is a joy and a great…
FARGO, N.D. — Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Thrift Store on 32nd Avenue South in Fargo has a new look after being remodeled over the last 10 months. They held a ribbon–cutting ceremony to celebrate, and they also joined the Chamber of Commerce. The expansion increases the floor space by 1,500 square feet, and there are more checkout counters and warehouse…
FARGO, N.D. — A house may be what someone lives in but what truly makes it a home is the way that it makes them feel. To make at–risk–youth feel more at home, the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch remodeled their Fargo Youth Home. Three years ago, the DBGR realized they were helping at–risk teenagers find hope but the place they…
Home Builders Association donates toiletry items to the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch.
