KVRR’s Maggie LaMere speaks with Pat Traynor, executive director of Dakota Medical and Impact Foundations, about the goals for Giving Hearts Day. Click on the link to make a donation. Categories: Morning – In The Community Tags: charities, Dakota Medical Foundation, GIVING HEARTS DAY
FARGO, N.D. — With Giving Hearts Day taking place Thursday, several organizations around town are making their case to get more community support. The New American Consortium held an open house and lunch to tell people more about their goals for this year. For the last three years, they have used their contributions from Giving Hearts Day to fund English tutoring…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moore engineering is doing its part in preparation for Giving Hearts Day by donating to Churches United for the Homeless. The company visited the Moorhead location to hand deliver a check totaling $11,880. The money was raised by Moore Engineering’s employees and then matched by the company. Donating to a worthy cause is an annual thing for Moore…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — It’s all the carbs you can eat and helping those who have served our country in the process. The Honor Flight of North Dakota and Minnesota held their annual pasta feed, silent auction and bake sale fundraiser. It costs about $150,000 for the group to take more than 90 veterans on a trip to our nation’s capital. In…
FARGO, N.D. — Gate City Bank launches its nomination contest where 30 charities from around the community can each win $2,500. That’s only $75,000 of the $250,000 Gate City is giving away this year as part of Giving Hearts Day. Part of the reason the bank has chosen to run their contest each year is so community members can choose who…
FARGO, N.D. — Giving Hearts Day was more than two months ago, but Gate City Bank keeps the giving season alive with a surprise donation to one randomly chosen nonprofit. The lucky recipient this year? Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Village “To receive an additional $9500 from Gate City Bank, we’re just so grateful and thankful to Gate City…
You really opened your wallets and purses wide on Giving Hearts Day last Thursday. The annual fundraising event raised over $13.1 million through more than 63,000 donations. Just some of the top charities included: The Arts Partnership, Emergency Food Pantry, F5 Project, Churches United for the Homeless, Great Plains Food Bank and YWCA Cass Clay. Giving Hearts Day charities have…
FARGO, N.D. — One upstart organization hopes Giving Hearts Day helps them fuel the future of art in the Metro. The Creative Plains Foundation looks to use its donations to fund its new After School Arts program. The organization plans to fund ten scholarships for children to attend their program for ten weeks. With an optimistic outlook on encouraging interest…
Lydia Leopold and Joe Cleys with Inspire Innovation Lab show Adam how to make unicorn poop slime. It’s sticky. It’s sparkly. And Lydia knows more about the science involved in it than Adam ever will. Inspire Innovation Lab is one of the organizations participating in Giving Hearts Day. Donations help provide scholarships for kids to attend summer camp for…
The Queen of Hearts herself joins us to celebrate Giving Hearts Day on KVRR Local News. Actually, she’s Dianne Nechiporenko with Catholic Charities. She tells us about Giving Hearts Day. Organizers are hoping for 50,000 donations spread out among more than 400 charities in North Dakota and Minnesota. Nechiporenko also tells us about some of the work that Catholic…
