United Savings Credit Union of Fargo kicked off a fundraiser for the Great Plains Food Bank back on October 24th.� With an initial goal of providing 3,500 meals to the community over a two week period, by the end of the first day they had already surpassed their goal!� In the end, the credit union with the help of its members ended up being able to provide over 13,000 meals to their community with their donation of $3,300.
Nick Woodard, United Savings Credit Union CEO, said "I could not be more proud of our membership and staff for their hard work on this fundraiser.� United Savings Credit Union has a tradition of giving back to the community and what better way to do that than by helping feed Fargo-Moorhead this holiday season?"
About one in ten people in the Fargo-Moorhead area seek help from food pantries, homeless shelters, etc.� To help combat hunger, the Great Plains Food Bank has been serving all of North Dakota and western Minnesota for 30 years.� They have 12 different programs that offer hunger relief to those in need.� For every $1 donated to the Great Plains Food Bank, 4 meals are provided.� For more information on how you can help end hunger in your community, visit
www.greatplainsfoodbank.org.
The donation from United Savings Credit Union was presented to the Great Plains Food Bank on November 25
th at their facility where credit union staff was also able to take a brief tour.� The facility includes a warehouse that is capable of holding up to 52 semi-truck loads of food and their average inventory is about one million pounds of food (769,231 meals).
Below is the link of the story that showed on the local WDAY TV News.
http://www.wday.com/content/credit-union-donates-great-plans-food-bank-enough-13000-meals
Photo check presentation: � From left to right, �Cinder Buzick, Steve Sellent (Program Director of the Great Plains Food Bank), Nick Woodard, Jan Welch, Cheri Bjerken, and Heidi Peterson.
United Savings Credit Union of Fargo kicked off a fundraiser for the Great Plains Food Bank back on October 24th.� With an initial goal of providing 3,500 meals to the community over a two week period, by the end of the first day they had already surpassed their goal!� In the end, the credit union with the help of its members ended up being able to provide over 13,000 meals to their community with their donation of $3,300.
Nick Woodard, United Savings Credit Union CEO, said "I could not be more proud of our membership and staff for their hard work on this fundraiser.� United Savings Credit Union has a tradition of giving back to the community and what better way to do that than by helping feed Fargo-Moorhead this holiday season?"
About one in ten people in the Fargo-Moorhead area seek help from food pantries, homeless shelters, etc.� To help combat hunger, the Great Plains Food Bank has been serving all of North Dakota and western Minnesota for 30 years.� They have 12 different programs that offer hunger relief to those in need.� For every $1 donated to the Great Plains Food Bank, 4 meals are provided.� For more information on how you can help end hunger in your community, visit www.greatplainsfoodbank.org.
The donation from United Savings Credit Union was presented to the Great Plains Food Bank on November 25th at their facility where credit union staff was also able to take a brief tour.� The facility includes a warehouse that is capable of holding up to 52 semi-truck loads of food and their average inventory is about one million pounds of food (769,231 meals).
Below is the link of the story that showed on the local WDAY TV News.
http://www.wday.com/content/credit-union-donates-great-plans-food-bank-enough-13000-meals
Photo check presentation: � From left to right, �Cinder Buzick, Steve Sellent (Program Director of the Great Plains Food Bank), Nick Woodard, Jan Welch, Cheri Bjerken, and Heidi Peterson.