BACKPACK PROGRAM

We believe that when a child is fed, they are equipped to learn, grow and imagine a future filled with opportunity.

Childhood hunger has an impact in our community. During the school year, more than 33,000 children across North Dakota qualify for and greatly rely on the federal free and reduced lunch program to meet their daily nutritional needs. But on weekends, many of these children struggle with hunger.

Hunger among children can have lifelong and extremely costly consequences. Hungry children suffer physical, emotional and developmental impairment. They are sick and hospitalized more often. Hungry children don’t learn as well at school, which limits their potential and productivity as adults. Adults who experienced hunger as children are often not as well prepared mentally, emotionally, physically, or socially to perform in today’s work environment.

Join us as we tackle childhood hunger.

Here is how you can help:

Donate Funds

Currently it costs $5.00 to fill a backpack with milk, juice, snacks and food for three meals. To sponsor a child for an entire year, it costs $190. If you would like to ensure children have what they need to learn and grow, donate here .

Volunteer Your Time

Each week volunteers of all ages are welcomed to assist with hunger relief efforts at the Great Plains Food Bank, 1720 3rd Ave. N in Fargo. If you are interested in volunteering contact our volunteer manager:

Nick Bremer

Want to host a BackPack Program?

Requirements

At the Great Plains Food Bank, food safety and child safety are among our top priorities and we require food safety training for those operating the BackPack Program and background checks for those with frequent contact with students. Programs outside the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo community will need a 501c3 sponsor as each will be responsible for funding their own programs. Local schools may place a request to be included in the Backpack Program and will be accepted based on funding and the opportunity to expand.

For more information about starting the BackPack in your school contact:

Janelle Brandon | Programs and Partner Network Director

CONTACT US

FARGO

1720 3rd Ave N
Fargo, ND 58102
(701) 232-6219
info@greatplainsfoodbank.org

BISMARCK

1315 South 20th Street
Bismarck, ND 58504
(701) 751-6188

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PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Great Plains Food Bank regarding websites located at www.greatplainsfoodbank.org and give.greatplainsfoodbank.org . Great Plains Food Bank reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting. Great Plains Food Bank (“us”, “we”, “our”). Website visitor, guest, and/or donor (“you”, “user”).

Information Collection

Personal Information You Choose to Provide In the process of general correspondence, making a gift, or participating in online surveys you may be asked to supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other information. If you correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our responses.
Website Use Information Similar to most websites, our site may utilize “cookies” and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, pages viewed, time spent on our website, and the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate basis; none of this information is associated with you as an individual.

How Do We Use Information

That You Provide to Us? We use personal information for purposes of administering our not-for-profit business activities, providing service and support, and making available other information and services to our website visitors, guests, agency partners, advocates, contracted consultants, and approved vendors. We may use the information provided to notify you about important changes to our website, new services, or new information that supports your interest in hunger-relief.
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How Do We Protect Your Information?
- We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
- Our operations and business practices are periodically reviewed for compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
- Our organization values ethical standards, policies and practices and is committed to the protection of user information. Our not-for-profit business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limits the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
- How Do We Secure Information Transmissions? All information transmitted through our website, giving pages, and forms are sent via secure, encrypted server. Other emails you send to us may not be secure; for that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, credit card, or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
- Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties? We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information. We may provide aggregate information about our website visitors or website traffic patterns to our contracted affiliates or third parties; this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy. Personal information such as email and address may be shared with a contracted third party for the use of email dissemination and direct mail marketing; all third party vendors are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
- Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information? We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
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- The right to download and store or output the materials on our website is granted for personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.
Your Access to and Control of Information
- You may request access to all of your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our donor constituent database, DonorPerfect.
- You may request removal from any communication including but not limited to emails, direct mail pieces, text and phone calls.
- Because we do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information; opting out of such practices is optional and not required.
Contact Great Plains Food Bank/Opt-out

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, need to opt-out of future communications, or wish to exercise any other privacy right you may have by law, please contact us in any of the ways shown below.

Great Plains Food Bank
attn. Development Associate
1720 3 rd Ave N
Fargo, ND 58102

All opt-out requests will be honored, but please be patient with us as it may take up to twelve (12) weeks for opt-out changes to be fully implemented. We may also occasionally initiate contact with opt-out supporters in order to update their contact preferences, and we will promptly accommodate their updated preferences, if any.