Feeding Children in the Northland Pines School District
It costs $3.55 to feed a child one meal in Vilas County. That is 28% more than the average cost of the same meals average cost in Wisconsin as a whole. (Feeding America)
And, unfortunately, there is always an on-going need. Your donation of any amount is appreciated to help us meet our goal of zero hungry children in the Northland Pines School District. For ways to donate other than online Credit Card, please see:
https://www.feedourruralkids.org/donate.html
If you wish for your donation to be used in a particular FORK program, please include it in the memo line of the donation form. Otherwise, we will put it where it is needed most at the current time. Thank you so much for your support of FORK and the children.
And, unfortunately, there is always an on-going need. Your donation of any amount is appreciated to help us meet our goal of zero hungry children in the Northland Pines School District. For ways to donate other than online Credit Card, please see:
https://www.feedourruralkids.org/donate.html
If you wish for your donation to be used in a particular FORK program, please include it in the memo line of the donation form. Otherwise, we will put it where it is needed most at the current time. Thank you so much for your support of FORK and the children.
Featured Program
The Northland Pines Cross Country Team has accepted the challenge to raise as much money as possible in the next two weeks to stock "The Locker"!
FORK will MATCH all donations up to $5,000.
To learn more about "The Locker" and the challenge, click here.
If you want to donate to the Cross Country Team's fundraiser, click below
More information on programs to help families with food-insecure children - both FORK-sponsored and from other organizations - can be found on our "GET HELP" Page.
The 2021 Ice Cream Ride will be on August 14 - Mark your calendars! Click here for more information.
FORK Cares
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The mission of Feed Our Rural Kids (FORK) has been, from the beginning, to provide nutritional support to school-aged children from food insecure homes within the Northland Pines School District.
This year our program, FORK Cares, will reach out to children to provide incremental nutritional support during the isolating summer vacation months of July and August as well as during the children's Christmas break. Through this new program, 150 children whose families qualify for free school meals during the school year, have been given the opportunity to receive Fork Cares Packages. During the upcoming summer, each child will receive two FORK Cares deliveries in both July and August. Those FORK Cares deliveries will each consist of 14 supplemental meals delivered directly to the child’s home address. During the Christmas Holiday those same children will receive shipments of food directly to their homes. “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed original plans around FORK Cares. Due to FORK needing to provide 1 less month of FORK Cares support, and due to an increase of local financial support, the FORK Cares packages will now be filled in order to provide kids a meal a day during vacation periods," states FORK President Perry Pokrandt. The challenge around food insecurity for school-aged children is large, and FORK is grateful to our community support to fully fund our FORK Cares effort during Summer and Christmas Vacation in 2020. Individuals who would like to participate financially to help us fund these efforts in 2021 please click the FORK Cares link below. Thanks for your support! |
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