FARM RESCUE
Helping Farm Families in Crisis
Mission
The mission of Farm Rescue is to help family farms and ranches bridge crises so they have an opportunity to continue viable operations. Farm Rescue provides planting, haying, harvesting, and livestock feeding assistance to farm and ranch families that have experienced a major injury, illness, or natural disaster.
Ruling year
2005
President and Founder
Bill Gross
Vice President
Kyle Nelsen
Main address
PO Box 28
Horace, ND 58047 USA
EIN
75-3174053
NTEE code
Agricultural Programs (K20)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The mission of Farm Rescue is to help family farms and ranches bridge crises so they have an opportunity to continue viable operations. Farm Rescue provides planting, haying, harvesting and livestock feeding assistance to farm and ranch families that have experienced a major injury, illness or natural disaster. We see that one of the biggest financial drains on a family is an unexpected medical injury or illness and, of course, a natural disaster. It is even more pronounced on a farm where a family's livelihood depends on the ability to plant, harvest or provide for their herd. Farm Rescue gives families a chance to continue their livelihood by providing the necessary equipment and manpower (free of charge) to get the job done.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Planting Assistance
Farm Rescue provides planting of agricultural crops free of charge. The organization is operated entirely by volunteers! We currently serve seven states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Haying Assistance
Farm Rescue provides labor and equipment to assist qualified farmers with baling hay - free of charge. The organization is operated entirely by volunteers! We currently serve seven states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Harvesting Assistance
Farm Rescue provides harvesting of agricultural crops free of charge. The organization is operated entirely by volunteers! We currently serve seven states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Livestock Feeding
Farm Rescue provides labor and equipment to assist qualified ranchers with livestock feeding assistance - free of charge. The organization is operated entirely by volunteers! We currently serve seven states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Farmers
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Due to covid travel restrictions and lockdowns during 2020, fewer volunteers were available to assist us.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Farmers
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Due to covid restrictions and lockdowns during 2020, we were unable to help as many farm and ranch families as usual.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The goal of Farm Rescue is to accomplish the organization's mission of assisting farm families who are experiencing severe crises. Furthermore, Farm Rescue has the goal of increasing the number of farm families who realize assistance through the boots on the ground work of the organization's volunteer base.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
A small and dedicated staff partners with a volunteer president (Farm Rescue founder, Bill Gross), as well as a volunteer board of directors to strategize the mobilizing of volunteers, farm family communications, and fundraising.
There are unique strategies within each of these categories including the following:
• Mobilizing volunteers - through digital mapping technology, work to involve volunteers from the region of the farm family residents.
• Communications - utilize various aspects of digital communications, such as e-blasts and social media, while maintaining personal contact with farm families and assisting with the application process.
• Fundraising - increase business sponsorships and foundation grant funding, while building an individual giving program.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Farm Rescue's ability to help families on their land is dependent upon a dedicated volunteer base, with funding from business sponsors, foundation grants, and individual donors.
The combination of volunteerism and financial support allows for Farm Rescue to help put a crop in the ground, or harvest its bounty, for families that are experiencing crises. Farm families are able to maintain viable operations, which in-turn, strengthens the rural American economy.
Farm Rescue's mission of helping farm families who have experienced an unexpected major injury, illness or natural disaster is beneficial to rural communities throughout North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and eastern Montana.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Farm Rescue assisted its 800th farm or ranch family in 2021. Assistance was given within planting, haying, and harvesting operations as well as hay hauling services, through a volunteer workforce. Viable farming and ranching operations were able to be maintained on these family farms.
We continue to strive to assist 40-50 families each year in the most productive and safe manner possible.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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FARM RESCUE
Board of directorsas of 06/14/2022
Bill Gross
Farm Rescue
Term: 2005 -
Bill Gross
Jed Wall
Kyle Nelson
Shaun Sipma
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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