Northern's 48-hour campus food pantry fundraiser a success

Press release

Last week, the Montana State University-Northern Foundation launched a 48-hour Facebook fundraiser to support the campus food pantry and a Students in Need fund, raising $4,600 and more than doubling their goal.

"We were thrilled with the outcome given that the fundraiser was spontaneous and only via social media," Montana State University-Northern Foundation Executive Director Shantel Cronk said. "We are very thankful for the generosity of our donors, many of whom didn't realize we had a food pantry on campus."

Cronk returned to her desk Oct. 15 from a meeting with Chan...