Moore Love 2025 Donates More than $300K to Nonprofits

Moore Public Schools completed its annual fundraising effort for local nonprofits and its students, their families, employees, community members and business partners raised a combined total of $318,307.78. High school students who served as Moore Love officers and Student Council leaders, along with STUCO and Moore Love sponsors from Bryant and Oakridge traveled to the Moore Police Department and to the Moore Faith Medical Clinic on April 14 to deliver Moore Love checks last week. The other beneficiaries met students at the Administrative Services Center to start the day. Students also heard an update and had samples from Moore Love 2024 beneficiary, Not Your Average Joe, on the progress of a coffee shop in Moore. 

The nonprofits were selected as beneficiaries in July 2024 by Superintendent Leadership Academy students from Moore, Westmoore and Southmoore High School. Funds they receive will help them sustain selected programs or develop new initiatives.

This is the eighth year of the MPS Moore Love philanthropic initiative, focusing on engaging the MPS community to unite as one fundraising powerhouse to provide funding to local nonprofits that support MPS students and families. The set MPS fundraising month is February, but students begin their activities for their intra-district competition almost as soon as school starts in August.

The Moore Love 2024-25 beneficiaries are:  

• Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma (Moore Food & Resource Center): MPS has previously worked with RFBO to provide food in backpacks for approximately 700 MPS elementary students without enough food at home to sustain them over the weekend. Learn more: regionalfoodbank.org

• Moore Faith Medical Clinic: They started their health and medical clinic and pharmacy nonprofit in 2015 to address that one in four Oklahomans goes without medical care. Many times, those without medical care and poor health get into situations that compound, including missed work, job loss, bankruptcy, homelessness and more. Their volunteers have served patients and given more than 80,000 hours to community members in need. Learn more: moorefaithclinic.com  

   

• Fostering Sweet Dreams: FSD impacts the lives of Oklahoma’s most vulnerable children daily. FSD began in 2016 by providing beds to foster and kinship families that were bringing children into their home, often after cases of abuse and neglect. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OHS) requires that each foster child in a house have their own bed. Getting good sleep is essential to optimal physical, mental, and emotional health. Often, the children FSD serves are going through a traumatic time in their lives. Learn more:  fosteringsweetdreams.com

 

• Moore Police Department: Safety Town The Moore Police Department has three primary juvenile programs: Kops and Kids (elementary), Junior Police Academy (junior high summer program), and the Cadet Academy (high school age). The Northwest section of our community can be a challenging area due to socioeconomic issues and family structure. There is a high level of violent crimes in this area, and children who experience routine adverse childhood experiences (ACE's). MPS looks to build a Safety Town Children's Center in Parmele Park and have three child-outreach and resource programs operate through the site. Learn more: cityofmoore.com  

   

• MPS Foundation: Bridges Capital Campaign The biggest focus this year for the Moore Public Schools Foundation is a capital campaign called Building Bridges. Together, Moore Public Schools, MPSF, and Bridges, Inc. are working to make the dream of the Bridges of Moore Village a reality. Since 2002, MPS students have raised over $300,000 for this campaign. Bridges takes in students who - through no fault of their own - find themselves homeless or shelter insecure. Bridges helps students with food, clothing, medical needs, and above all else – stable housing. When completed, Bridges of Moore will provide housing for up to twenty unaccompanied MPS youth. Learn more: mooreschools.com/BuildingBridges  

Student leadership students heard hopeful recipients during Pitch Day in late summer and they made the selections before the school year started. These students drive the fundraising efforts for their schools and assist the junior high and elementary schools with fundraising ideas and encouragement.

I tell our students every year that their efforts will be realized for years to come after their donations are made to selected nonprofits. 

- Dr. Romines

One high school, one junior high, and three elementary schools with the highest fundraising totals also received a trophy: 

• Moore High School - $42,296.49
• Feeder School Pattern Winner - MHS, $115,404.47
• Brink Junior High - $17,029.50
• MHS Feeder Elementary - Bryant, $14,269.43
• WHS Feeder Elementary - South Lake, $27,494.20
• SHS Feeder Elementary - Oakridge, $11,157.47

MPS is the fourth-largest Oklahoma public school district (FY25), with approximately 24,250 students in 35 school sites and approximately 2,700 employees.