
Bethany Wall
Executive Director
Friends of the Children Fargo-Moorhead
5183 44th St S, Suite B, Fargo, North Dakota 58104
Executives’ Club Member since November 7, 2024
Bethany accepted the position of Executive Director of Friends of the Children Fargo-Moorhead in April, 2023.
Friends of the Children connects children – all of whom have unique talents – to a paid, professional mentor called a Friend. We hire and train Friends whose full-time jobs are to support our youth to succeed, despite the extremely challenging situations most experience, from as early as age 4 through high school graduation – 12+ years, no matter what.
Our model is distinct, courageous and proven. We redefined youth mentoring by creating the first and only long-term professional mentoring program in the country. Friends are experts in building sustained and nurturing relationships with youth. Our model is evidence-informed and research-based, and we have proven long-term outcomes to show it works.
It makes economic sense. The Harvard Business School Association of Oregon showed that for every $1 invested in Friends of the Children, the community benefits over $7 in saved social costs. Helping one child saves the community $900,000.
In 2016, Bethany co-Founded and still owns and operates Inspire Networking, a multi-chapter professional business organization.