Short answer
Help Me is a place to ask your block for the small stuff in Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead. This directory lists every page: cities, neighborhoods, small-favor topics, guides, plain answers, and the official numbers to call when something is more than a neighbor can handle.
The facts, in one place
- Cities and neighborhoods explain the places Help Me is launching in.
- Help topics cover the small stuff: chargers, directions, jump starts, heavy lifting.
- Resource pages point to police, county services, 211, and campus public safety.
- Help Me is not an emergency service. In danger, call 911.
A local app, with local pages
Help Me is built for Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead, and for the people who share their roads, campuses, and winters. These pages exist so a person, or a search engine, or an answer engine, can find the honest version: how asking for help works, who can give it, and where the official calendars come from.
Nothing here invents a feature the iPhone app does not ship. Helping requires a current review by our team. Live requests show as a rough area about 500 meters wide. Chat is private between the two people. Meeting in public is the default. 911 is still 911.
How to use this directory
If you live here, start with your city or neighborhood. If you want a definition, open the glossary. If you are comparing tools, start with the comparisons and alternatives. If you need an official phone number, open Resources. Those pages send you to police, campus public safety, 211, and county services, not to a stranger in the app.
- Places: cities, neighborhoods, and campuses.
- Product: how it works, helping, ground rules, events, and community.
- Help topics: the small stuff, from phone chargers to jump starts in daylight.
- Learn: the glossary, guides, and lists.
- Answers: one-question pages for the things people type into a search bar.
- Seasons: what this metro needs in January, August, and everything between.
What this directory is not
It is not a place to request help. Only the iPhone app creates a request, and only helpers who have been reviewed by our team can accept one. These pages explain; the app does the asking.
197 public pages
Product
Who it's for
- For people who would have stopped anyway
- For neighbors, not for an audience
- New in town, on purpose
- For parents who want the honest version
- For older adults who need one thing, not a program
- For veterans who would rather ask a neighbor
- For parents in the blur
- For people whose lease ends in May
- For the people who leave when the lot is empty
- For people who drive in every day
- For people doing this metro on foot
- For congregations that already do this
- For the organizations doing the heavy version
- For anyone about to meet their first real winter
Indexes
- Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead, and the towns around them
- Nine parts of the metro, and where to meet in each
- The campuses that are part of this metro
- The small stuff you can ask for
- Words we actually mean
- Guides for the days that stall
- Official help, listed on purpose
- Lists for a metro that actually exists
- Every question, answered in a paragraph
- The Fargo–Moorhead year, one season at a time
Direct answers
- What is the Help Me app?
- Is Help Me free to use?
- What happens when you meet someone?
- Who can see my location on Help Me?
- How do I become a Helper?
- Does Help Me run background checks?
- Is there an Android version of Help Me?
- How do I download Help Me?
- Does Help Me work outside Fargo-Moorhead?
- Can I pay someone who helps me?
- How long does a request stay open?
- What happens if nobody says yes?
- Can I cancel a request?
- Who is Help Me actually for?
- Is Help Me an emergency service?
- How do I delete my account?
- What can I actually ask for?
- What should I not ask for?
- Does Help Me give out my phone number?
- Can I block someone?
- How does matching actually work?
- Where do the events come from?
- Where should I meet someone?
- How do I report a problem?
- Who do I contact for support?
- Do I have to share my exact location?
- Is Help Me a gig app?
- What does "It starts with me" mean?
Seasons
- Winter here is a logistics problem
- The first snow makes everyone a beginner again
- A blizzard is the one day to close the app
- Thirty below changes the math
- Spring here arrives as water
- Summer arrives loud
- Late August, and everyone is carrying something
- Game day rearranges the north side
- May, and everything is on the curb
Cities
Neighborhoods
- Downtown Fargo, where the lights are already on
- North Fargo, where 19th Avenue does the commuting
- Central Fargo, the older grid with real yards
- South Fargo, past 32nd and still growing
- West Acres, where cars go to sleep in January
- Downtown Moorhead, Center Avenue first
- South Moorhead, where the city keeps adding streets
- The Lights, West Fargo's public plaza
- Sheyenne Street, the street West Fargo actually uses
Campuses
Help topics
- A jump start, from someone nearby
- Winter car help, which is just Fargo from November on
- A flat tire, in a lot where you can stop
- Bike help, from someone with a pump
- Snow help, when the plow leaves a gift
- Locked out. A neighbor is not a locksmith.
- A walk with someone, on purpose
- Walk me to the car
- A study buddy, without a group chat of 200
- Tech help, the neighbor kind
- Directions, because this grid only looks simple
- A local guide, for a minute
- Which bus, and where does it stop?
- Lost something? Ask the block.
- Two more hands for something heavy
- Move-in weekend, and everyone needs the same elevator
- Groceries up the stairs, from the trunk
Guides
- How to ask for help without an audience
- How to become a helper
- How to meet someone new, with your head on straight
- Meet in public. That is the whole rule.
- How location works, and how it does not
- How to be the person people are glad showed up
- For people who would rather walk home in the cold
- Winter help, before the wind chill becomes the story
- New to Fargo, on purpose
- New to NDSU, without pretending you already know 19th Avenue
- New to MSUM, on the Minnesota side
- New to Concordia, small campus, real city
- New to M State, Moorhead campus
- How to read Fargo-Moorhead events without a fifth app
- Downtown Fargo at night, without making the alley the meeting place
- West Fargo help, as its own city
- How to jump start a car without wrecking either one
- The winter kit, ranked by how badly you will want it
- How to help someone who is stuck
- Digging out without hurting yourself
- How to actually use MATBUS
- Your car will not start. Now what?
- Moving out without losing your deposit
- Bedfit: a place to work on sexual confidence
Lists
- Things to do in Fargo-Moorhead that you will still recognize in February
- Public meeting places you can actually name in a chat
- Where to meet someone in Moorhead
- The campuses this metro actually has
- Ways neighbors actually help here
- Late night in Fargo, with the last bus in mind
- Study spots you can name without sharing a dorm pin
- Free help, with the right door for each problem
- Which tool fits which problem
- Fargo-Moorhead events, source by source
- Parking lots where cars die, and where to meet instead of a driveway
- The numbers worth knowing before you need them
- Eight ways a first winter goes wrong
- Six questions before you meet anyone
- What people actually ask for here
Glossary
- Helper review
- A help request
- Approximate location
- Private chat
- Meet in public
- Identity evidence
- The live map
- Community posts
- Report and block
- Account deletion
- TestFlight
- Completion and reviews
- Online status
- Event attribution
- The daily brief
- Precision finding
- 211
- 511 road conditions
- 988
- Block heater
- Jump pack
- Plow berm
- Snow emergency
- Wind chill
- The Fargo-Moorhead metro
Official resources
- Emergencies: 911, then the right local desk
- Cass County resources (North Dakota)
- Clay County resources (Minnesota)
- NDSU Police and Safety — official campus help
- MSUM Public Safety — official campus help
- Concordia Public Safety — official campus help
- Fargo Police — official city law enforcement
- Moorhead Police — official Minnesota-side law enforcement
- West Fargo Police — official city law enforcement
- MATBUS — official metro transit
- Fargo Public Library — official public indoor ground
- Homeless services — call official programs, not a neighbor app
- Food assistance — official pantries and benefits, not an app request
- Mental health help — official crisis lines, not a neighbor chat
- Domestic violence help — official advocates, not this app
- Winter shelter — official beds, not an app pin
- NDSU Student Health — official campus clinic
- 211 in North Dakota — FirstLink
- 211 in Minnesota — including Moorhead
- United Way of Cass-Clay
- Great Plains Food Bank
- Churches United for the Homeless
- YWCA Cass Clay
- Where to get actual legal help
- Veterans services in the metro
Questions people actually ask
No. City and neighborhood pages explain the area, and resource pages point to official services. Only the iPhone app creates a request, and only reviewed helpers can accept one.
Help Me is launching in Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead first, one zone at a time. Event calendars and matching are local, and the app shows what is open near you.
On the Resources pages. They list police, county services, 211, and campus public safety offices. For danger, call 911 or your local emergency number.
Keep going
- AboutA place to ask your block for the small stuffHelp Me is a place to ask your block for the small stuff in Fargo-Moorhead. One sentence, a neighbor can say yes, and you meet in public. It starts with me.
- Ground rulesThe ground rules, said plainlyHow Help Me handles your location, who can help, private chat, and meeting in public. Plus how to report or block anyone. Help Me is not an emergency service.
- How it worksHow Help Me worksAsk in one sentence. A neighbor nearby can say yes. You chat privately and meet in a public place. Four steps, for the small stuff in Fargo-Moorhead.
- QuestionsEvery question, answered in a paragraphPlain answers about Help Me in Fargo-Moorhead: cost, location, meeting people, who can help, Android, age, payment, and what the app will never do.
- Where it startsFargo, West Fargo, Moorhead, and the towns around themHelp Me is launching in Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead first, one zone at a time. Start here to find your city and the small stuff your block can help with.
- The small stuffThe small stuff you can ask forA phone charger, directions, a jump start in daylight, two more hands for a couch. The everyday favors Help Me is for in Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead.
Help Me is a community app for adults in Fargo–Moorhead. It is not a K–12 student program, not a youth chat, and not campus police.