Programs
The Montana Campus Compact provides funding, educational awards, technical assistance, up-to-date research, training, and grants to support and encourage civic engagement activities across the state. MTCC seeks to make an immediate impact on communities, students, and institutions and create sustainable change in the state of Montana through the following programs:
Montana Campus Corps
The mission of Montana Campus Corps is to actively engage college students in meeting community-identified needs through meaningful service. Each year, this AmeriCorps program places students from MTCC member institutions with community agencies, non-profit organizations, schools, and healthcare facilities to address Montana's most challenging problems. Campus Corps members serve in the fields of education, human services, public health and safety, the environment, and homeland security, and are helping to improve our state while gaining valuable connections and skills, and insight into communities and careers in the common good.
MTCC VISTA Project
VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) members serve full-time, one-year terms at MTCC member institutions to strengthen the infrastructure of service to low-income populations. Members coordinate volunteer efforts and expand the financial resources available to communities for volunteer efforts by engaging in:
- Resource mobilization
- Campus-Community partnership coordination
- Fundraising and grant writing
- Sustainability planning
Montana Raise Your Voice
Montana Raise Your Voice (RYV) builds capacity for college student governments in Montana through training, support, resources and a statewide network to strengthen their efforts to engage their student bodies. RYV brings students from each of Montana's higher education institutions together to renew the ethic of democratic participation and citizenship. Students initiate projects to increase civic engagement opportunities across the state. Simultaneously, these students work closely with their institutions' administrations to make higher education more responsive to student voices.
Service-Learning
The Montana Campus Compact has awarded distinguished Faculty Fellowships to scholars at Compact member institutions since 1997. The fellowships have encouraged rigorous and meaningful service-learning. In fall 2000, The Montana Campus Compact awarded its first Student Fellowships. Built on the model of the successful Faculty Fellowship Program, Student Fellowships provided exceptional students with the opportunity to enhance curricular education with hands-on community service work and training in citizenship.
