Programs
Through its partnerships with the Montana Commission on Community Service and Corporation for National and Community Service the Montana Campus Compact provides funding, AmeriCorps Education Awards, technical assistance, up-to-date research, training, and grants to support and encourage civic engagement activities across the state. MTCC programs mobilize higher education's resources to serve communities across Montana.
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 health care 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
MTCC VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) members serve full-time, one-year terms with community-based nonprofits, in partnership with nearby MTCC campuses. MTCC VISTAs help communities build and strengthen service infrastructure benefiting low-income populations. MTCC VISTAs help communities start, grow and sustain local service efforts and expand the financial resources available to low-income communities through:
- Resource mobilization
- Campus-Community partnership coordination
- Fundraising and grant writing
- Sustainability planning
Service-Learning
MTCC currently utilizes its Campus Corps program as a tool for campuses to start, grow and support commitments to academic service-learning. Campus Corps members serve with high needs community partners, gain course credit for their service, and reflect upon their service. Campus Corps makes available Training Ground funds to support campuses in their pursuit of citizenship training via service-learning.
Prior to its Campus Corps service-learning initiative,
MTCC awarded distinguished Faculty Fellowships to scholars at Compact member institutions between 1997 and 2004. These fellowships 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.
