AmeriCorps Programs

AmeriCorps

CNCS - The Corporation for Community & National Sevices (CNCS) is the nation’s largest grantmaker supporting service and volunteering. CNCS is the umbrella organization of AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Learn & Serve.

My AmeriCorps- Check out your AmeriCorps porthole at Americorps.gov to complete paperwork, read about service benefits, and get other questions answered.

Americorps Alums
This site offers a career center where former (or soon to exit) members can search for jobs, provides news stories that relate to AmeriCorps, supports legislation that benefits AmeriCorps. As of this posting, there are 123 former Montana members who have registered with this site.

AmeriCorps Programs of Montana

AmeriCorps State

Jobs for Montana's Graduates Foundation

JMGF AmeriCorps serves as a volunteer incentive and also as a means to engage Montana’s young adults in volunteer service to their schools and local community based organizations.By completing 300 hours of volunteer service and training in the program year (Sept 1- Aug 31), AmeriCorps Members serving with the Jobs for Montana's Graduates Foundation (JMGF) will earn a $1,000 Education Award voucher that can be used for higher education at qualified colleges nationwide and/or towards student loans for a period of up to 7 years. JMGF AmeriCorps Members are aged 17-24 and deliver direct service to meet community needs, recruit volunteers and complete leadership activities. Members earn hours a few ways; 240 hours must be direct service, up to 60 can be member development, such as attending trainings and working on personal, professional & service related goals and up to 30 hours can be earned thru fundraising activities.

Sarah R. Sadowski
AmeriCorps Program Director
1806 11th Street
Helena, MT 59601
406.443.2413
406.442.2296 (fax)
http://www.jmgf-mt.org/americorps.htm

Literacy Support Corps

The Literacy Support Corps is an AmeriCorps program hosted by WORD (Women's opportunity and Resource Development), a non-profit corporation that has been helping schools and families build strong partnerships since 1993. WORD has facilitated the development of Family Resource Centers in schools across Western Montana. The Literacy Support Corps began in August 2002 under the guidance of WORD.

Jeanne Moon
Program Director
406-543-3550, ext. 248
2525 Palmer St. Ste #1
Missoula, MT 59808
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Montana Campus Corps

Over 800 student AmeriCorps members and 18 non-student AmeriCorps leaders serve with Campus Corps each year, making it the largest AmeriCorps State program in Montana. Campus Corps members are sponsored by Montana Campus Compact (MTCC) affiliate campuses and serve at non-profit community partner sites, high-needs K-12 schools, state and government agencies and healthcare facilities throughout the state. The program's mission is "to actively engage college students in meeting community-identified needs through meaningful service and service-learning." Primary service activities include volunteer recruitment and management, non-profit capacity building, project planning for outreach events and National Service Days hosted by college campuses, and direct services to beneficiaries in areas of Education, Health, Human Needs/Services, Environmental Initiatives, Public Safety, and Economic Recovery. Campus Corps is a leadership and citizenship development program that mobilizes students to meet community needs at more than 300 local service sites in nearly every county of our state.

Eric Cardella
Program Manager
The Montana Campus Compact
302 University Hall
Missoula, MT 59812-3960
[phone] (ext 6)
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Montana Conservation Corps (MCC)

MCC is a crew based program working to enhance the social and natural environment of Montana by providing AmeriCorps members with service opportunities in natural and human resource stewardship. The Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) goals address the needs of two of our most precious resources — our young people and our environment. Valuable, meaningful projects ensure a setting where our crews will learn job skills, work habits and become knowledgeable about the environment. In an average year, 160 members work on natural resource projects that include: 130 miles of trail building and maintenance, 25 miles of fencing installed and 20 parks improved. Crews also perform a variety of service projects addressing community needs including: repairing senior citizen homes, distributing food to the needy and repairing buildings for non-profit agencies. MCC is a place where young people do good things, become good citizens and make our community a better place.

Lee Gault
Program Director
206 North Grand Ave
Bozeman, MT 59715
406-587-4475 or 1 866 JOIN MCC
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Montana Making $ense

Montana Making $ense is an AmeriCorps program administered by the Office for Civic Engagment at the University of Montana. MM$ places AmeriCorps members with community organizations to adapt and implement financial literacy training and outreach.

The mission of MM$ is to provide human resources to expand the financial education capability of human service organizations in the state; and to improve lives by educating and empowering the citizens of Montana to manage their money wisely in order to avoid financial instability and its corollary effects.

MM$ envisions a Montana in which citizens are empowered to succeed and prosper, where people understand their potential and capacity, and are not at the mercy of those who do not have their best interests at heart.

Bob Springer
Program Director
The Office for Civic Engagement
Davidson Honors College 015
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
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www.dhc.umt.edu/oce/mms.html

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Billings Metro VISTA Project (MVP)

Billings' Mayor’s Committee on Homelessness was formed in 2006 to address the need to end chronic homelessness. An annual point-in-time survey conducted each January has identified an average of over 600 homeless persons in Billings over the last four years (2005-2008). The Committee’s focus is to partner with local organizations and community members in a pursuit to reduce the number of homeless persons in Billings, reduce the risk of homelessness and create the tools people in poverty need to build sustainable futures. In order to maintain momentum for this initiative the City of Billings has formed an AmeriCorps VISTA Project known as Billings Metro VISTA Project (MVP).

Tammy Johnston
Billings MVP
[phone]

Communities in Action (CIA)

Administered by the Richland County Health Department in Sidney, Montana, the project incorporates a multi-faceted approach to creating healthy communities in the Eastern Montana, and Western North Dakota. CIA is building an infrastructure in response to the modern day needs of frontier life through identifying, developing, implementing, sustaining, and evaluating healthy approaches to community development.

Stacey Schmitt
Communities In Action
124 Central Ave
Sidney, MT 59270
[phone]
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The Montana Campus Compact (MTCC) VISTA

MTCC VISTA project is a statewide national service project working to make colleges and universities in Montana vital resources in community problem solving. MTCC VISTA’s serve from Montana College campuses and work closely with community members to solve local problems in the areas of, child literacy, hunger, housing and health. Working closely with faculty members, students and community members, MTCC VISTAs help communities develop long-term solutions to Montana’s poverty problems. Currently, the project has 25 full-time members.

Cody Lillstrom
Program Manager
The Montana Campus Compact
302 University Hall
Missoula, MT 59812-3960
[phone] (ext 3)
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Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA)

MLSA is a non profit organization dedicated to providing free civil legal assistance to low-income Montana residents. It is the mission of MLSA to provide access to the justice system by delivering high quality civil legal assistance to the greatest number of low income Montanans in priority areas of law, as determined by clients and others in the community. MLSA currently has 17 AmeriCorps *VISTA members serving throughout the state of Montana. The members work together in assisting MLSA, its partner organizations and local communities, within the project areas of domestic abuse, creating sustainable asset development strategies, and developing legal resources to assist MLSA in providing free civil legal assistance for low-income Montanans.

Steven Dorr
VISTA Project Coordinator
616 Helena Ave. Suite 100
Helena, Montana 59601
1-800-666-6124
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Prevention Resource Center (PRC)

The Prevention Resource Center, a prevention agency housed within the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, sponsors AmeriCorps*VISTA members throughout Montana. Currently, PRC has 15 VISTA’s serving across the state, from recent college graduates to natives of Montana who were looking to make a difference in their communities. Each VISTA members work with communities through non-profit agencies that provide prevention programs in five areas: youth substance use and violence, school drop , child abuse and teen pregnancy.

Vicki Turner
Prevention Resource Center
PO Box 4210
Helena, MT 59604
PH: 406-444-3484
FAX: [phone]
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Other Programs

Montana Citizen Corps

The mission of Citizen Corps is to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service to make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to the threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds.

Scott Peterson
Citizen Corps Program Specialist
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Mobile/Cell: [phone]
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AmeriCorps Attorneys

Michelle Hauer
VISTA Project Coordinator
616 Helena Ave. Suite 100
Helena, Montana 59601
1-800-666-6124
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