Chief Dull Knife College was a 2025 grant recipient, facilitating a variety of domestic violence awareness performances and activities.
July 2026
$4,000 Campus Grants Available for
Domestic Violence Awareness
The Western Region Continuums of Service Consortium (WRCOS), which all MCNCE campuses are a part of, is pleased to offer the Awareness in Action: Bright Sky on Campus grant opportunity to campuses via the Vodafone Americas Foundation. Campus grants will highlight Bright Sky, a unique, community-based tool that gives friends, peers, educators, and students resources to recognize domestic violence and respond safely. By sharing this app across campuses within the west, we can take meaningful, practical steps to address the urgent public health crisis of domestic violence. In 2025 Montana colleges and universities used the grant funding for domestic violence awareness walks and campus activities. This program proposes to engage over 20,000 students across 4 states on or around Domestic Violence Awareness Month, October 2026.
Request for Proposals Now Open!
Deadline: September 4, 2026
Info Call: July 29, 2026 from 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm PT Zoom link: https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/94596030052?pwd=6CW2TUznbhI631hR74jFMNespO91HU.1
Changemakers Montana Nonprofit Association Annual Conference
September 16-18, 2026 in Helena
September 1-30 Online
Change rarely happens all at once. More often, it starts with one person, one idea. It builds with ten people showing up to meetings over months and years. A hundred people answering a call to donate. A thousand people weaving the change into their community. And then, one person bringing it home, inviting their neighbors. Making it their own.
Many of our colleges and universities across the state are hosting national service projects to expand their capacities to meet students basic needs, grow community partnerships and support student engagement and completion. These 1 Year projects begin in September 2026 and are rapidly filling with qualified candidates. Some current service opportunities include:
Food Access Coordinator in Pablo
Salish Kootenai College is looking for a service member to expand food access programming at their on-campus food pantry. Members will coordinate cooking demonstrations, lead a major food drive, and build a data-tracking system to monitor pantry use. This position is a strong fit for anyone looking to build experience in community health outreach, event coordination, and nonprofit partnership building within a Tribal college setting.
Food Access & Outreach Coordinator in Agency
Aaniiih Nakoda College is looking for a service member to grow the Food Lodge and support campus food security. Members will host cooking demonstrations, extend free lunch service hours, and maintain the campus garden while building outreach materials and mapping community food resources. This role builds experience in food access programming, community partnership building, and data collection within a Tribal college setting.
Food Access Coordinator in Lame Deer
Chief Dull Knife College and the Northern Cheyenne Food Pantry are looking for a VISTA member to strengthen food access across the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Members will lead the CDKC Food Pantry, build a referral system connecting students and community members to food resources, and coordinate with local ranchers on food supply donations. This role builds experience in nonprofit partnership building, community organizing, and program development within a Tribal college setting.
These are 1 year positions that start on September 8, 2026. These are great opportunities for recent graduates that are wanting to get some resume building experience, while serving their community!
Living Allowance: $24,962 (distributed every two weeks) Education Award: $7,395 can be used to pay for current college tuition, graduate school, or to pay back qualified student loans upon successfully completing term of service.
Three long-serving Montana CEOs and Campus Network Board Members are retiring. MSU Northern’s Chancellor Greg Kegel, University of Montana Western’s Chancellor Mike Reid and Great Falls College MSU’s Stephanie Erdmann have all served their institutions and our state for years, and we thank them for their commitments to education and the public good in Montana!
Welcome New Montana Higher Ed CEOs
MCNCE welcomes four CEOs to the network! President Shinn (UM), Dean Frost (Great Falls College MSU), Chancellor Brown (MSUN) President Whiteman (Little Big Horn College)
Montana Campuses Turn Remembrance into Action Through 9/11 Day of Service Projects
Last year, Montana Technological University students fed first responders to commemorate the 9/11 Day of Service.
This September, nine Montana colleges and universities within the Montana Campus Network for Civic Engagement will honor the 25th anniversary of the September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance by transforming reflection into meaningful action. Through projects that recognize veterans, first responders, families, and community organizations, students, faculty, staff, and local partners will demonstrate how service continues to unite communities across the state.
Congratulations to the following schools!
$1250 to Flathead Valley Community College, Wendy Jeschke
$1250 to Great Falls College MSU, Joshua Archey
$2500 to Carroll College, Cameron Ferguson
$2500 to University of Montana Western, Rebecca Manna
$2500 to Montana Technological University, Madeline Thomas
$2500 to Blackfeet Community College, Elaine Little Plume
$1250 to Miles Community College, Richard DeShields
$2500 to University of Montana, Jenah Mead
$1250 to Montana State University Billings, Bailee Stenger
The Commission on Community Service is at least 15 people from across Montana who represent a variety of sectors, such as government, public, nonprofit, tribal, and others.
The Commission meets 4 times a year and Commissioners participate in the Governor’s Office of Community Service’s activities which are focused on AmeriCorps service and community volunteerism.
There is an opening for an individual between the ages of 16-25, inclusive, who is a participant or a supervisor of a service program of school aged youth, or of a campus based or national service program.
The Montana Food Pantry Community of Practice is a statewide collaboration led by Montana Campus Network for Civic Engagement (MCNCE) that brings together campus leaders engaged in addressing college hunger. Since 2020, participants have met monthly to share resources and best practices; problem-solve common challenges, exchange innovative program ideas and support one another through peer learning and storytelling. If you’d like to be involved, please click on the link below.
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