UM-Western Wins Red Cross Month Competition by a Long Shot!

Congratulations to our Red Cross Month Champions, the Campus Corps team serving at UM-Western, who succeeded in accumulating an astounding 1,076 points during the month of March! What an achievement!  Under the leadership of Corps Leader, Cheyanne Marcy, members worked diligently going door to door to deliver 1000 preparedness bags throughout the community of Dillon, MT and in doing so made their local neighborhoods far more equipped to effectively deal with a potential disaster. The group also hosted a blood drive on their campus. The UM-W Campus Corps team will be planning a celebration in honor of their win, which will be hosted by the Campus Corps Network Office. Excellent job UM-W; your victory was certainly well deserved!!


See how other campuses did in the competition. Final results below:


1.) UM-Western: 1,076
2.) MSU-Northern: 838
3.) M-Tech: 522
4.) MSU-GF: 505
5.) FVCC: 439
6.) MSU-Bozeman: 313
7.) Fort Peck Community College: 264
8.) Dawson Community College: 250
9.) Carroll College: 200
10.) UM: 127
11.) MSU-Billings: 109
12.) Salish Kootenai College: 100
13.) Aaniiih Nakoda College: 73
14.) Stone Child College: 53


Congratulations to all of our participating campuses! We were incredibly impressed with your scores overall and more so by the tremendous impact that your service had on local communities throughout the state! All together we delivered a grand total of 5,287 preparedness bags - an incredible accomplishment on all parts! Thanks to everyone who participated in this initiative; it is because of  your hard work and dedication that Red Cross Month has been such an overwhelming success!!

I also want to honor the competition's "Honorary Participant", Jill Washburn. Jill ALONE succeeded in distributing 1,100 preparedness bags to the communities of the Eastern Montana including the Northern Cheyanne Reservation, the community of Round Up, and Carbon County. Jill certainly deserves recognition for this astounding achievement as well as for the time and effort she put in to coordinating this statewide initiative with all of our participating campuses. We could not have it without her. Thanks again Jill!