Monday, July 9, 2012

UM-W Enters National AmeriCorps Photo Contest

Each year AmeriCorps members throughout the country are challenge to submit a photo that highlights the impactful ways in which they served their local communities over the course of the year. Photos are evaluated based on certain criteria including overall impact, creativity, composition or technical quality, memorable content and delivery, and expression of this year's theme "AmeriCorps Works".


Cheyanne, our leader at UM-Western took advantage of this opportunity to highlight some of the successes that her outstanding Campus Corps team experienced over the past school year. We have yet to learn which photos were selected to win the contest; but, wether or not they walk away with an award, these photos are well worth sharing with the Montana AmeriCorps community. Check them out!

"AmeriCorps members join together for 9/11 National Service and Remembrance day to further build capacity of the recycling programs. The members hosted a talk on "Why recycle Plastic" facilitated through the local Forest Service Green Team. The finale project of the week, connected local volunteers and college students for a city-limits wide curbside plastic pick-up. The first time ever our community produced several bales of plastic to recycle amounting to over 1000 pounds collected in one day. These efforts directly impacted our community and provided the statistics that generated enough recycled plastic for a collection bin. We now recycle glass, mixed paper, aluminum & steel, cardboard and PLASTIC. The committee even held a electronic waste recycling weekend. Environmental stewards at their best coming together to make the world we live in a greener, one step at a time."





"Local Campus Corps team impacts their community through a series of service projects. Team members geared up to delivery 1000 disaster preparedness bags to their community during March’s American Red Cross month in alignment with AmeriCorps Works week. Volunteers including AmeriCorps members, VISTA members, and local community members persevered through a late March snow storm that accumulated to over 6 inches of snow while walking the streets of their community delivering bags door to door educating citizens on the importance of being prepared for disasters that could strike at any given time. The team won a state wide competition and received a reward to have a celebration, instead of using funds for their achievements the members chose to turn the money around into a donation for the local campus community garden of which a Food Corps VISTA had diligently worked over her term of service to build the capacity of the garden forming partnerships with local schools and cafeterias. The donation was enough to purchase needed materials for summer education programs at the garden."

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