Red Cross Month Winners Choose to Give Rather than Receive

UM-W Campus Corps members posing at the Community Garden's annual Garden Jubilee with the supplies that they donated in lieu of throwing themselves a celebratory party to reward them for winning the Red Cross Month competition.

During the Month of March, the Montana Campus Corps program launched a statewide campus competition as part of our Red Cross Month initiative. The Campus Corps team at UM-Western wowed us all with the impressive number of points they collectively accumulated by hosting CPR trainings, blood drives, and distributing preparedness bags to the local community. The MTCC Network Office offered to fund a celebratory party for their team as their prize for winning the competition. However, the UM-W team instead requested to use their prize money to support a noble cause in their community. Specifically, they used their winnings to purchase garden tools and supplies for the UM-W Campus Community Garden: an on-campus garden that serves both as an educational resources as well as a source of  local and sustainable food to the Dillon community. The organization was thrilled to receive some much needed gardening materials for the upcoming gardening season and was very grateful to the Campus Corps team for their generosity.  Furthermore, the garden receives ongoing support from several Campus Corps members who often find time to volunteer at the site. The donated supplies were presented at the Community Garden's annual Garden Jubilee event! Congratulations to the members of UM-W - you certainly illustrate what it means to serve others and to put the needs of your community before your own!

The crew that delivered 300+ bags between the two of them!