AmeriCorps VISTA member serves Upward Bound
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PABLO – Alexander Herlich will be serving with Salish Kootenai College Upward Bound in Pablo, one of 13 candidates who took the oath of service to become AmeriCorps VISTA members with the Montana Campus Compact on Jan. 24 in a special ceremony conducted by Montana Gov. Steve Bullock in Helena.
During the next year, these MTCC VISTAs will work with college and university campus partners in communities across Montana and Wyoming to further antipoverty efforts in the areas of education and veteran/military family support.
“MTCC AmeriCorps VISTA members commit a year of their lives to using higher education resources to fight poverty,” said Brian Christianson, MTCC program manager.
In addition to working with low-income populations, VISTAs take a vow of poverty and are prohibited from holding employment outside their service. At the end of their one-year term, they receive a federal education award that can be used to pay back student loans or further their education.
“The impact VISTA members make on the communities they serve is significant,” Christianson said. “In the past year, MTCC VISTAs generated $372,311 in cash and in-kind donations for projects addressing poverty problems in Montana...”
For more information, call MTCC VISTA Program Manager Brian Christianson at (406) 243-5427 or email christianson@mtcompact.org.
