Mentoring

Hopa Mountain helps citizen leaders further develop their skills to deliver strength-based programs, services, and organizational efforts that meet needs expressed in their individual communities.

Hopa Mountain matches resources of all kinds to rural and tribal citizen leaders to help them achieve their goals.

Training

Hopa Mountain works to expand and enhance community-based opportunities for youth and adults. The majority of these efforts are informal (out-of-school) trainings for community leaders, with an emphasis on rural education, program development, non-profit organization, marketing, communication, facilitation, and planning.

An Introduction to Youth-led Service-Learning and Learn and Serve America Sub-Grants (grant deadline June 30) 

Hopa Mountain is pleased to announce the availability of competitive Youth Leaders in Service sub-award grants for community-based nonprofit organizations and rural and tribal schools in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation.  The goal of Youth Leaders in Service is to help launch youth-led, community-based service-learning projects in rural and tribal communities.  These grants are made available through a sub-award from the National Corporation for Community Service's Learn and Serve America program.  For more information, please download the announcement.

For more information about service-learning and sub-grant opportunities though Hopa Mountain, please join us for a webinar in June.

June 2   2 - 3:30 p.m.

June 4   10 - 11:30 a.m.

June 8   2 - 3:30 p.m.

June 10 10 - 11:30 a.m.

June 14 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Registration is not required to participate in the live webinar.  Feel free to call Marissa Spang at (406) 586-2455 or email marissa.spang@hopamountain.org with questions in advance.

At the start of each session, dial 1-866-200-5786 on your phone and enter conference ID # 7759909 and also log into:

 http://connectpro15289562.na5.acrobat.com/servicelearningwebinar1/ 

Imagine Montana 

June 16, 2010     5 - 7 p.m. at the Bozeman Public Library

Together with our partners, the Montana Budget & Policy Center and WEEL, we invite you to participate in a community conversation to share your hopes for Montana and how we get there.  A light dinner will be served as part of this community conversation, which is free-of-charge.  Please RSVP to 586-2455

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2010 Youth Leadership Programs

Junior high and high school students are invited to participate in Hopa Mountain’s youth leadership programs in Bozeman and Livingston. Organized by Hopa Mountain and LINKS for Learning, these teen programs start with weeklong summer camps and continue throughout the school year with weekly meetings, outdoor adventures and community service projects.

The youth participants support local community organizations while preparing to become contributing members of their families, peer groups, and communities.  This year, there is a special emphasis on college access and preparation.  Gallatin County youth meet in Bozeman on Saturdays from 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the Hopa Mountain office, 234 E. Babcock.  Park County youth meet on Wednesdays from 4 - 5:30 p.m. at the Livingston Public Library.  Meetings include planning time for projects, youth mentoring, and time to socialize and build friendships.  Weeklong summer youth leadership camps are offered for Gallatin and Park County teens as well. 

The youth leadership programs are designed to provide opportunities for all youth to gain valuable life skills to use in service to others. They are made possible with support from the O. P. and W.E. Edwards Foundation, the Walter and Lucille Braun Family Charitable Gift Fund, the Beim Foundation, and the Gilhousen Family Foundation. For more information, please contact Jamie Diehl at (406) 586-2455 or jamiekdiehl@gmail.com. Current information can be found on our blog.

Networking

Hopa Mountain facilitates regional networks of rural and tribal citizen leaders along with forums to exchange ideas, collaborate on projects and offer one another support.

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