Montana 250 Initiatives that need your financial support:

  • Encouraging Student Civic Engagement in Montana

    Amount Requested: $4,500 to fund two programs aimed at 4th-12th grade students:

    1. A Montana History poster contest for students 4-5th grades: $3,000

    2. Three Montana history-themed student research prizes for students 6-12th grade: $1,500

    Project Description:

    In collaboration with National History Day in Montana (NHD MT)—an established academic program serving students 4-12th grades—the MT 250 Commission (MT 250) requests $4,500 to support programs to boost student engagement with Montana history through research, analysis, and presentation at local, state, and national levels.

  • The Montana Tapestry: People and Places from 1776 to Today

    Amount Requested: $7840 to help support interpretive exhibits that boost deep engagement with Montana’s unique past.

    Project Description:

    “The Montana Tapestry: People and Places from 1776 to Today” will include six sets of pop-up banners with content on the people, places, resources, and structures that unite us as Montanans and Americans and give us common purpose as we look ahead to the next 250 years. This traveling interpretive exhibit commemorates the upcoming semiquincentennial, educates the public on lesser-known history, people and places of Montana, and highlights Montana's changing cultural, social and physical landscapes from 1776 to today. Six sets of banners and interpretive resources will travel throughout Montana State Parks visitors centers across each region of the state, delving into our unique past and sparking curiosity to help shape the next 250 years of our state.

  • The Montana Citizenship Challenge

    Coming soon!

  • The Montana 250 Roadway Sign Project

    Amount Requested: $22,000 to support high school CTE (Career and Technical Education) classes involvement in a Burma Shave Sign- inspired project.

    Project Description:

    MT 250 will work with nine exemplary construction-skills high schools, one in each of the MASS (MT Association of School Superintendents) regions, to purchase supplies locally and produce a nine slogan roadway sign sets which school reps will erect working with landowners in their county. Modeled after the successful 1950s Burma Shave signs that used a series of advertising slogans along roadways, the goal is to have at least one Montana 250 slogan erected in each county by the summer of 2025.

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