Megan
currently serves as an AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) at the Bethel Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center. Her
primary focus is on the “Partners in
Growth” Program which is designed to help Yukon Kuskokwim Delta region
villages energize and stabilize their local economies with professional
development opportunities and independent job creation. Megan’s work helps to mobilize
resources, transfer professional skills to residents, generate private sector commitment,
and increase the capacity of YK Delta communities to determine locally
appropriate solutions to community challenges.
The
Partners in Growth program is funded by an AN/NHIAC grant and is a multi –
agency collaboration between the University of Alaska, Fairbanks–Kuskokwim
Campus, Bethel Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center (YPCC), Alaska State Council
on the Arts (ASCA), Bethel Community Services Foundation (BCSF), Alaska Small
Business Development Center (SBDC), and six Southwest Alaska villages. The
program offers a series of professional development workshops to participating
communities in small business growth, financial planning, technical and
computer skills training, entrepreneurial skills, grant writing, local manufacturing,
arts marketing and customer development.
Megan is originally from Enfield, Connecticut and received a B.A.
in Sociology and Anthropology from Eastern Connecticut State University.
Well, Megan has played different roles in successfully in her life and that is impressive specially she worked to stabilize their local economies with professional development opportunities and independent job creation. Megan’s work helps to mobilize resources, transfer professional skills to residents and these are few elements sure makes her biography so good.
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