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LIFTT is seeking a Finance/HR Manager!
Join our dynamic team! LIFTT current has an opening in our Billings Montana office for a Finance & Human Resources Manager As a member of the LIFTT Administrative Team, the FHRM primarily supports the following areas: financial, human resources, digital, and...
Montana’s Disability History Demands your Attention
Equally Different, Unequally Remembered Let’s be honest. Disability is everywhere, yet historically, it’s been almost nowhere. Not in the textbooks, not in the museum wings, not in the official timelines of “how we got here.” Until now. From March to December 2025,...
Outnumbered: an interactive art protest to save Section 504!
What do 5,401 pencils and a civil rights law passed in 1973 have in common? They're both being slowly ground down in Montana. Disability Rights Montana has launched a bold, creative protest in response to Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s participation in a...
Empty Shelves, Louder Voices
What Happens When Food Security Becomes a Footnote? Let’s name the silence. Montana’s food banks are hurting. Not metaphorically. Not bureaucratically. But tangibly — like empty shelves where there used to be fresh produce, like waiting rooms that once had warmth and...
Thank you for supporting LIFTT in March!
Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT) would like to thank all of the people who showed up and donated at the two fundraising events we held during March. Your generosity made the Cheesecake Luncheon in Glendive and the Pizza Ranch Night in Billings...
No More Exceptions: Rethinking Work, Worth, and Wages
Editor's Note: Last Month, We published a post explaining some basics about the subminimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, how and why it came into being and remains in force, subjecting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of disabled...
Food as Medicine
A Delicious Path to Better Health! What if the secret to feeling better, managing health conditions, and boosting energy wasn’t hiding in a pill bottle — but in the produce aisle? At LIFTT, we believe food is medicine, and we’re putting that belief into action with an...
Holly Hanson: From Facilitator to Leader
] ] At LIFTT, we believe in growth, empowerment, and supporting our own as they reach new heights in their careers. This spring, we’re thrilled to celebrate one of our own, Holly Hanson, as she embarks on an exciting new journey — training to become our PCA Program...
Statement on Montana Fair Housing’s loss of HUD Funding
Editor's Note: Recently, it was announced that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), at the behest of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated a $425,000 grant that provided much of the funding to Montana Fair Housing, a statewide...
WHC Exhibits to focus on Disability History, Art
Two exhibits, one on the history of people with disabilities in Montana and another featuring works of art produced by disabled artists, will open for public viewing at the Western Heritage Center in downtown Billings beginning on Wednesday, March 26. The...
