Ballard Center News
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Student Team Creates Safe Driving App
Friday Mar 31 2017
A realization prompted four entrepreneurship majors to create Kudoz, an app similar to Pocket Points that incentivizes phone users to keep their phones locked while driving.
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Promoting Life-Saving Rats
Tuesday Mar 28 2017
An SIP team from the Ballard Center is spreading the word about a little animal doing a huge amount of good.
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Student Invests in Home Country
Tuesday Mar 28 2017
Stephane Akoki grew up in the Ivory Coast in West Africa, experiencing the travesty of insufficient opportunity. Now, he's using the opportunities given him at BYU to empower Ivorian entrepreneurs.
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Y-Prize Winners Help Cambodian Infants
Tuesday Jan 24 2017
The project—to market infant ventilators for hospitals in developing countries—hit close to home for members of the winning team and is moving in its goal to save lives.
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Lost Boys of Sudan Visit BYU
Thursday Oct 27 2016
In conjunction with the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's Peery Film Festival, the BYU Health Science Department was honored to host three Sudanese refugees, at the film showing of "Lost Boys of Sudan."
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Changemaker Film Competition Shares Solutions
Wednesday Oct 26 2016
BYU alumna Emily Brand won the Ballard Center's first Changemaker Film Competition for her short documentary depicting one social innovator's work to combat hunger.
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Top Marriott School Stories of 2015
Thursday Dec 31 2015
The Marriott School had an amazing 2015. Here's a list of some of our top stories of the year featuring our outstanding students, faculty and alumni.
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Ballard Alum Brings Education to Jails
Thursday Sep 24 2015
As an undergraduate student in the Ballard Center’s Social Venture Competition, Brian Hill learned what it takes to be a social innovator. Now he runs a successful social enterprise, Edovo, which provides inmates with access to meaningful education that can potentially rehabilitate and reduce recidivism.
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Ballard Center Launches New CSR-Focused Internships
Thursday Feb 12 2015
Thanks in part to the efforts of Brigham Young University students, diamond materials are on their way to becoming the corporate social responsibility world’s best friend.
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In the Atrium with Ryan Bastian
Monday Jan 12 2015
Ryan Bastian works with the Ballard Center to fulfill his life calling of improving the world through social innovation.
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Showcasing Creativity at Best Idea Competition
Thursday Jan 08 2015
The Best Idea Competition recently allowed students a chance to share their ideas for improving the world through social innovation.
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Provo City Housing Authority and Google Fiber Partner to Educate Seniors
Friday Dec 12 2014
Ballard students, as part of the SIP, were highlighted in the Daily Herald for training seniors to use computers and the Internet.
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Family Matters: Why Strong Families Make Strong Economies
Friday Nov 14 2014
W. Gibb Dyer, Ballard Center academic director, explains the connection between strong families and the economy.
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Comedy Night Inspires Students to ‘Do Good. Better'
Friday Nov 14 2014
The Ballard Center recently hosted an event featuring Humor U, Studio C, ImprovBroadway and ComedySportz.
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Socially Minded, Profit-Driven
Friday Oct 24 2014
Around the world, young social entrepreneurs are leading the way, rewriting the rules, and changing the world. It pays to do good.
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Grantwell Program Shares Nonprofit Savvy
Friday Oct 24 2014
It’s not always easy to know if a charity is effectively using its funds. Enter the students of the Grantwell program.
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Meet the Piano-Playing Google Guru
Tuesday Aug 05 2014
It’s not often that a piano-playing gig leads to landing your dream job at Google. That’s the way it worked out for Trevor Dixon, however, when he was asked by the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance to play jazz piano at a dinner for The New York Times journalist David Bornstein.
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Ballard Center Alum Joins Walmart to Create Change
Tuesday Jul 01 2014
When Jackie Saumweber started her MPA degree at Brigham Young University, she wasn’t sure where she wanted it to take her. Over time and after a detour through the Ballard Center, she found a niche that united her passions and skills — corporate social responsibility.
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New Ventures in Uganda for Y-Prize Winners
Monday Jun 02 2014
Across Uganda, children commonly suffer from malnutrition, anemia and developmental disabilities — the effects of parasitic worms. The parasites that cause schistosomiasis can be eliminated by an inexpensive pill, but there is no established way to distribute the medicine to all those who need it.
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2014 TEDxBYU Videos Available Online
Tuesday May 06 2014
Be inspired by talks from this year’s TEDxBYU Conference.