Ballard Center News 

William Knowles couldn’t help but think of his own mother as he captured the story of Nepalese women struggling to provide for their families in his film "Threads of Hope".

As part of a new series, the Ballard Center is giving students the opportunity to ask alumni questions and career advice. This piece features Jeff Roberts of Self-Reliance Services/PEF.

How do I find purpose? How do we cure cancer? How can I best learn from my mistakes? These were just a few of the hard questions addressed at TEDxBYU 2017.

Michael Thompson, Shane Allred, and others were recognized at the annual Marriott School Awards Luncheon for their contributions to the university and their respective fields.

As a homeless college student, Sam Cobb was humiliated while he stood in line to get food stamps. Welfare services said he would need to drop out of college if he wanted their aid, but he knew that college was his only chance at escaping poverty.

BYU professor Linda Reynolds sees the skills she teaches as more than a mixture of aesthetics, images, symbols, and words–her design classes teach students to do good better.

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.

An SIP team from the Ballard Center is spreading the word about a little animal doing a huge amount of good.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.  

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.

Ryan Bastian works with the Ballard Center to fulfill his life calling of improving the world through social innovation.

The Best Idea Competition recently allowed students a chance to share their ideas for improving the world through social innovation.

Ballard students, as part of the SIP, were highlighted in the Daily Herald for training seniors to use computers and the Internet.

W. Gibb Dyer, Ballard Center academic director, explains the connection between strong families and the economy.

Around the world, young social entrepreneurs are leading the way, rewriting the rules, and changing the world. It pays to do good.

It’s not always easy to know if a charity is effectively using its funds. Enter the students of the Grantwell program.