Ballard Center
BYU Marriott’s Ballard Center for Social Impact is the world’s largest university program focused on social impact.
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Giving Back Through Education
Jill Piacitelli didn't always know she wanted to work in the social impact field. Now she's giving back as she steps into a teaching role at the Ballard Center for Social Impact.
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Making a Real Impact
Students at the Ballard Center for Social Impact at BYU Marriott are continuing to lead the way in the social impact field through the creation of a new student-led association.
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11 TED Talks That Can Change the World
The TEDxBYU forum is known for its inspiring speakers and thought-provoking speeches. For viewers interested in social impact, the following eleven talks address social issues in a novel, hopeful way.
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The Man Behind Neptune
As Marx Acosta-Rubio biked down the streets of Florida, he was shocked by the trash he saw. Garbage lined the beaches, covered the roads, and littered the sidewalks. This would serve as the inspiration for a potentially groundbreaking new product.
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A Semester with Walmart
The summer of 2020 will bring big things for Katelynne Hinckley flying to Walmart's worldwide headquarters in Arkansas. Read more about the process and experiences that landed her a dream internship.
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Ballard Center Announces Name Change
As the calendar recently turned a page to a new year and decade, the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at the BYU Marriott School of Business has something new for 2020.
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Smart Minds in the Same Room
When Isaac Blake served a mission Argentina in 2013, he experienced a vastly different economy and culture from what he was used to in his affluent Boston neighborhood.
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Ballard Center Hosts Ninth Annual Peery Film Festival
Hosted annually by BYU’s Ballard Center, the Peery Film Festival is presented to students to make them aware of a number of current social issues and invite them to consider possible solutions.
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Finding Your Edgar
Llamas, lunchtime, and a boy named Edgar played important roles in making Davis Smith, Cotopaxi's founder, the man he is today. Read more about his address and his challenges at the Changemaker Club's September event.
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Quiet Persistence Pays Off
Kimball Crockett was qualified for the position he applied for, so getting turned down was a surprise. He didn't let that stop him though, and today he's a world traveler.
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From Mix-Up to Memorable
Will Pham never meant to get involved in the Ballard Center. A minor mistake in class schedule put him in the Do Good. Better course--and changed his college career.
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New Ballard Center Club Fills Gap in Social Impact
The Social Impact Professional Association, or SIPA for short, provides students pursuing a career in social impact with career services to help them land their dream job.
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What an Engineer Gained from Doing Good. Better.
I've always had a desire to help those around me, but with such a taxing and time-consuming major, the thought of spending any of my extra hours outside of the library never seemed realistic or beneficial until I got involved at the Ballard Center.
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Myth Busted: Business and Social Good Can Coexist
I am a philosophy major at BYU but an entrepreneur at heart. While in college, I started my career in real-estate investing, learning how to flip houses and lease vacation rentals. It was both exhilarating and exhausting.
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Misan Rewane—2019 Social Innovator of the Year
Change often comes in waves of thought, courage, faith, and determination. As a woman seeking change, Misan Rewane learned to fight the issue of youth unemployment in her home country by creating waves of her own.
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Learning How to Live Like Ally
Just as my life was changed when I was nine years old, I now have the remarkable opportunity to take part in changing others lives who seek to improve the society in which they live.
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Y-Prize Social Innovation Solution Competition—Hear From the Winners
The Y-Prize: Social Innovation Solution competition is an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students at BYU to address a real-life problem that a current business faces by proposing a solution to be implemented by the company.
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Finding My Future
Through my work with the Social Venture Academy, my perspective on social issues has changed, and it has created a pattern of learning and growth within my life.
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