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BYU Marriott’s Ballard Center for Social Impact is the world’s largest university program focused on social impact.
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Student Experiences

Learning How to Live Like Ally

August 28, 2019
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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Student Experiences

Y-Prize Social Innovation Solution Competition—Hear From the Winners

August 27, 2019
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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Student Experiences

Finding My Future

August 27, 2019
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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Alumni Spotlight

How Filming in Vietnam Connected a Grandson to His Grandfather

August 09, 2019
A grandfather and grandson both spent time in Vietnam, but for very different reasons.
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Student Experiences

Social Innovation Projects: Greening Youth

August 08, 2019
Social Innovation Projects (SIP) is an on-campus internship program that gives students an opportunity to make a real-life impact in their local communities while receiving teamwork experience. Four students—Emily Meadows, an environmental science major from Alpine, Utah; Brad Allison, a chemical engineering major from Mesa, Arizona; Becky Fuller, a chemical engineering major from Denver; and Nathan Guzman, an economics major from Washington, DC—signed up for SIP and were paired together on a team during Fall 2018 semester. Their team was given the project of working on carbon credits accountability with Greening Youth, a brand-new SIP class partner.
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Student Experiences

Nonprofit Management Student Association: Year in Review

August 07, 2019
The Nonprofit Management Student Association (NMSA) was incorporated into the Ballard Center during the 2018-2019 academic year. The NMSA has grown from its infancy in 2009 to a total of seventeen board members and seventy-eight student members.
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Employee Spotlight

New Show “Solution Time” Draws Attention to Social Issues through Comedic Lens

August 05, 2019
For Alicia Gettys, the endless cycle of cynical and disheartening news sparked an interest in creating a new kind of news that shares stories of hope and optimism, with a little help from a former NFL star.
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Alumni Spotlight

Lawble: Helping Make Pro-Bono Legal Assistance Available to All

August 01, 2019
Our end goal is to create a single landing page for all of the nation's free legal services so we can provide justice for all.
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Student Experiences

Women Helping Women in Entrepreneurship

July 10, 2019
The Ballard Center's Social Venture Academy works to solve social issues across the globe, and recent participants seem to be setting a new trend in social entrepreneurship women helping women.
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Student Experiences

Social Innovation in a Speedy Way

April 24, 2019
While the hustle and bustle of big cities in America are characterized by taxis and Uber and Lyft vehicles, Madagascar's ubiquitous mode of travel looks very different.
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Alumni Spotlight

A Career of Inspiring Connections

February 14, 2019
From her college years on, Rose Palmer has connected people, organizations, and communities leaving them stronger than they were before.
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Student Experiences

Saving Mothers and Babies: Social Venture Maternal Health Challenge

January 31, 2019
In February 2018, the World Health Organization reported that more than 800 women die worldwide every day due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
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Student Experiences

How to Live a Meaningful Life

January 30, 2019
Have you wondered what your life is going to be like after college graduation? Do you dream about making a difference with your career, yet worry that it won't be financially viable?
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Student Experiences

Doing Good Better with Y-Prize: Problem Mastery

January 29, 2019
Madeline Steele, a public health major, stumbled upon the one and only social innovation class at offered at BYU-Idaho. Intrigued by the ad for the class that promised she could change the world, Steele enrolled in the class and loved what she learned.
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Student Experiences

Off-Campus Internships: Ecuador and Puerto Rico

January 28, 2019
To further the Ballard Center's mission of searching for pattern-breaking social innovations around the world, students receive grants to make off-campus internships possible.
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Student Experiences

Ballard Center Advisement Sessions

January 11, 2019
Learn more about Ballard Center advisement. These one-on-one information sessions help students understand how their life goals align with what the Ballard Center has to offer.
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Student Experiences

BYU Students Waste No Time Taking out the Trash

October 30, 2018
Like many BYU students, Matthew Liddle wanted to leave his mark on the world. But if you were to ask him, he would actually say that he wanted to remove his mark.
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Student Experiences

New BYU Marriott Course Leads the Way in CSR

October 24, 2018
With many businesses discovering the need for social impact programs, BYU Marriott is leading the way through a new course on corporate social responsibility.
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