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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How Filming in Vietnam Connected a Grandson to His Grandfather
A grandfather and grandson both spent time in Vietnam, but for very different reasons.
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Social Innovation Projects: Greening Youth
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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Nonprofit Management Student Association: Year in Review
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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New Show “Solution Time” Draws Attention to Social Issues through Comedic Lens
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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Lawble: Helping Make Pro-Bono Legal Assistance Available to All
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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Women Helping Women in Entrepreneurship
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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Social Innovation in a Speedy Way
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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A Career of Inspiring Connections
From her college years on, Rose Palmer has connected people, organizations, and communities leaving them stronger than they were before.
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Saving Mothers and Babies: Social Venture Maternal Health Challenge
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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How to Live a Meaningful Life
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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Doing Good Better with Y-Prize: Problem Mastery
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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Off-Campus Internships: Ecuador and Puerto Rico
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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Ballard Center Advisement Sessions
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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BYU Students Waste No Time Taking out the Trash
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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New BYU Marriott Course Leads the Way in CSR
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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Ballard Center Announces New Club
As of this semester, the Nonprofit Management Student Association club is the newest program addition to the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance.
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A Sight to Behold
A recent entrepreneurial effort made by a group of BYU students may not be giving hearing to the deaf, but for those who face the challenges of limited or no hearing, the feat is a miracle nonetheless.
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BYU Grad Uses Tech to Teach and Tutor Underprivileged Children in Ghana
As the founder of Educell, a nonprofit geared toward helping NGOs in resource-limited areas, Cade Dopp works tirelessly to bring education to those around the world who don't have access to it.
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