A new year presents many exciting prospects and possibilities—a fresh, 365 days lie ahead, and with them come opportunities to get involved and do good in your community.
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If one of your resolutions is to make a difference, the Ballard Center of Economic Self-Reliance can help you reach your goals. Here are five ways students can get involved with social innovation in 2016:
- Do an on-campus internship
Social Innovation Projects is an internship program that allows students to work on projects for top-tier social organizations, like Ashoka and Google Community Leaders. Students from all majors can make a difference right on campus by creating solutions for worldwide problems such as poverty and illiteracy.
- Attend TedxBYU
Learn from dynamic speakers and network with creative social innovators at the next TedxBYU event on 24 March. You just might leave with an idea or two!
- Take a class with the Ballard Center
The Ballard Center boasts exciting class offerings that teach you what it takes to become a changemaker. “Do Good Better” (BUS M 375) helps students from all majors discover ways they can get involved in social innovation.
- Enter the Social Innovation Case Competition
In this two-week competition, students put their skills to the test and help solve a real-time problem for a Ballard Center partner organization. You and your team could walk away with $3,000 in cash!
- Get involved with Y-Prize
Want to make the world better, but missing an idea? If so, the Ballard Center has your back. 2016’s Y-Prize competition introduces two solutions to world problems and asks for you to find a way to make sure the solutions reach actual people in need. You and a team can participate in the Solar Challenge or the Newborn Challenge.
So ring in the New Year right by getting involved with social good at the Ballard Center.
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Writer: Alex Burch