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Alumni Spotlight

Creating a Life of Social Innovation

December 10, 2019
When Hank Taylor graduated from BYU in 2013, he felt he had to choose just one focus. But like many other students trying to decide their future career, his interests spanned beyond just his economics major.
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Alumni Spotlight

Sonnet to Stocks

December 04, 2019
What does Shakespeare have in common with impact investing? Some might say there's no connection, but for 2018 BYU English graduate Marianna Giordano that couldn't be further from the truth.
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Alumni Spotlight

Boosted by Immersion

December 18, 2018
While at BYU Marriott, Sydni Dunn immersed herself in countless opportunities. These efforts paid off when she received a job offer from the organization she hoped to work for.
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Student Experiences

Robots: A New Method of Learning

June 07, 2018
EI Robotics, a company started by BYU students, has created an interactive robot to help children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) learn foundational skills.
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Student Experiences

Apps Can’t Empathize; Humans Can’t Scale

May 24, 2018
Nine cars filled with siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins followed Alexandra Bernadotte's vehicle in a caravan as she arrived at Dartmouth as the first college student in her family.
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Student Experiences

TEDxBYU 2018 Videos Now Live

May 24, 2018
Helping underserved kids go to college, medical labs on a microchip, and creating engaging work environments are only a few of the TEDxBYU 2018 presented ideas that teach and inspire.
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Student Spotlight

From Poverty to Privilege: An Adoption Miracle

April 20, 2018
I was left on a doorstep outside an orphanage in Hefei, China. My village was infested with pollution, disease, and overpopulation, so my birth mother left me hoping that someone could provide what she could not.
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Center News

New Resource To Inform Social Impact

March 30, 2018
Ballard Brief, a new online publication from the Ballard Center, provides information and answers for everyone from everyday innovators to professional social entrepreneurs to learn more about issues they are interested in.
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Employee Experiences

Alumni Tips on Doing Good Better

February 22, 2018
Todd Manwaring, director of the Ballard Center—a center dedicated to helping students Do Good Better—gives advice on how to make a real impact with social issues you care about.
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Student Experiences

Student App Creator Helps Ghanaian Teachers

February 20, 2018
When BYU graduate student Cade Dopp learned about an inefficiency in the Ghanaian education system, he decided to use innovation to intervene.
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Student Experiences

Kisoa Farms: Creating Jobs in Madagascar

December 06, 2017
After five missionaries from the Madagascar Antananarivo Mission returned home, they felt compelled to give back to the people they had lived and worked with for two years.
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Student Experiences

A New Do Good. Better FHE

December 01, 2017
Paper, tape, scissors, pipe cleaners, and cookies. These were some of the items used during the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's new family home evening event.
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Student Experiences

Investing in Social Change

November 20, 2017
Regardless of students backgrounds or majors, the Ballard Center's Impact Investing Program teaches them the fundamentals of determining which companies will be financially successful and create real social change.
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Student Experiences

Students Tackle Homelessness

November 13, 2017
One hundred college students, ten days, and one social problem to solve. Students across campus came together to creatively provide a realistic solution for Lava Mae, a nonprofit serving those experiencing homelessness.
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In the News

"Threads of Hope" Wins Changemaker Competition

October 25, 2017
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."
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Center News

Sam Cobbs: Social Innovator of the Year

April 14, 2017
As a homeless college student, Sam Cobbs 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.
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Center News

Solving Problems One 'Stoplight' at a Time

August 03, 2016
Thanks to the Ballard Center, BYU students had the opportunity to utilize their skills in the research and development of a survey that is tackling poverty.
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Employee Spotlight

Liddle Delivers Devotional Address

May 04, 2016
Stephen Liddle, academic director of the Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology and professor of information systems, spoke on learning and agency.
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