Announcements

Eva Witesman, PhD, director of the Ballard Center for Social Impact at BYU Marriott, joins the followHIM podcast to explore how faith shapes meaningful social impact. Drawing on Doctrine and Covenants 81–88, Witesman shares insights on ministering, strengthening communities, and creating lasting change by serving individuals and addressing their needs.

More than 600 BYU students turned a few minutes between classes into meaningful community service, creating 2,100+ seed balls to support local community gardens and raise awareness about food insecurity. Through this hands-on project, the Ballard Center and Y-Serve showed how small acts of service can bring light, connection, and hope to a community.

Winners

What's the big idea? Proposing everything from art therapy to more people of color in publishing, these students won the 2022 Changemaker Writing Competition by addressing a social issue and sharing how they intend to address it.

The 2022 Social Innovator of the Year came from poverty in India to create a business that makes it easier for farmers, miners and recyclers to become "bankable."

The Deseret News covered BYU students helping an innovative micro-loan company make college affordable for impoverished students around the world.