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Metro

Utah non-profit weaves hope through thoughtful care kits

Lily Cook
By Lily Cook
March 25, 2025 10:47 AM
A non-profit organization in Utah is doing more than just knitting yarn — it’s weaving hope, care and love into the lives of those who need it most.
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Women of Color Club hosts Zumba class to raise money for Healing Hands for Haiti

By Sydnee Van Woerkom
February 27, 2025 11:42 AM
The BYU Women of Color Club hosted a Zumba class to raise money for Healing Hands for Haiti, a Salt Lake-based charity, during BYU’s Care Week.
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Metro

Orem restaurant gives a second chance to those in need

Emily May
By Emily May
January 24, 2025 04:10 PM
The TRUreligion Pancake and Steakhouse in Orem is more than just a restaurant — it’s a charity.
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Metro

How Miss D.C. unites her community in a politically divisive time and place

Emily May
By Emily May
December 10, 2024 09:06 PM
The Miss America pageant competition is more than just sashes and tiaras.
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Campus

BYU Y-Serve program gives glasses to charity

Britney Heimuli
By Britney Heimuli
December 01, 2024 10:28 AM
BYU’s Y-Serve office hosted a service activity partnered with Friends for Sight, where volunteers popped lenses out of donated glasses and sorted the frames in order to send them across the world to those in need.
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Metro

Big Jack Gives Back to Alpine School District

By Mckenna Jensen
October 17, 2024 06:36 PM
Traverse Mountain Outlets is spreading fall cheer and supporting local schools with their Big Jack Gives Back charity event. Families gathered for a day filled with games, laughter and community spirit.
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Campus

Elder Takashi Wada invites students to seek charity, Christlike attributes

By Nora Shin
October 17, 2024 05:36 PM
Elder Takashi Wada of the Seventy invited the campus community to learn from Book of Mormon prophets, learn of Christ and develop Christlike charity at the BYU devotional on Oct. 15.
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Local

Participants run for charity during Utah Valley Marathon

Emily May
By Emily May
June 01, 2024 12:00 AM
The Utah Valley Marathon invited thousands of runners to run various distances throughout Utah Valley on Saturday, June 1.
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Campus

Eye on the Y: BYUSA clubs offer distinct opportunities, BYU alumni encourage students to give back, BYU Law hosts conferences

Jaecie Stilovich
By Jaecie Stilovich
March 22, 2024 12:00 AM
BYUSA clubs offer distinct opportunities
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Video of the Day

Video of the Day: Man conquers Mt. Kilimanjaro backwards to raise money for charity

Jaecie Stilovich
By Jaecie Stilovich
February 28, 2024 12:00 AM
Ben Stewart became the first person to hike up and down Kilimanjaro in Tanzania walking only backward. Stewart touched the Mweka gate sign on Feb. 14, marking an end of his eight-day journey. Stewart’s trek raised money for the British Heart Foundation, honoring his grandpa who had died of a heart attack.
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Food

Provo food bank meets rising food needs

By Bryan Barba Salazar
February 28, 2024 12:00 AM
Food insecurity has increased among Utah residents as grocery and rent prices rise.
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Devotionals and Forums

Elder Gong invites students to write their own 'best story' in the Savior

By Wanzhe Li
April 11, 2023 12:00 AM
Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve invited students to write their own best story in Jesus Christ with the help of the scriptures, temple covenants, church leaders and the Holy Ghost in his devotional address on April 11.
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Video of the Day

Video of the Day: 'Pro-Life Spiderman' climbs 40 story building

By Derek VanBuskirk
February 08, 2023 12:00 AM
(prolife.spiderman via Instagram, KPHO, KTVK, @rdavisfox10, and @GriseldaZetino via Twitter)
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Campus Events

BYU students donate hair for 'Share Your Hair' charity

By Robyn Morris Christensen
November 11, 2022 12:00 AM
Students and hair stylists collaborated for a two-day hair donation event in the Wilkinson Student Center on Nov. 9 and 10.
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Business

Volunteers help the 'United Way' at annual Day of Caring

By Natalie Baugh
September 12, 2019 12:00 AM
Over 2000 volunteers participated in more than 40 local projects as a part of the United Way Day of Caring on Thursday, Sept. 12, according to a press release from United Way of Utah County.
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Nation

Charity masked web of fraudulent college donations, feds say

By Associated Press
March 14, 2019 12:00 AM
William 'Rick' Singer, front, founder of the Edge College & Career Network, exits federal court in Boston on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, after he pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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World

Thing you should know today: 3/14/19

By Lauren Lethbridge
March 14, 2019 12:00 AM
Colorado’s ‘bomb cyclone’ storm barrels toward Midwest
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Metro

UP house charity event

By Universe Contributor
December 06, 2018 12:00 AM
Lynette and Clinton Hamblin live in the official Disney UP house in Herriman and have found a way to use it to raise money for charity each holiday season.
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