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Top Ten Family Volunteer Tips
  • Beautify a local park
  • Spend quality time with the elderly
  • Look in your attic or basement for old fans and AC units to donate
  • Clean out your closets and donate your clothing
  • Volunteer to help out at a local race
  • Host a bake sale and donate proceeds to charity
  • Donate cleaning supplies to a homeless shelter
  • Help build affordable housing for those in need
  • Volunteer at a local pet shelter
  • Surf the net for other opportunities

Making a Difference: Modesty Gives Back

by Michelle Garrett
Helping displaced women prepare for a better life. Read more >


Making a Difference: Hope in a Bag

by Lacey Kupfer Wulf
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Serving with Smiles

by Shannon Johnson
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An Iron Rod

by Ashton Kelley
Using a hot rod to share the gospel—Perth, Australia Read more >


HEARTS for the Holidays

by Shannon Johnson
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Fuel for Dreams

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What all started as Jacob Jones and Allison Frankman's dream of making the world a better place has come to fruition with the help of fellow Brigham Young University chemical engineering students and professors. Read more >


Baskets of Love

by Sunny McClellan Morton
When DeAnn Draper moved into her new Chardon, Ohio, home, she didn't know her neighbors would send her packing--Easter baskets, that is. Read more >


BYU Management Society

by LDS Living Staff Writer
In an ever increasingly materialistic world, where ethics and morals often take a backseat to profit, the BYU Management Society provides a unique opportunity for business leaders to support one another in retaining their principles. Read more >


Interfaith Quilting Bee

by Kate Ensign-Lewis
Imagine a stake center chapel with its pews overlaid with calico and flannel pattered quilts; a cultural hall set up with fifteen quilting frames; and hundreds of women from different faiths smiling and working with the hope of making a better life for struggling families. Read more >


Neighborhood Food Drive

by Molly Smith
Every year, neighbors spend so much time and money making holiday goodies for each other. While these acts of goodwill are always appreciated, I thought perhaps we could do something better with all of that time and money. Instead of giving gifts to each other, people in our neighborhood now combine efforts to help those who are less fortunate than we are. Read more >


Circle of Love

by Janet Peterson
"Santa's coming! Santa's coming!" The good news quickly spreads from one eager young child to another at the Shungopavi Community Center in northern Arizona. The children know that Santa has something special for each of them and that the afternoon will be filled with singing, games, Christmas treats, and a chance to talk to Santa himself. Read more >


Staying Connected

by April E. Osborn
Every week hundreds of young men and women enter the MTC in preparation to serve full-time missions. Read more >


Discovering Your Family Tree

by April E. Osborn
Kellianne may have guessed that her Laurel project would become a family heirloom, but she never would have guessed that it would become a family business. Read more >


Scouting for Literature

by Jill B. Adair
Fourteen-year-old Michael Ward found out that one person really can make a difference to others in need after he dedicated his Eagle Scout project to collecting books to restock a Katrina-ravaged elementary school library in Gulfport, Mississippi. Read more >


A Powerful Playground

by LDS Living Magazine, Sep/Oct Issue
In April, a team of Brigham Young University student engineers unveiled a merry-go-round capable of turning children's play into electricity. Read more >


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