Top Ten Family Volunteer Tips
- Help build affordable housing for those in need
- Volunteer at a local pet shelter
- Surf the net for other opportunities
- 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
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Fuel for Dreams
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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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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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 >
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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 >
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Band of Brothers
by Jill Adair
Many families are making sacrifices to have family members serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. But for the Rogers family from the small town of Eagar in eastern Arizona, the sacrifice is three-fold. Read more >
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Little Hats, Big Hearts
by Meagan Brady
When her husband’s job called for a temporary move to Singapore, Sandy Simiskey knew exactly how she would pass the time. “I knew that I would need something to keep me busy during those two months,” she explains, “so I brought a couple of crochet hooks and a bit of yarn with me. Little did I know just how busy I would be crocheting and knitting preemie hats and encouraging nice ladies to do the same.” Read more >
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Band of Brothers
by Jill B. Adair
Many families are making sacrifices to have family members serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. But for the Rogers family from the small town of Eagar in eastern Arizona, the sacrifice is three-fold. Read more >
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Massachusetts Gets Prepared
Imagine how easy it would be to prepare for an emergency if all the supplies and information you needed for your seventy-two hour kits were delivered right to your doorstep. All you would have to do is carry the bag downstairs to your basement—no shopping required. Read more >
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Protective Fences
“It all started when we went with the institute class just to do a service project,” says Linda Camilleri. Linda and her husband Danny were serving a mission in South Africa when they went with the institute to help and serve children in a local orphanage by reading to them and playing with them. “When we were there the washing machine broke and so we helped [Nellie] wash clothes for five hours.” Read more >
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Reservations Bound
On a Navajo reservation in the Northeast corner of Arizona, 2,000 children are walking around with bright, new knit hats. Read more >
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School Supplies and a Fireside
Jenny Phillips, an LDS recording artist, has toured Australia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. However, her tour this July in Western Samoa will be different than any other international tour she has done. With the help of the members of her choir, her son, and his kindergarten classmates, Jenny will bring needed school supplies to the schools of Western Samoa. Read more >
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Devils in Disguise
by Jordan Marie Williams
In April 2006, the New Foundation rehabilitation center in Scottsdale, Arizona, was renovated by none other than a bunch of devils—Sun Devils, that is, from Arizona State University. Read more >
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Sparkly PALS Shine
by Jordan Marie Williams
Imagine a group of forty dancers, ranging in ages from three to adult, performing for thousands, clad in sparkly red jackets. This picture may not sound too unique, until you realize there is something very special about the dancers in the Sparkly PALS dance troupe: they all have Down’s Syndrome. Read more >
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Chuck’s Hats for Chemo
by Jordan Marie Williams
In 1999, Ginny Hibbard, a woman from California, met some Church members and mentioned that her husband, Chuck, had recently passed away from cancer. To keep him comfortable during his chemotherapy treatments, Ginny knitted him a warm hat. She knew that these LDS women enjoyed crocheting and knitting, so she passed along the idea. Soon, women throughout the Northwest were making and donating hats to cancer patients. Soon, women throughout the Northwest were making and donating hats to cancer patients, and the project kept spreading. Read more >
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The Starfish Difference
by Jordan Marie Williams
Many know of the story about a boy who throws starfishes back into the ocean in order to save their lives. A man says to him, "But, young man, don’t you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it. You can’t possibly make a difference." The young man listened politely, then bent down, picked up another starfish, threw it into the sea and said, "I made a difference for that one." Read more >
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Love Thy Neighbor
by Jamie Lawson
In the days following the Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of evacuees were flown to Utah’s Camp Williams for temporary housing, "It kept nagging at me," says Claire Willmore. "We can’t help everyone, but as a neighborhood we could help one family." So she asked neighbor Dave Radmall, landlord of an unoccupied rental house, if there was any way a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina could move in. Read more >
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Retreat For Girls
by Jordan Marie Williams
Friends Katie Smith, Marisa Brown, and Trudy Barrett all attended and served as counselors at BYU’s Academy for Girls, a program for Beehives, until it was discontinued in 1999. While working with young women in their wards, they recognized that there was a need for a similar program. After finding nothing catering toward the needs of twelve- to fourteen-year-old girls, the trio decided to pool their own money and labor to start a program of their own. Read more >
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Across Continents
Most hear the name Richard Paul Evans and immediately think of a touching Christmas story that swept the world. But few know the buildings that have come in the decade since. Read more >
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Adopting an Attitude of Unconditional Love
by Jordan Marie Williams
Latter-day Saint families are often known for their large rosters, but the Wilson family of Tucson, Arizona could possibly take the cake. In 1985 Karen Wilson became a nurse and started working with disabled children. Since then, she and her husband Larry have become foster parents of twenty-seven handicapped children (in addition to their three biological children), eventually adopting them over the years. Currently, twenty people live in the Wilson’s three-bedroom home. Read more >
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