Please visit our Connect page to see a full calendar of events.
Please reach out to us at socialimpact@uvu.edu with any questions.
Date: September / January
Location: Virtual (CSI Instagram: @uvusocialimpact
Contact:socialimpact@uvu.edu
Description: A week long event that educates campus about the Six Pathways of Social Impact and the Center for Social Impact through a series of challenges, giveaways, activities, and social media engagements
Date & Time: September / January
Location: SC 105
Description: Come tour the Center for Social Impact, meeting Impact Fellows, and find ways to get involved! Refreshments provided!
Date: October
Location: www.clotheslineproject.info and UVU Ballroom
Description:
The Clothesline Project is a visual display of domestic violence statistics that often go ignored. Each shirt is made by a survivor or by someone who has lost a loved one to violence. The color of each shirt represents a different type of violence.
We invite you to engage with us on the important issue of domestic violence in our community by visiting our online gallery at www.clotheslineproject.info.
Date: December
Description:
The UVU Map the System Challenge involves choosing a social issue, researching it through a systems thinking lens, visually mapping out the systems that contribute to the problem, and presenting the visuals and findings via video presentation.
For this culminating challenge event, teams will be judged based on their research, visuals, and video. The winning team will move on to the Oxford University global competition, and receive one-on-one mentorship from the Center for Social Impact throughout spring semester.
Date: April 6, 2023
Time: 6PM
Location: Center Stage
Contact:socialimpact@uvu.edu
Description: Join us for the competition! Design for Impact (DFI) is an equity-centered design thinking workshop series followed by a final competition where the winning team receives a cash prize to help them continue the development of their social problem intervention.
Date: TBD
Description: The Hunger Gap is a ticketed fundraiser that includes bringing together local food trucks, restaurants, chefs, cooks, or caterers to provide a sample of diverse dishes to students. Information about food disparity is presented and distributed. It also includes a service project option along with a guide for action steps in disrupting systems that lead to inequitable healthy food distribution. This event is overseen by the Direct Service and Philanthropy Fellows.
Date: April 20, 2023
Location: Ballroom Commons
Time: 11AM-1PM
Description: This exhibit will show the many projects, programs, and events that come out of the Center for Social Impact. It will include displays highlighting the Impact Fellows; service learning projects; Alternative Breaks; Design for Impact competition; and the Map the System competition.
