Mike chats with Executive Director Shauna K. Brown and Tutor Vickie Venne. Project Read changes lives through literacy and empowers individuals, strengthens families, builds communities, and creates new cycles of intergenerational literacy. We believe that every person has the right to the options and opportunities that literacy provides. When literacy is achieved, doors are opened, opportunities gained, and lives are changed. We provide individual tutoring and small group instruction to help individuals improve their ability to read, write, compute, and use technology sufficiently to meet personal goals, function well in society, and become more productive citizens.

www.ProjectReadUtah.org

Mike chats with Founder & President Kseniya Kniazeva. A 501(c)3 registered nonprofit, the Nomad Alliance is a group of concerned citizens working together with private and public partners to end homelessness and proffer hope, by providing warmth, nourishment, shelter, employment, healing, legal aid, connection and advocacy to the chronically unsheltered (nomad) population. We are a one-stop mobile resource for the chronically unsheltered in Salt Lake County. Our bi-monthly and monthly supply drives offer everything from clothing, blankets, tents, hygiene items and hot, home-cooked meals to haircuts, hot showers, legal and online support.

www.NomadAlliance.org

Mike chats with Volunteer Kate Hancock. The 2024 Halloween Spook-tacular fundraiser is Saturday October 19th at Sweet Hazel Restaurant in Midvale. Ritzy Rescue Ranch is a 501(c)(3) organization located in Tooele, Utah. We are dedicated to our mission of providing animals with a second chance for a quality life and inspiring compassion for all beings. We do this by providing a safe, loving home to abused, neglected, and unwanted animals.

www.RitzyRescueRanch.org

Mike chats with Program Development Director Abby Warr & Community Outreach Coordinator Kaylee Hepburn. The People Helping People Fall Single Mothers Seminar & Job Fair is Tuesday, October 8th at the South Salt Lake Community Center. People Helping People, Inc (PHP) is a local grassroots 501c3 non-profit Employment Program dedicated to reducing the number of children living in poverty be helping low-income women, primarily single moms, reach an adequate income through successful employment. PHP helps families break the cycle of poverty by teaching low-income women how to reach their full potential in the workplace.

www.phputah.org

Mike chats with Founder & Director Derryl Yeager. Crowd favorite TRILLER is being performed at The Egyptian Theatre in Park City from 10/2-10/13, at The Grand Theatre in SLC 10/14-10/26, and at Tuacahn Amphitheatre in Ivins 10/29-11/2. Odyssey Dance Theatre’s mission is to provide quality entertainment and artistic excellence in theatrical dance as a professional dance company; to provide employment for Utah’s talented dancers; to exercise and maintain fiscal responsibility and be debt free; and to make theatrical dance more accessible to a wide audience by utilizing current social themes and music, as well as creating and re-creating classical and full-length works that are exciting to all demographics.

www.OdysseyDance.com

Mike chats with Executive Director Stacie Kulp & Co-Founder of Pip Pop Post Sydney Bledsoe. There are Walks to End Alzheimer's on Saturday, September 28th at America First Field in Sandy and the Weber State University campus in Ogden. The Alzheimer's Association of Utah is the premier source of information and support for Utahns living with dementia and their families and caregivers. Our statewide offices help us to provide a broad range of free programs and services, funding for Alzheimer's and dementia research, and advocacy efforts on behalf of Utahns.

www.ALZ.org/Utah

Mike chats with Founder & President Kseniya Kniazeva. A 501(c)3 registered nonprofit, the Nomad Alliance is a group of concerned citizens working together with private and public partners to end homelessness and proffer hope, by providing warmth, nourishment, shelter, employment, healing, legal aid, connection and advocacy to the chronically unsheltered (nomad) population. We are a one-stop mobile resource for the chronically unsheltered in Salt Lake County. Our bi-monthly and monthly supply drives offer everything from clothing, blankets, tents, hygiene items and hot, home-cooked meals to haircuts, hot showers, legal and online support.

www.NomadAlliance.org

My Hometown Initiative (MHI) is a program in West Valley City that brings together city services, local churches, partner organizations and residents to work together for three main purposes: To bring new life and energy to City neighborhoods by improving the housing and the appearance of the neighborhood. To offer opportunities for the community’s families to advance and prosper. And to make the community a place where people will want to invest their time, money, and efforts. There are several Fall Festival events throughout the month of September.

www.MyHometownWVC.org