All Along the Wasatch

Mike chats with Executive Director Brandon Harding & Co-Creator and Veteran Anthony Droz. At Veterans in the Wild, our mission is empowering veterans through nature by providing transformative wilderness expeditions that promote healing, resilience, and community. Through veterans wilderness trips, we aim to support veterans in their transition to civilian life, fostering physical and mental w...

Mike chats with Co-Owner Lindsey Armstrong. In September of 2020 the idea of Clementine Ranch started becoming a reality. Rob and Lindsey's goal was the ranch would be a place of compassion, life, and creativity—one that combines their love of animals, a vegan lifestyle, and music. The future of the ranch would not only include the animal sanctuary, but also an organic greenhouse and a state...

Mike chats with Co-Founder and Director of Community Outreach Jennifer Simonic. Loose Ends aims to ease grief, create community, and inspire generosity by matching volunteer handwork finishers with projects people have left undone due to death or disability. Loose Ends welcomes textile handwork crafters of all sorts, from anywhere in the world. www. LooseEnds.org

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...

Mike chats with Executive Director Michelle Flynn & Communications Specialist Alicia Gleed. The all-day Mediathon, an annual tradition to raise money and other essential items for the Road Home, is happening on Friday, December 20th. The broadcast is a friendly competition among the radio stations to see who can bring in the most money by asking listeners and businesses to make donations. The...

Mike chats with Board Members Jessica White & Marty Bodell. The WARD foundation was recently organized as a 501(c)(3) charity. Our purpose is to continue retired educator Don Ward’s years of dedication to providing Welcome, Aid, Relief and Development opportunities to refugees living in the Wasatch front area. The WARD Foundation is a welcoming organization seeking to fill current and fu...

Mike chats with Founder and Artistic Director Derryl Yeager. Why go to endless Christmas productions when you can get your complete Holiday Fix at Odyssey Dance Theatre’s Christmas Spectacular, SPECTACULAR? Where you will be treated to every Christmas Season event in ONE production. December 19-23 at The Grand Theatre. Odyssey Dance Theatre’s mission is to provide quality entertainment...

Mike chats with Chief Impact & Strategy Officer Janell Cerva. Utah Community Action was founded in 1965 to meet the needs of the community, especially individuals experiencing poverty. The mission of Utah Community Action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-reliance programs. We do this through six core programs: Workforce Developmen...

Mike chats with Artistic Director Adam Sklute. Ballet West has one of the world’s largest ballet-based Education and Outreach programs, reaching over 100,000 children and adults throughout Utah and the Intermountain Region every year. America's 1st Nutcracker Celebrates 80 Years! Ballet West's holiday classic by founder Willam Christensen remains just as fresh and effervescent as its premier...

Mike chats with Executive Director Chris Croswhite. The Rescue Mission of Salt Lake is a faith-based nonprofit organization established in 1972 to help the homeless and Restore Broken Lives. Today, we have grown to five locations along the Wasatch Front  from Ogden to the Salt Lake Valley. We are a safe place where those who are homeless can experience the love of Christ and discover a pathwa...

Mike chats with Executive Director Brandon Harding & Co-Creator and Veteran Anthony Droz. At Veterans in the Wild, our mission is empowering veterans through nature by providing transformative wilderness expeditions that promote healing, resilience, and community. Through veterans wilderness trips, we aim to support veterans in their transition to civilian life, fostering physical and mental w...

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...

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 mo...

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...

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 h...

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 provid...

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 state...

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 mo...

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 mak...

Mike chats with Founder and President Brandy Vega. The 3rd Annual Global Promise2Live Livestream event is September 10th at The Avalon Theater in Los Angeles. Join us for a night of music, performers, and celebrities. We are committed to delivering HOPE, HELP, HEALING & RESOURCES to people through the devices and platforms they use, through the people and companies they know, trust & follo...

Mike chats with CEO Preston Cochrane, Senior Coach Tiffany Blair, and Coach Jackie Tress. The Other Side Village is a master-planned community of healing and purposeful living for people from chronic homelessness. The Village is founded on the conviction that housing alone will never solve homelessness, but the community will. The combination of high-quality, permanent, and deeply affordable housi...

Mike chats with Poets Sammi Walker and RJ Walker. The 30th anniversary of the Salt City Slam is August 26th at 7 pm at The Beehive, 666 South State in Salt Lake. There will be 11 hand-picked poets performing including LeChell “ The Shootah” Rush who is a Brooklyn- born Black queer multidisciplinary artist who creates socially engaging works exploring the complexities and taboos of inte...

Mike chats with Co-Founder Lauren Lockey. Sage Mountain is celebrating its 4th annual Plant-Based Palooza on August 24th. It's an evening of live music and catered food in the presence of rescued farm animals! Plus, there will be a silent auction for portraits of our rescued animal residents, products, gift cards, and services from many local businesses and artists. This year, their goal is to rai...

Mike chats with Executive Director Angela Brown. The 16th Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival Presented by Harmons is Utah’s largest local-centric art, music, science, and technology festival. The DIY Fest features hundreds of local artisans, vintage vendors, foodies, youth entrepreneurs, performers & STEM exhibitors over three days the second weekend of August. About Craft Lake City: Fo...

Mike chats with Executive Director Destiny Garcia, Case Manager Charlotte Waterbury, and Case Manager Efrén Corado Garcia. Criminal records—even very old and minor ones—can create huge barriers for people trying to find safe housing, good employment, and move forward with their lives. Although Utah has a legal expungement process, that process is so costly, time-consuming, and c...