Save the date for the 2023 Common Good Awards with Envision Utah!

Please join us for a special luncheon to celebrate Envision Utah's 2023 Common Good Awards!  Each year, the Common Good Awards are given to the people and organizations who are doing great things for Utah’s future. Award winners will be announced in November.  This year’s event will also feature an interactive panel discussion on the future of housing, water, transportation, and open space and recreation — four issues central to the Guiding Our Growth process.  Special thanks to Governor Spencer Cox, Honorary Co-Chair of Envision Utah, who will help present this year’s awards. 

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

The Little America Hotel

Stay tuned for ticket information!

Interested in sponsoring this year's event? Contact Sarah Beck for sponsorship opportunities. 

Hungry for results from the Guiding Our Growth survey?

Join us this Wednesday at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s October Newsmaker Breakfast. Ari Bruening will join Laura Hanson, state planning coordinator, and Andrew Gruber, executive director of WFRC, to talk about the results from the Guiding Our Growth survey, the next steps in the Guiding Our Growth process, and how we keep Utah a great place to live even as we grow. After that, watch your inbox as we share detailed results over the coming weeks.

"Growth in Utah: What's the Plan?"

Wednesday, October 11

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Thomas S. Monson Center

411 East South Temple

Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

Please RSVP to gardnerinstitute@eccles.utah.edu as space is limited. 

Discover Valuable Parenting Insights from Envision Utah's Early Learning Team

School is back in session for the older kids, but what about your baby or toddler? You can get them ready for school, friends, and life with a little extra brain-building in those simple, shared, everyday moments you have together!

Try this Vroom Tip called Air Race

Invite your child to collect rocks, sticks, or leaves of different weights. Ask them to predict what will happen if they drop two different things at the same time and then test it out. Do some things fall faster than others? Talk back and forth about what you notice and what might be happening.

What they’re learning:

When you and your child play Air Race, you're encouraging them to think like a scientist. You're designing an experiment to test how different objects fall.

Envision Utah's Early Learning team offers helpful tips to parents, grandparents, and caregivers on how everyday interactions can become intentional teaching moments to help build and develop children's brains. Check out this month's Vroom Tip™.

In the news

Desert News

School districts in Utah, such as Canyons District, have been working to attract teaching talent to the state through partnerships at out-of-state universities and competitive starting salaries. During an interview with Envision Utah, data on starting salaries around the state revealed that school districts such as Park City, Logan, Wasatch, South Summit, Tooele, Murray and Ogden are among the districts paying more than $60,000 to first-year teachers. Read more

For 25 years, Envision Utah has brought Utahns together to tackle some of the biggest challenges related to growth — and you have made that happen. But whether we’re talking about air quality, water use, transportation, education, disaster resilience, or a host of other issues, there’s more work to be done. When you support Envision Utah, you’re helping to create a bright future for our state.

Thank you for your support!