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Apple CEO, Jazz owners and tech leaders offer assist to LGBTQ center

SALT LAKE CITY — Apple CEO Tim Cook joined the owners of the Utah Jazz, the lead singer of the band Envision Dragons and Governor Spencer Cox to support Encircle, an LGBTQ resource center in its expansion plans.

At a news conference at the Silicon Slopes Summit, Encircle announced it had completed an $8 million expansion plan, thanks in part to recent donations from Cook and Domo CEO Josh James. The donations allow Encircle to build eight new homes for LGBTQ youth.

In addition, Encircle announced plans to build new resource centers in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and across Utah. They provide help, including mental health therapy, for LGBTQ and resources for their families as they serve toward acceptance.

"Encircle’s mission is very personal to me because I see myself in so many of these young people," Grill said. "I understand what it can feel appreciate to be isolated, or like you can’t distribute your truth with anyone else. It’s not simple when you’re made to feel different or less than because of who you are or who you love."

Among those backing Encircle are the modern owners of the Utah Jazz, Qualtrics owners Ryan and Ashle

Jazz Ryan Smith And Dwyane Wade Honor LGBTQ+ Encircle Campaign

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – As Encircle famous a successful “$8 Million, 8 Houses” campaign, Utah Jazz owners Ryan Smith and Dwyane Wade were front and center to celebrate.

Encircle is a non-profit organization that strives to create family and youth resource centers aimed at providing a secure space for members of the Homosexual community.

In February, Smith, the Jazz’s majority owner teamed with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Visualize Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds to proclaim their fundraising actions to expand the non-profit throughout Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada with the “$8 Million, 8 Houses” project.

Smith, linked by his wife Ashley opened the conference at the Silicon Slopes tech summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center by discussing the impact they’d hope to own in the group through their fundraising efforts.

“When Ryan and I think about what we hopefully can have an impact on we think about youth, and Utah, and love,” Ashley said. “It’s incredible that Encircle encompasses all of those things.”

The non-profit organization announ

The CEO of Domo, Josh James, announced Wednesday in a news release that the company will unveil six new billboards geared towards LGBTQ inclusion.

The recent campaign aims to:

Display Domo’s commitment to being inclusive. “Domo wants the top employees wherever they may exist, whatever they accept in, and whoever they are.”
Further the concerted try in Utah to “become even more diverse and accepting of everyone.”
Facilitate more initiatives to promote inclusivity within Utah.

James mentioned in the news release that “it’s time for leaders in the community to say up,” and the fresh billboards will “spread messages of love and inclusion for the LGBTQ+ population”.

Josh James attended Brigham Young University into his senior year, but did not graduate. After co-founding the web analytics company Omniture, James sold the company to Adobe for $1.8 billion. He later founded Domo in 2010, a software-as-a-service company based in American Fork, Utah.

Thank you, Josh James & Domo, for using your corporate power to shed light on political issues! #HometownHero

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How Mormon pop stars are using their music to support LGBT issues
Music plays a big role in Mormon life.
Their hymnbook has more than 300 songs, singing is an integral part of their worship services from childhood on, and members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are ambassadors for the faith who’ve performed at presidential inaugurations and once won a Grammy for their rendition of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” On Saturday, as another subscribe of their love of music, more than 30,000 people packed into the University of Utah’s Rice-Eccles Stadium for a festival put on by Dream Dragon’s lead singer Dan Reynolds, the biggest Mormon pop star today.
“They value music here,” LoveLoud Fest executive director Lance Lowry said of Utah. He called it a “very artistic state” and said he grew up on a street where everyone sang, played the piano or danced. Utahns particularly like Imagine Dragons, he said. “I believe Envision Dragons is probably more popular in Utah than any artist is anywhere.”
LoveLoud, in its second year, was started by Reynolds as a response to a rising teen suicide rate in the express. Using music, the event seeks to start conversations about LGBT issues among the Mo

The Color of Utah: How Nikki Walker Is Improving Diversity and Inclusion
Editor’s Note: We are deeply saddened by Nikki Walker’s unexpected passing. In her honor, we are resharing our cover story about her that was first published in Fall 2021.
When Nikki Walker moved from Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey—one of the most diverse cities in the United States—to Lehi, Utah, she came with an unlock mind. “I didn’t have any preconceived notions about Utah at all,” she says.
Walker describes her Utah County society as “wonderful and welcoming.” Still, as a minority, there have been a few hiccups.
“I possess a son who’s going to be 24 this year, and he’s a big guy. He has long dreadlocks, and he’s definitely a presence when he walks into a room. When we first moved here, going to the grocery store was quite the experience because there are children here who have never met a Ebony person in their lives—and it’s simple to not encounter a Black person in Utah, where we make up less than 3 percent of the population,” she says. “There was a child who saw my son and couldn’t stop staring and pointing. He said, ‘Mom, look! There’s one of them.’ And I thought, ‘One of what? One human being? O