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The following is a partial list of assets known to be owned or controlled by the LDS Church: AgReserves - the largest producer of nuts in the United States (circa. 1997) [1] Beneficial Financial Group - An insurance and financial services company with assets of $3.1 billion. [56] Bonneville International - the 14th largest radio chain in the U ...
A Giving Machine is a specialized vending machine that allows people to donate various items to select nonprofit organizations. [1] [2] [3] The vending machines are put up in public areas throughout the world during the Christmas and holiday season by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS or Mormon Church).
In 2008, the LDS Church responded to 124 disasters in 48 countries. [5] [dead link ] Wheelchair Distribution is another church program crucial to helping those in need. By providing wheelchairs to those in need, the church hopes to help people become more self-reliant which is an important tenet of LDS beliefs. [6]
Welfare Square was created in 1938, [2] under the direction of the Church's General Welfare Committee, which itself had been formed just two years earlier. [3] Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States was experiencing the Great Depression Welfare Square became the flagship of the Church's Welfare Program.
Deseret Industries (/ ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ) [1] (known locally as DI) is a non-profit organization and a division of the welfare services provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). DI thrift stores are similar to the well-known Goodwill Industries.
When the Mormon pioneers first settled in the western United States in 1847, LDS Church leaders encouraged members to perform their fast on the first Thursday of each month, and to donate the food thus saved to their bishop. This food was collected in small buildings called "Bishop's Storehouses", and were held until needed by other members ...
As of 2010, the official documentation of church institutional policies known as Handbook 2: Administering the Church states that, of both garments and temple clothing in general, only temple aprons may be hand made, and only then using "the approved apron embroidery and sewing kit that is available through Church Distribution Services." [33]
Latter-day Saint Charities, the humanitarian arm of the church, has provided Hospitals and clinics, and disaster relief among other supplies and services. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 2021, Latter-day Saint Charities provided a $20 million donation to UNICEF to provide vaccines to Belize and other countries.