Frequently Asked Questions

Students Rebuild was founded by the Bezos Family Foundation and has flourished under its guidance for the past 14 years. Established to leverage the creativity and dedication of young people worldwide, together we tackled global challenges through the power of art.

To build on this incredible legacy and reach even greater heights, Students Rebuild is now transitioning to a new operating organization, Creative Visions. This exciting move will enable Students Rebuild to expand and thrive, benefiting from Creative Visions’ extensive experience and enthusiasm. We are excited about this new chapter and the possibilities it brings for even more positive change.

We initially referred to our initiatives as ‘Challenges’ because it seemed fitting. But as we’ve grown, we came to feel that the term ‘Project,’ (which we adopted in 2022 with the Welcoming Refugees Project) more accurately reflects our belief that, though global problems are large and complex, young individuals can unite and create meaningful change in the world.

Students Rebuild, a program of  Creative Visions,  is a global movement that inspires young people to use their creativity to engage with our world’s most pressing issues and create meaningful change. 

For more, visit our How it Works page.

Sí. El Proyecto Spark por la Paz, que comenzó en otoño de 2024, se desarrollará hasta el verano de 2025. Los estudiantes pueden participar creando un proyecto que refleje sus ideas sobre la paz y la compasión y enviándolo a través de nuestro sitio web.

Por cada pieza de expresión creativa o joven comprometida, hacemos una donación de $5 a nuestros Impact Partners. Desde 2010, se han recaudado más de $12,5 millones, que han beneficiado a más de 450.000 jóvenes de todo el mundo. Para incentivar a los jóvenes a profundizar en proyectos que puedan requerir más tiempo o esfuerzo, Creative Visions activará una donación $5 por cada estudiante que participe. 

The Spark Peace Project will end in June 2024. Please make sure to register and submit your creative expressions before then.

At Students Rebuild, we believe in the Carl Wilkens quote, “When you make something with your hands, it changes the way you feel, which changes the way you think, which changes the way you act.”

We’re hopeful that as Project participants work on the items they’ll send in, they think about the Project topic and the beneficiaries they’re helping. We want to give all young people a way to show they care, to feel empathy, and take action—and we’ll handle the funding!

Our unique model of young people engaging with large issues and deploying creative problem solving from all walks of life to learn, helps to build a global culture of care and empathy for future generations who will be tasked with tackling these issues in the future.

No!

A lot of our Project teams join as classrooms or library groups, but many of our teams are service clubs (e.g. Key Clubs, 4-H, Girl Guides), art clubs, or diversity clubs. Individuals participate alone, museums and community groups start teams, homeschooling parents and their children participate, and we even have teams comprised of Big Sisters and Big Brothers working with their “Littles.” Faith groups gather in houses of worship to participate, and often friends with no affiliation to any group gather and participate.

So it’s completely up to you how you’d like to participate in the Challenge—what’s important is that young people learn about critical global issues, build empathy, and take action by creating the Challenge “call-to-action” item.

There’s no minimum or maximum to the number of people you can have on a Challenge team. It’s common to be a team of one; we’ve also seen teams of hundreds of people! Just make sure you register for the Project here.

Yes! Please register for the active Challenge even if you’ve taken one before. This helps us accurately track the number of items made and people involved with each Project.

Yes! You can make as many pieces of art as you’d like! While many of our teams set stretch goals for the number of pieces of art they produce, we ask that they are intentional and thoughtful in the process of crafting each one.

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