Students Rebuild Marks 15-Year Milestone of Global Impact:

Over1MYouth Engaged,$16.6MMillion Raised, and7MWorks of Art

LOS ANGELES,Sept. 16, 2025/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Students Rebuild, founded by the Bezos Family Foundation and now powered by Creative Visions,marks 15years of global youth empowerment, celebrating over 1 million youth participants,$16.6 millionraised, and 7 million works of art created worldwide. This milestone comes with the launch of its 2025-2026 Unique& United project – an open invitation for young people everywhere to use creative action to explore identity, bridge divides, and build connection.

From now untilJune 1, 2026, students, youth leaders, parents, and educators can learn more and sign up for the Students Rebuild 2025-2026 project atwww.studentsrebuild.org. There they'll access free resources, lesson plans, creative toolkits, and can submit creative works in any medium. Each submission or student engaged sparks a$5donation, up to$1 million, for organizations fostering connection and championing collaborative change worldwide.

"Right now, young people are facing a world of division, uncertainty, and rapid change,"saysPat Chandler, CEO of Creative Visions."Yet they are seeking ways to understand themselves and connect with others. This year's project, Unique& United, helps students explore their uniqueness, challenge assumptions, and build bridges and empathy through creative expression."

What is Students Rebuild?

Students Rebuild is a global program, founded by the Bezos Family Foundation, that invites young people to use their creativity to engage with our world's most pressing issues and create meaningful change. Since 2010, the initiative has mobilized youth in all 50 U.S. states and more than 100 countries to use creative action to help communities address the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change to migration to war and conflict.

About Unique& United

Unique& United empowers youth to understand our shared humanity, foster dialogue, and collaborate to spark positive change.

This year, Students Rebuild is collaborating with global impact partners spanningHonduras,Ukraine,Greece,Kenya, andLos Angeles, whose work celebrates being unique, building unity, and expanding the reach of arts-based education and youth empowerment.

Meet the Impact Partners Driving Global Unity Through The Arts

• CAREwill empower young people in Honduras—especially girls—facing poverty, violence, and migration by fostering solidarity and equipping youth as community advocates.
• Choose Loveis partnering with organizations inUkraineandGreeceto provide youth with safe spaces for art-based healing from war trauma.
• Kids for Peacewill engage 1,000 youth across 50 states and 10 countries in inclusion activities like affirmation card creation and trust-building exercises.
• Narrative 4is expanding its Cities School Challenge to 40 schools inKenyathrough story exchanges and creative projects that strengthen empathy and leadership.
• Search for Common Groundwill pilot the Common Ground Leadership Academy to train future leaders in navigating complex landscapes and fostering collaboration across divides.
• Homeboy Art Academywill launch healing-centered arts programming, blending workshops and exhibitions to support formerly incarcerated and gang-involved youth inLos Angeles.
• Ripples of Hopewill supportSouth Africa-based fellows in using creative activities like dance and spoken word to promote cultural exchange and strengthen community bonds.
• Green Horizon Ventureswill combine classroom participation with public awareness campaigns to engage 12,000 youth acrossRwanda'sfive provinces in arts-based education.
• TREEAMSwill empower students acrossLos Angelesto plant trees, restore optimism, and reimagine the city as greener and more resilient.
• Open Roadswill support program alumni in leading discussions about individuality, unity, and the importance of nature with youth in the US.
• WelcomingAmericawill provide support to rural US leaders to increase their capacity and confidence for advancing inclusion efforts in their communities.

To learn more about the Unique& United Impact Partners, visithttps://www.studentsrebuild.org/partners. 

About Students Rebuild

Students Rebuild is a Creative Visions program. Created inJanuary 2010by the Bezos Family Foundation in response to the devastatingHaitiearthquake, Students Rebuild has mobilized more than 1.3 million participants in 102 countries and all 50 states and raised more than$16.6 millionin matching funds. Annual Project funds have worked towardsrebuilding schools inHaiti,bringing awareness to humanitarian crises inSomaliaand theDemocratic Republic of Congo,helping Syrian youth from conflict areas recover from crisis, andsupporting empowerment opportunities for youth affected by hunger and food insecurity. Find more atwww.studentsrebuild.organd @StudentsRebuild.

About Creative Visions

Creative Visions empowers artists, filmmakers, musicians, and other impact media makers to raise awareness of critical issues and drive positive change through storytelling – one of our most powerful tools for creating a more just, caring, and sustainable world. The nonprofit organization and United Nations NGO, was founded in memory of 22-year-old artist and photojournalistDan Eldon, who died in 1993 while covering the conflict inSomaliafor Reuters New Agency.Creative Visions'Impact Education programs support youth, educators, and changemakers to understand how to use media, arts, and technology to take creative action about the things they care about. For more information:www.creativevisions.org.

SOURCE Creative Visions