2022: World Needs Challenge
Sparking global change through art–ivism
Addressing five of the world’s most pressing issues

How it Works
From understanding to action in 1-2-3.
1. Register, set, go.

First, register—it’s both easy and required. Then, jump into our resources and join teachers and students worldwide in this year’s Challenge.
2. Art up!

Students can choose one of five causes to support. Next, students learn more about their issue and find inspiration for their art. We provide free lessons and content, or you can use your own. When ready, submit your art online.
3. Make a Change!

For each piece of art we receive, the Bezos Family Foundation will make a $5 donation—up to $1.6 million—to organizations addressing some of our world’s biggest needs.
Get Started
Get Started with the World Needs Challenge
Why world needs?

Our Big Five
After moving through a worldwide pandemic beginning in 2020, each of the following needs surfaced as more relevant and resonant than ever: clean oceans, humanitarian aid for refugees, hunger relief, overcoming bias and arts activism. In order to address all of these critical issues and more facing the world today, what the world needs most is...YOU!
Students select the issues that matter most.
Students learn about and choose a world need they are inspired to help. Next, they create art to amplify the cause — be it a poster, button or pennant — to illustrate why it’s important and to raise awareness for the issue. For every artwork we receive between now and June 3, 2022, a donation of $10 (up to $2,500,000) will go to programs working to alleviate needs around the globe.


How the money will help.
Funding students generate will support multiple organizations and programs, including The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to address rising ocean climate; No Kid Hungry’s global hunger relief work; International Rescue Committee’s human rights work serving refugees; CARE USA and The King Center’s education efforts towards peacemaking and anti-racism; and Creative Reaction Lab’s programs to put art into action. Altogether, the World Needs Challenge will help make a difference for more than one million young people worldwide.

May = Doubles Month!
Starting May 1, 2022, Students Rebuild is launching our annual Double Donation campaign. This month-long campaign gives our artivists the chance to double the art, double the donations, and double the impact students make for the 2022 Challenge.
DOUBLE THE DONATIONS: For every piece of artwork we receive between now and May 31st, the Bezos Family Foundation is doubling its donation to our World Needs Challenge partners! That means for every piece of artwork submitted, $10 instead of $5 will go to tackling five global issues.
Help us reach our goal of $2.5 million for the five global issues we are taking on through the World Needs Challenge!
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Updates
World Needs Challenge Updates
Congrats to the April Team of the Month Team Rio 1st & 2nd from Las Vegas, New Mexico's Rio Gallinas School of the Arts and Ecology. Check out their inspiring art on food deserts.
March’s Teacher Tip is from Keyla Johnson at Commodore Conyers College and Career Academy in Albany, GA. Take it away!
February’s Teacher Tip is from Lori Huntsman from Spreckels Elementary in San Diego. Take it away, Lori!
This month’s award goes to the Roots&Shoots team from Forest Grove, OR. This champion team has been participating in Challenges since 2014! Check out their awesome art for inspiration.
Each month, we showcase a team participating in the World Needs Challenge. For January, we’re shining a light on the Spreckels Wildcats team from San Diego, CA. Check out their awesome MLK-inspired art.
January’s Teacher Tip is from Nadina Carmen Nicolici from Lorin Salagean Technical High School in Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania! Take it away, Nadina.
Each month, we’re celebrating teams participating in the World Needs Challenge from around the globe. For December, we’re shouting out the Students Who Care team from Oberlin Elementary School in Oberlin, Ohio!
This year, we're inviting educators to share creative and practical ways to implement Students Rebuild in the classroom. This month we’re featuring Cynthia Cullen from Half Hollow Hills Central School District from Dix Hills, New York. Take it away, Cynthia!
This year, we're inviting educators to share creative and practical ways to implement Students Rebuild in the classroom. This month we’re featuring Mira Septimus from LV Moore Middle School in Roselle, New Jersey. Take it away, Mira!
Congratulations to October Team of the Month Cheltenham Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) team from Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania!
This year, we're inviting educators to share creative and practical ways to implement Students Rebuild in the classroom. First up is Linda Ann Wrins-Ryan from Louisville, Kentucky. Take it away, Linda Ann!
Want a behind the scenes look of the young people who worked with #WorldNeedsChallenge partner Global Nomads Group to create our resource videos?
This year, we’re inviting students from around the world to join us in a choose-your-own-adventure-style Challenge tackling five big issues to support some of the greatest needs in our global community.
Create art to amplify the cause — be it a poster, button or pennant — to illustrate why it’s important and to raise awareness for the issue. For every artwork we receive between now and June 3, 2022, a donation of $5 (up to $2,500,000) will go to programs working to alleviate needs around the globe.