Spark Peace Project
The Spark Peace Project invites young people everywhere to use their power and creativity to engage with the world’s most pressing issues and build a more peaceful world.Ā
Use our ready-made lesson plans and creative resources to support students as they learn and explore what peace and compassion mean to themselves, their communities, and worldwide.Ā
Students then choose a creative medium to express their ideas about peace. Each work of creative expressionāor student engagedātriggers a $5 donation for organizations doing peacebuilding work around the world.
Get Your Students Engaged
Peace and compassion are needed today more than ever.
Young people face an increasingly complex world with global conflicts, social injustices, and mental health challenges shaping their realities.
Help young people grow.
Teaching students about peace helps them develop problem-solving and social-emotional skills and promotes compassion, critical thinking, and collaborationāessential tools for navigating and solving the complex challenges they face and becoming impactful and engaged global citizens.
Students can be empowered.
Deepening their understanding of peace empowers young people to positively impact their world, both now and in the future. It also helps youth explore global issues and connect to youth worldwide.
How It Works
Students Rebuild empowers young people ages 5-25 to take direct action and see firsthand how they
can make a difference. The project is adaptable and can be scaled from a single lesson to a full year. We
provide free resources to help you teach within whatever time and space you have.
Sign Up
Educators or youth leaders sign up their group or class for the project.
Explore
Use our free resources to teach students about the issue.
Create
Select a creative medium – visual art, writing, performance, digital media, or STEM – and have students express their ideas, thoughts, and solutions.
Share
Submit students’ work. Each creative work or student engaged unlocks a $5 donation to global charities, up to $1M.
Impact
Creative submissions help raise funds for local and global solutions.
Types Of Creative Work Accepted
Literary Arts (Short stories, essays, and poetry), Performing Arts (Dance, theater, and music), Media ArtsĀ (PSAs, films, and videos), Media ArtsĀ (PSAs, films, and videos), Visual Arts (Graphic design, drawings, paintings, photography, and memes), STEM (Robotics, digital design, and games)
Help Spark Peace Project
Help us reach our goal of raising $1M for 100cameras, Aegis Trust, CARE, Ceeds of Peace, Choose Love, Earth Tones, Green Horizon Ventures, Kids For Peace, and Ripples of Hope. These organizations are working on the ground to care for the air, land, and water around us.Ā
$1,000,000
Raised of $1,000,000 goal
107,728
Creative expressions of 125,000
92,802
Youth engaged
Learn more about the partner organizations these funds are helping support.
Need Help Getting Started?
Explore our resources! We have activity ideas, book lists, and standards-aligned curriculum for each element to help you easily implement the Spark Peace Project.
Gallery
Get inspired! Check out the Protect Our Planet Gallery to see the creative work submitted by young people around the world.
Hands of Peace
Team
St. Peter’s UMC of Ocean City, NJ
Reflection
We decorated hands and hung them in our church hallway.
DAY 1
Team
Dakota Hills Middle School
Reflection
DESIGNS TO SHOW PEACE
Enciende la paz
Team
Clase de espaƱol de la Profe Figueroa
Reflection
My Spanish 3 students created diverse expressions of art to send a message of peace. Some students submit musical pieces since music brings peace, others create visual arts to express their emotions. A few students wrote poems in Spanish. One submission is a video of the bus ride home because looking out of the window to the nature we have in our area brings the student peace.
See what students are creating around the world
Use this map to find other teams participating in the project ā the pins show where teams created their works of creative expression. Click the icons to learn how the programs you helped fund are making a difference.
Frequently Asked Questions
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