ONE STONE INC
7025 w Emerald St Suite 200, Boise, ID 83704 www.onestone.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: One Stone makes students better leaders and the world a better place. As a student-led and directed 501c(3), One Stone empowers students to develop valuable skills and learn important values by leading engaging, experiential service projects that transform individuals and communities. In all projects, students seek understanding and authentic connection with the population served. Through this process we achieve a double bottom line of success: 1) Students learn and practice critical 21st century skills: leadership, teamwork, adaptability, problem solving, confidence, creativity, empathy, communication, awareness of community issues and the ability to make change with 90% measured success. 2) One Stone projects transform individuals and communities for lasting impact, creating community constituency beneficiaries. One Stone uses design thinking to develop projects reflecting our values: ownership, experiential service, empowerment, equality of voice, community and innovation.

One Stone makes students better leaders and the world a better place. "Disrupting for Good", this student-led and directed 501c(3) empowers high school students to learn and practice 21st century skills through experiential service, innovative initiatives and social entrepreneurship. 90% of One Stone students report an improvement in 21st century skills (leadership, teamwork, adaptability, problem solving, confidence, creativity, empathy, communication) as well as an increased awareness of community and the ability to make change. One Stone projects are student selected, providing an opportunity for an authentic connection and benefit to the recipient. Our work is rooted in design thinking, a creative problem solving and innovation discovery process developed at Stanford University's d.school, to create human-centered solutions to complex issues.

Two Birds, a social enterprise, is a student led creative services agency that provides real world experience for students interested in learning about design, marketing, and social entrepreneurship, while providing affordable creative services to social entrepreneurs, start ups and other non profits. The students are mentored by professionals in the field, and are engaged in all phases of production and client management.

The 24 Hour Think Challenge's second year focused on relevant 21st century learning, a topic near and dear to the heart of students. 150 students from 32 southwest Idaho schools gathered for two days to take a hard look at where Idaho is headed and bring Idaho into the conversation about what's next in learning. Divided into 15 teams, students followed the design thinking process to understand, empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test their ideas for implementation. With the help of Pit Crew teams, Coaches and One Stone staff, the student teams pitched their ideas for future learning to a crowd of over 500 parents, volunteers, community members and influencers. In a post event survey, 85 percent of participants reported that they felt more invested in their own learning experience and over 90 percent reported that the Think Challenge experience would help them problem solve in other areas of their life. To carrying on the impact of the event, over 50 students joined One Stone to continue examining the future of learning in Idaho as well as other passions. Additionally, One Stone students have had the opportunity to take Think Challenge ideas and findings to other audiences, including legislators, policy makers and the Boise School District. In 2016 One Stone will continue to seek opportunities to advance the message of student voice in education.

Break Through Kuna 2.015, a two day student led and directed project sought to empower student voice through community improvement projects that brought more art and color to the town of Kuna, Idaho. Two days, nine projects, 90 plus volunteers, 16 gallons of paint, hundreds of sandwiches, 1 million tumbleweeds that found a new home and color everywhere best describes Break Through 2.015 Kuna, One Stone's eighth alternative spring break project. High school students from across the Treasure valley joined together in a flurry of teamwork and creativity for student led and directed community improvement projects including community art installations, the creation of a community garden, a sand volleyball court, a fence mosaic and benches featuring student artwork. The event culminated in the One Stone Walkabout, a one mile walk around Kuna's greenbelt where participants had an opportunity to see some of the finished student art installations and other projects. As part of the project, students created a walking map of the area that will serve as a lasting guide to the accomplishments of the community event. A drone, a first for Kuna, caught the event on film. In a post survey of the project, over 98 percent of the students reported that Break Through Kuna improved their collaboration skills, 90 percent reported the project created a sense of community and inspired them to get more involved with their community and 100 percent reported the project successfully connected students from different schools in the valley.

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