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- EIN 26-3599715
- (208) 863-7738
- 1151 W Miller St Boise ID 83702-6965 USA
- www.onestone.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: 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.
Programs: 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 was a community conversation and design thinking challenge. The two day event engaged 153 high school juniors from 23 different high schools across the treasure valley in idaho. Their challenge? To learn about, examine, and offer new ways to address complex issues relating to education, life, stem education and health through the power of student voice
explore camp, an anti childhood obesity and self esteem building project, is an example of what's possible when you believe in yourself. One stone collaborated with st. Luke's health system's yeah program, bogus basin mountain recreation area, and boise parks and recreation to create a program on preventing childhood obesity. The one stone team helped design, plan, and implement the week-long intensive camp for yeah program participants. One stone students partnered up with a camp buddy for five days of nutritional education, activity and self esteem building exercises. Campers experienced a week of fun that had a lasting impact on both their physical and mental health.
remaining 2014 one stone projects included: open book adventures, break through 2014, idaho youth ranch design thinking exercises, eat to beat, bright, bloom, breaker boise, ripple, bxp, outlet and a little more kind. From tutoring and mentoring literacy projects to an eight day design challenge to our signature annual spring "break through" service project, one stone students were kept busy the entire year. Recipients involved in the projects included idaho youth ranch residents, recent refugees to boise, foster children, children of incarcerated parents and children at risk in the boise area.