ONE Campus Challenge

We launched the ONE Campus Challenge (OCC) for the first time in September 2007. Throughout the year, more than 26,000 students at more than 1,400 colleges and universities signed up to raise awareness and take action against global poverty on their campuses!

Students scored points for their schools by taking actions like writing and calling their members of Congress to pass poverty-fight legislation, raising awareness for ONE's issues through panels, speeches and large visual displays, and recruiting thousands more members to ONE.

In January, leaders from the 100 schools with the most points we're invited to DC for the "Power 100 Summit." Students heard from well-known leaders and influencers from both political parties, leaders of the poverty movement and learned and taught each other organizing techniques to take back to their campuses.

In March, the top 10 schools were awarded $10,000 grants to implement the best poverty-fighting program on their campuses.

While Brandeis, Campbellsville, Hofstra, GWU, Kansas State, Princeton, Sacred Heart, UNLV, and Wilmington all produced some amazing projects, in the end Western Kentucky University beat them all, at one point signing up more than 1,700 new members in just one day, writing scores of letters to their members of Congress through the year, getting WKU declared a Campus of ONE and their town Bowling Green, KY, declared a City of ONE.

WKU definitely rocked out OCC and set the bar pretty high last year, but now any school has the chance to take down our reigning champ.

Students submitted a ton of great photos and video last year. Throughout this page, check out some great highlights. We can't wait to update this page next year with all your new pics and videos.