Maroon 5 is halfway through their 2013 Overexposed tour across North America. and the ONE team has been there every step of the way! ONE members and staff have been tabling inside the venues, encouraging concert goers to join ONE, take action and pick up some ONE wristbands to wear while dancing to their favorite

ONE Members Sam Griffith and Ali Bowman share the story of their young friend Laurence Carolin, who inspired them to start a ONE chapter at Dexter High School, then join ONE at the University of Michigan. For three years in a row, I have spent one particular February night at a cafe in Dexter, Michigan

Michigan ONE Member Sara Isaac explains how Michigan universities have set aside differences to work for a better world. There are few athletic rivalries fiercer than the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Wolverines and the Michigan State University Spartans. Last week, however, ONE members at the U of M and MSU overlooked their differences and united

International development accounts for less than 1 percent of the US budget. A small piece of the pie, which helps save, protect and feed hundreds of millions of people. Our wonderful ONE volunteers throughout the country are on a mission to make sure that people in their communities are educated about these facts and issues,

ONE Congressional District Leader Samuel Barajas, from Kalamazoo, Mich., and I met with Mr. Derrick Mathis of the Grand Rapids office for Senator Carl Levin last Thursday. Samuel, the rockstar ONE volunteer that he is, drove about an hour from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids just for our meeting. After arriving in Sen. Levin’s office, we

It was sprinkling outside when I made my way up out of the parking garage next to the federal building to meet with Jordan Bush, the District Representative of Rep. Justin Amash in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

University of Michigan and ONE Campus Volunteer Michelle DiMuzio reports event with USAID Administrator Raj Shah co-hosted by ONE at the University of Michigan and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. When I got accepted at the University of Michigan (UofM) last year, I have to say I was a skeptic. As an

It was sprinkling outside when I made my way up out of the parking garage next to the federal building to meet with Jordan Bush, the District Representative of Rep. Justin Amash in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As I’m shaking Mr. Bush’s hand, all I could think about was the fact that here I was, representing

This is a guest post from Chip Huber, author of The Zambia Project: The Story of Two World Turned Upside Down. In this piece, he writes about a recent trip to Zambia with a group of students, where he encountered the story of Alex. On my recent trip to Zambia with students and staff from

Last Saturday, the town of Dexter, Mich., came together to celebrate Airplane Day, a unique advocacy event that commemorates the life and legacy of Laurence Carolin, a Dexter teen who passed away due to brain cancer two years ago. Laurence was a truly incredible and selfless individual who was passionately involved with ONE and committed

About 30 ONE volunteers approached 70,000 people attending the U2 concert in East Lansing, Michigan, adding 3,257 new members to the existing 2.5 million members of ONE. Each signature also supported the GAVI vaccine petition, which will help save four million premature childhood deaths by 2015. ONE members from as far as South Carolina and

Though hundreds of campuses participated in Season 4 of the ONE Campus Challenge and proved their mettle month after month, there was one campus that stood out above the rest. The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor took the title as the top poverty-fighting university in the country! Check out their winning video: The University

ONE has been welcomed on several occasions by the office of Representative Gary Peters (MI). I live in the Congressman’s district, and his staff has been most receptive to hearing about the issues which concern his constituents. During a recent meeting with his Outreach Coordinator, Hy Safran, we discussed three foreign aid bills which are

I recently met with Rep. Gary Peters’s Congressional Liaison, Alex Greenfield. Over the course of almost an hour, Mr. Greenfield and I discussed many issues. I led the conversation to the status of the International Affairs Budget. I told him that my purpose in meeting with him, in addition to familiarizing the Congressman with ONE,

Nearly 500 students from some 20 Christian colleges and universities attended the three day Faith and International Development Conference at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. The theme was “Partnership: United in Service.”Students were there to learn more about development issues, including the role of advocacy, and how their faith impacts their efforts. By the