Blog Updates and inspiration

Maybe it’s because I’m a recent college grad whose peer group seems to talk about nothing but the job hunt. Maybe it’s because I intern at an organization where everyone seems to miraculously love their job. Whatever the reason, this TED Talk about work life captured my attention and I thought it was worth sharing. […]

If there’s one day of the year where people are feeling generous, it’s after they’ve spent a day gorging on food, counting their blessings, and waiting to megashop. Black Friday is a HUGE window of opportunity to absolutely smash it on fundraising. And since the average Black Friday shopper shells out $423, they won’t mind […]

If you have ever taken a selfie (and if you were born after 1985, you definitely have), you know that the perfect selfie demands a delicate dance of photographic conditions. Chin titled downward. Hair parted and cascading with balanced vivacity down both shoulders. Lighting in front of the face. Flash off. And finally — now […]

We are smack dab in the middle of our three-day Half Milli Holdout, where are goal is to raise $500,000 for #zeroLRA. All of our shenanigans can be viewed LIVE at www.livestream.com/invisiblechildren. For full details about the Half Milli Holdout, the prizes you could win, and all the ways we’re entertaining you (and ourselves) can be […]

Congratulations to the fourth winner of our Uganda trip giveaway – Kristen Pedley! Kristen took the competition up a notch by raising $12,190 for #zeroLRA in only two weeks. Kristen discovered IC in high school when she attended a screening of The Rough Cut and has been involved in IC ever since. For this competition, she managed […]

Erica Shay — activist extraordinaire, master fundraiser, and all-star human — wrote a powerful piece that appeared in The Huffington Post entitled “I Am Big.” We thought it was too good not to share. // When Invisible Children came to my high school in the fall of 2009, I was 16 years old. I was […]

We pride ourselves on doing things differently at Invisible Children, and sometimes “different” translates as “crazy.” This week will be one of those times. From November 20-22, the entire staff at IC Headquarters is camping out in the office for 72 hours until we reach a fundraising goal of $500,000. Things are going to get […]

I love TED Talks of the self-help variety that force you to reexamine your life and then motivate you to be a better person. Simon Sinek‘s talk, “How great leaders inspire action,” falls under this category indirectly. Drawing on economical, biological, and sociological evidence, Sinek traces the simple yet profound strategies that famous leaders like MLK, […]

This season, we are celebrating everything — every escape, every name, every life — and we are asking our supporters to do the same as we countdown to #zeroLRA. The Marciano family took celebrations to a whole new level when, after hosting our California Roadies at their home, they found out Proscovia, a Roadie from Uganda, […]

Zachary Kimotho knows what it means to be caught in the crossfire of injustice. A native of Kenya, Zack was shot in a car-jacking incident eight years ago from which he suffered a severe spinal injury that has left him wheelchair-bound ever since. There is currently no specialist care for spinal injuries in Kenya, or elsewhere […]