#zeroLRA Uganda trip winner – Carlie Frye
After practicing our Oprah yell, we had the honor and privilege of announcing the winner of our two-week Uganda trip giveaway today to Carlie Frye. Carlie is the third winner, leaving four all-expenses-paid trips to Uganda still up for grabs. This win has been a long time coming for Carlie who has supported Invisible Children since […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // We need to talk about an injustice
I’ve given you a lot of TED Talks to watch over the past few months, but this one deserves a look. I mean it. Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the important and inextricable connection between our identity as a society, what we talk about, and what we care […]
Intern spotlight // UX/UI
Meet Justin. He’s an IC intern, a San Diego native, and just earned one of the coolest degrees ever from UCSD. Cognitive Science, with a specialization in Human/Computer Interactions. Already, he’s putting his degree to good use as Invisible Children’s UX/UI Intern. Don’t know what that is? Neither did I. That’s why I sat down […]
How Emma won a free trip to Uganda – and how you can too
At age 19, Emma is currently in her second internship at Invisible Children. But within the walls of our San Diego office is not how we first met Emma. We met Emma when she was 17 and on her way to Uganda after she won an all-expenses-paid trip during our 2011 Frontline campaign. I sat […]
5 Halloween fundraisers that work
The only thing better than getting candy this Halloween would be getting money – money for your fundraising page, of course. We’ve listed 5 of our favorite Halloween-themed fundraisers that will give you a good excuse to go all-out for October 31st. 1) Make a Haunted House Supplies: -Trash bags (to cover the walls) -Eerie […]
Reblog // 9 things you may or may not know about Africa
The below article was published in 2011 by Phil Paoletta, but I recently came across it and thought it was interesting. And by interesting, I mean funny and true and snarky. All of my favorite things. Phil is a writer and musician based in West Africa who teaches people how to draw camels for a living. Below […]
Intern spotlight // Corporate Engagement
Meet Tyler. After graduating from Arizona State University, working at a nonprofit in Ireland, and spending three years with the American Cancer Society, Tyler was an ideal addition to the Development Team as our Corporate Engagement Intern. As a nonprofit-loving people-person, Tyler gets the opportunity to rub elbows (over the phone, at least) with big […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // 30 day challenge
A month ago, we launched our global #zeroLRA campaign. In the past 30 days, you set up your fundraising page, you organized fundraisers, you watched us give away our first of seven free trips to Uganda, and you helped us raise over $154,000 for the men, women, and children still held captive by Kony’s LRA. […]
Stories from the road // going to extreme lengths for #zeroLRA
The following was written by Chris Szabo, a Roadie on the Heartland Team. I’m here touring the U.S. Heartland region this fall as a Roadie on a crazy adventure to end a 27-year-long war in East and central Africa led by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Millions have worked to end this conflict, and just […]
Intern spotlight // International Programs
Meet Lauren. We can’t get enough of her. Really though. Lauren is currently interning with Invisible Children for her third non-consecutive internship season. We were sad to see her leave for a little while she finished an International Affairs degree at James Madison University and spent a year au pairing in France, but – fortunately for […]