Blog Updates and inspiration

Happy Monday! Time for a lil mixtape. Each track here has it’s own specific quality that’ll make you take notice. Obviously there’s a ton of stellar songs being discovered every day, but these particular ones have a “special something”, making them stand out in a string of songs. In that case, when they’re put in […]

It’s been a busy few weeks for our team in the Central African Republic (and a little bit of a party), as we hosted a symposium on Come Home Messaging last Tuesday, alongside some major players in the counter-LRA initiative. Come Home Messaging is an effort to encourage LRA defection by using targeted personal messages […]

Invisible Children is one in a coalition of NGOs that have been urging for stronger United States’ engagement in addressing the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). This week, we need your help in encouraging our policymakers to take action. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power is traveling to Rwanda to commemorate the […]

For the first Monday Mixtape of April I present you with some exciting discoveries. All these tracks are unique in their own way– though they all have a bit of dreaminess to them. So glide into the fresh week, and the fresh month, with some fresh tunes. 01. SIREN – I Think I Like You :: If […]

Last week NPR released a story called “Kony’s Back in the News. Do Teenagers Still Care?”. NPR is a very a highly revered news outlet in the Invisible Children office. Odds are, if you walk past any of us with our headphones on, we’re listening to our favorite NPR podcast (S/O: Wait, Wait Don’t Tell […]

Brenna and Spencer are both warm, adventurous members of Invisible Children’s spring 2014 Engagement Team- that makes them the personal voice of Invisible Children to our supporters. Pioneer woman Spencer wove her way down to southern California from her homeland Canada (she’s from Vancouver) in her faithful Honda Element, stopping along the way to camp and […]

Emma Williamson. She’s the kind of person you want as a friend– smart, witty and as sharp in person as she is in cyberspace. She’s also “queen of the internet”, which makes her a perfect fit for our communications internship. The fact that she wanted to interview herself and author this blog (the idea was […]

Here it is people: the fifth and last mixtape for March. So as we march into April (see what I did there?) here’s some new music to close out one month and kick off the next. Hopefully, wherever you are, the warm weather is starting to come in and all you want to do is jam out […]

Happy Monday + Happy Spring! March 20th was the first official day of spring. So, here’s some fresh music for a fresh season. Listen to these cool tracks as you picnic at the park or take a stroll around the park… okay for some reasons my strongest connotation with spring is going to the park. […]

We’re excited. We’ll be the first to admit we get to do a lot of cool things in our day to day. But this is certainly one of the most exciting. What? At SXSW 2014 we took part in a mega-collaboration. We partnered with Rallysong, the crowdfunding, fan engagement platform, and several incredible music makers. The musicians involved […]