Blog Updates and inspiration

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 […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. Ojok Patrick was abducted by the LRA in 2000, when he was 11 years old. His mother, Ajok Helen, remembers him being hardworking and passionate about everything he did. […]

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 […]

Recent reports have been circulating about the possibility of Joseph Kony being ‘in surrender talks’ with the Central African Republic (one such report is this BBC article). Our CEO Ben Keesey has some thoughts on the matter: + We are very encouraged by the consistent reports over the last few months about the progress that […]

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 […]

Tomorrow we begin our next big Internet event – the Half Milli Holdout for #zeroLRA. You keep hearing the word “holdout,” but what does that even mean? Here is a not-at-all comprehensive but still really-really-exciting list of what is going down during this week’s “holdout.” The Deets: When: 10 AM PST on November 20 until midnight […]

When he was 10 years old, Opondo was abducted by Joseph Kony’s rebel army. After being held captive as a child soldier for 15 years, he finally escaped. He was rehabilitated and is now home with his family. CELEBRATE EVERYTHING. We are dismantling the Lord’s Resistance Army from within by encouraging soldiers like Opondo to […]

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 […]