Blog Updates and inspiration

[AUCTION NOW LIVE – Click here] It’s taken us a long while to write this post because we haven’t even come to terms about thinking of what to say, but we no longer can hoard this treasure… Dustin Kensrue’s guitar from our secret acoustic shows during Thrice’s Farewell Tour 2012 is going up for auction. […]

After posting our staff’s top album picks from 2012 so far, I caught some heat from some of my friends in the music industry (*cough* VICTORIA) reaming me for all of the amazing artists we forgot to include. The solution? Going to the people whose taste I trust most to see what their top albums […]

Today is the day. We are calling, emailing, and tweeting our government representatives. We want the decision makers of the world to meet at the UN General Assembly and talk about how they’re going to work together to stop LRA violence. Everyone–whether U.S. or international–can go to Kony2012.com and find out exactly what to say […]

[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it’s important for us to be a part of that language.] I’m in love with this mix. I hope you are too! Don’t forget to support […]

In March, we launched our latest campaign for all the world to see. In the Communications Department we refer to that week as “that time the world exploded.” For one man from Great Britain, that phrase is a pretty accurate description of his experiences in the month of March. David Simpson, a 24-year-old pilot was […]

What do you want to do before you die? That age-old question has inspired countless books, movies, TV shows, and millions of individual bucket lists around the world. For former newspaper reporter Susan Spencer-Wendel, being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – or Lou Gehrig’s disease – was devastating news that forced her to confront […]

Tony, one of Invisible Children’s (IC) Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students, was recently given capital to start up a cattle-farming enterprise in order to gain financial independence. “I chose rearing of cows for my project because they are easy to maintain, I am assured of milk for my family, and with breeding the cows can […]

I was browsing Slate and this headline caught my eye: “In Washington, You Can Register to Vote on Facebook. Could Voter Registration Go Viral?” Ponder that possibility. How the demographic of voters would change. All the trees saved. I’m into it. (I didn’t see the KONY 2012 reference until I’d read it all the way […]

After driving for over an hour to get to one of Invisible Children’s (IC) partner schools in Anaka, Amy remembers, “My first thought stepping off the bus and scanning the grounds was ‘I cannot wait to tell everyone back home how successful our partner school is.’” It may seem odd to care deeply about individuals […]

Ashley Benner and Kaspar Agger from the Enough Project wrote this article for the Global Post about  “how forces fighting the LRA are unprepared, underfunded and incapable.” It’s called Joseph Kony: Always One Step Ahead Sounds bleak. But there very specific things that our leaders can do to give the current mission to arrest Joseph Kony and […]