Blog Updates and inspiration

Let’s cut to the chase. Here is our newest mix of songs we urge everyone we know to listen to. They’re the ones soundtracking our work days gearing up for 2013 Fourth Estate Summit – that’s coming up soon, yeah? Launch all of our previous mixes on our Soundcloud [HERE]. Make it a priority to […]

Bear Mountain has been on our radar for a while now, and we were so excited when the opportunity came up to have them play at our office back in May. We were introduced to them by one of our dear friends and co-workers, Mercy, who is in the International Programs department here at Invisible […]

California singer/songwriter/great man Aaron Embry is the latest addition to our festival-ready lineup to perform at this summer’s 2013 Fourth Estate Summit. He will take a stage the same weekend as The Jane Doze, Noah Gundersen, Le Wrens, Ghost Beach, Carousel and In-Q. You might have seen him live performing with folk heavy-hitters Mumford & […]

By traveling down some scenic winding roads, past some roadside restaurants, and through small clearings of grouped huts, you will arrive at Irene’s new home – a 6-room building of bright red brick. She bought the land it’s built on with money she saved up as a seamstress at Mend, our social enterprise geared toward […]

The computer lab at Anaka Secondary School, constructed by Schools for Schools. Upperclassmen take lessons in information and computer technology to prepare for national exams.

On this day we’d like to continue the tradition of honoring a friend we lost – Nate Henn, a man who gave his time to Invisible Children’s mission. Nate passed away in a terror bombing in Kampala, Uganda, three years ago today. We wanted to share some words from another former Roadie Tyler Dunning, who was lucky […]

All secondary schools in Uganda have a Head Boy & Head Girl who are appointed student leaders. They help coordinate between staff and students, representing the needs of the students to teachers, and the authority of teachers to students. In most cases they are democratically elected; they write an application, and then the student body votes. […]

Today Kenny Laubbacher (our beloved Director of Artist Relations) is celebrating another year of life. Which led him to reflect and share some of the things he’s learned along the way. Yes please. DREAM IT INTO EXISTENCE: Believe it’s possible and other’s will too. Surround yourself with dreamers because the more people who think the impossible […]

As you can probably tell from this post, we are huge fans of the Imagination Foundation. We already shared how pumped we are that they’ll be joining us at the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit. Now we can share the exciting news that Nirvan Mullick, the creative mind behind the Caine’s Arcade video, will also be leading […]

Motivation. We all struggle with it, and we all wish we had more of it. In this TedxTalk, Dan Pink, previous speechwriter for Al Gore, dives headfirst into the topic and explains that most of us have it all wrong. Generally speaking, business and project managers seek to increase productivity and creativity of their subordinates […]