Blog Updates and inspiration

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 […]

We aim to be efficient – using what already exists rather than building from scratch is one way we save time and resources. As part of our defection and protection efforts in central Africa, Invisible Children recently implemented two major upgrades on FM stations. This past week, IC funded the installation of a 30m mast at Radio […]

We’re always told to chase after our dreams…phrases like “Shoot for the stars” are seared into my mind and for a long time I resented them because I wasn’t particularly passionate about anything. I’m not artistic, I can’t sing or dance, I don’t like math, and the idea of business school is nauseating. The one […]

This post is about the power of media. Whether it be videos, social media platforms, or the daily news, our world operates as a product of what we see and read on a daily basis. The ubiquitous media presence plays an undeniable role in establishing the truth we subscribe to each and every day. Sitting […]