Blog Updates and inspiration

Five cities, eleven days, thousands of miles. It’s safe to say being on Warped Tour has cured any signs of the travel bug. To put it simply, it’s hard to imagine what my life will be like after this seven-week tour. One thing is certain – I may be addicted to life on the road. For the […]

School for Schools just announced the winner for their annual essay writing competition. Students were tasked to write about a given topic in 500-1000 words. The scripts were thereafter graded following the Uganda National Examination Board standards to help students become better writers. Fred, a Legacy Scholarship recipient, was the overall winner in the essay […]

This week we’re highlighting our Mobilization programs, which are part of our four-part model. And what could possibly be more fitting than a TedxTalk called How to start a movement? Mobilization is all about getting people involved and in less than three minutes, Derek Sivers explains exactly what you need to do to create a […]

Invisible Children doesn’t stop at documenting atrocities or activating youth or protecting civilians or rehabilitating post-conflict communities. We do it all. And we do it through a four-part model that focuses exclusively on the LRA conflict, addressing it in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. One of the four parts of the comprehensive model is Mobilization. For the past […]

Los Angeles duo Carousel are the next band confirmed to play this August’s 2013 Fourth Estate Summit. The twosome began creating music together in late 2011 and have been sharing their pop ways with the world since. They’ve been featured in several commercials and played live gigs across the nation, and we couldn’t be more […]

For Gulu Secondary School and Lacor Secondary School, winning the annual inter-school volleyball tournament in March this year was not the end. In fact, it was more like the beginning of their journey to victory. These two Gulu District victor teams had to defend their titles by facing Pader’s winning teams: the girls from Pajule […]

[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.] It’s officially summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, which is lovely, but it honestly feels […]

Baratunde Thurston is a man connected. In 2012 alone, the bestselling author, comedian, and CEO had a daily average of 4 Facebook posts, 32 Tweets, 163 Gmail conversations and 10 SMS threads. Collectively that’s 81,194 individual conversations or posts over the course of 365 days. A bit of technological gluttony by modest standards. Baratunde is not […]

Nina Fernandes: electronic analyst and repair guru… political advocate…We think we’ve discovered what ticks in this inspiring 21-year old, and that’s her unique motivation to fix a broken system. Nina is an Electrical and Computer Engineering student and president of the Invisible Children club at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. When she isn’t taking […]

We are so excited for the Common Good Exchange at the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit this August. The Gr818ERS (pronounced “great one-eighters”) are one of the organizations I’m most excited to see, among 40 other organizations and brands that will be there. The Common Good Exchange will give Summit attendees the opportunity to connect and learn from the […]