Blog Updates and inspiration

The newest addition to our Common Good Exchange at this August’s 2013 Fourth Estate Summit is one we’re all pretty excited about. Human Rights Campaign has been a favorite of ours for years now, and we couldn’t be happier about their rise to global recognition with their latest viral campaign. Human Rights Campaign (HRC) advocates […]

It’s been a quarter of a year since the last time an LRA security report was released. We know, time flies. Co-produced by The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative and Invisible Children, the January – March 2013 Quarterly Security Brief analyzes patterns in LRA activity in the first three months of this year. The data is derived […]

Yes, you read that right. An actual Emmy. Meet Cameron Woodward (handsome fellow on the right) and Brandon Tauszik (handsome fellow on the left), two Invisible Children alumni, currently heading up video production company Sprinkle Lab. Like anyone else, we at Invisible Children love name-dropping and bragging about our friends, so we especially love it […]

It’s happened yet again. I’ve watched a TedxTalk that has made the “Official List of Maryam’s Favorite TedxTalks Of All Time”… Margaret Heffernan, former CEO of five different businesses, delivers a talk called Dare to disagree. In it, she argues that good disagreement is essential to progress. She starts her talk by exploring the story […]

It has been confirmed that at least 16 people were killed in Central African Republic (CAR) last week. The unidentified assailants, suspected to be LRA, killed six civilians and abducted an additional 12. The civilians then killed four of the attackers in self-defense. The assailants went on to kill six more, decapitating the victims in a reprisal […]

Brand new Belgian band I will, I swear first caught our attention when they released their video for “Long Days,” a cinematic song laced with bittersweet sentiments. We’ve only fallen more in love with Fien’s delicate vocals and the patient arrangements of these songs as we proudly premiere their sophomore release “Sleep,” a climactic piece […]

A few months back, Blindfold Magazine tasked me with the job of writing an article about what it’s like to work at Invisible Children. I’ve been here three years in about twenty different roles (this is hyperbole: I think I’ve had about six, though), and the idea of trying to encapsulate the experience into a […]

Ciril Jazbec is a man with a story to shoot. As an independent freelance photographer, Jazbec takes his craft around the globe to snap photos that cultivate “gratitude, solidarity, and respect.” Jazbec recently pointed his lens in Kamapla to curate a series entitled “Kampala Rising,” capturing Uganda’s modern youth culture. He calls this generation “citizens of the world,” and credits their progressiveness with […]

In the words of Jeffrey Gettleman, “Africa is in the midst of an epic elephant slaughter.” In a report released last week, Invisible Children and our partners at The Enough Project and The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative offered a similar sentiment. The report, entitled “Kony’s Ivory: How Elephant Poaching in Congo Helps Support the Lord’s Resistance Army“, focuses solely on […]

[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.] Happy Yeezus week, y’all. We pulled ourselves away from 1) listening to the new Kanye […]