Blog Updates and inspiration

Meet Ashley Platé. She’s a high school English teacher hailing from Clermont, FL. She attended the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit in 2011 and hasn’t been the same since. We recently caught up with her to find out what changed after attending the Summit. Why is attending the Fourth Estate Summit valuable for educators? You can’t […]

This August, during the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, more than 40 organizations will join Invisible Children for the Common Good Exchange in Los Angeles. The event is a unique opportunity for participants to engage with and learn from some of the most important organizations in the world. One the organizations that we’re proud to partner with is […]

This August, Invisible Children is proud to partner with more than 40 organizations for the Common Good Exchange. This unique event will take place during the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit in Los Angeles and will be an incredible opportunity for participants to engage with some of the top brands in the non-profit industry, learn about various causes, and discover […]

Over the past few years, social entrepreneurship has elevated the standards for commerce and sustainability. With varying models, many social organizations base there work on a 1 for 1 model – selling goods and investing proceeds back into communities. Taking an amplified approach to the 1 for 1 model, our friends at Project 7 invest proceeds from each of its sold products into […]

Carlie Frye, an English and Religious Studies teacher at San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno, CA is joining us this summer at our Fourth Estate Leadership Summit. She is one of several hundred educators that are attending the four-day event to discuss the future of learning, hear from leaders in the field, and help Invisible […]

Born out of the phenomenal global response to the Caine’s Arcade short film, the Imagination Foundation was established to find, foster, and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in kids. Their goal is to give kids the tools to build the things they imagine, and to imagine the world they can build. And that is precisely what Imagination Foundation is […]

A woman prepares posho, a local dish made with dried, crushed corn.

The number of organizations participating in the Common Good Exchange at the Fourth Estate Summit this summer is almost as daunting as the quality of their work. We’re hosting the first event to ever convene all of these companies for good under one (quite large) roof, and the excitement about that fact is ever-increasing. Pencils […]

Kristen applied for our Fourth Estate Summit and didn’t have enough money saved up to cover her costs. So she punched apathy in the face and took to Facebook, proceeding to raise the funds she needed within 24 hours. We love a go-getter almost as much as we love the generosity of family and friends. […]

Photographer Peter Menzel and his wife, writer Faith D’Alusio, were hungry to learn how the rest of the world eats. So they took it upon themselves to find out. The couple set out to on a trip around the world, traveling to 24 different countries. Throughout their travels they shopped, cooked, and ate with 30 […]