Reblog // NPR and “The ‘KONY 2012’ effect”
Over the weekend, our friends over at National Public Radio (NPR) wrote a piece on us entitled “The ‘KONY 2012’ Effect: Recovering from a Viral Sensation.” As we’ve said before and we’ll say again, we love NPR. So, we really appreciated their thoughtful article on us. But we wanted to quickly correct two errors in the […]
Reblog // When trying to spur change, ‘the greatest sin is boring’
The following is reblogged from Laurie Goering with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. // With efforts to curb climate change bogged down by virtually every mistake in the book – messages delivered in impenetrable jargon, no clear way for individuals to take action, a focus on doomsday scenarios – campaigners might take some lessons from Ben Keesey. He’s […]
Joseph Kony Is Back In The News. Do Teenagers Still Care? A Response to NPR
Last week NPR released a story called “Kony’s Back in the News. Do Teenagers Still Care?”. NPR is a very a highly revered news outlet in the Invisible Children office. Odds are, if you walk past any of us with our headphones on, we’re listening to our favorite NPR podcast (S/O: Wait, Wait Don’t Tell […]
Supporter Spotlight // Optimal Performance Training
I don’t spend a lot of my time, or for that matter any of my time, perusing inspirational-gym-videos on the Internet. However, if they all turned out to be as motivating and beautiful as Optimal Performance Training‘s newest video, I would definitely need to rethink my video watching schedule. (read as: less pug videos) Enter Joey Bellus […]
Thank you cards are boring: KONY 2012 two-year anniversary
Thank you cards. Often boring to write, occasionally boring to receive, but usually a necessary part of human interaction. Two years ago today we started a campaign called KONY 2012. It was an experiment to see if the world was ready to unite and speak out against the horrific and unseen crimes of Joseph Kony […]
An IC Fantasy Football update from the only girl in the league
Invisible Children is a pretty rad place to work. Besides the incredibly rewarding (intense, exhausting) work we do to reach our goal of #zeroLRA, we have an incredibly innovative office culture that rejuvenates our brains. Dress up days, 4 o’clock Fridays, random employee appreciation days, dance breaks during lunch, the IC running club, and for the […]
M.I.A. Interview on NPR | “I can be in the same category as Jacob”
“I put people on the map that never seen a map.” – M.I.A. Today, we woke up to a fascinating interview on NPR with a brilliant artist who constantly challenges and inspires us – M.I.A. In it, she discusses the realities of being a refugee of war from Sri Lanka in London, the perspective of now having a voice in […]
The 5 times Joseph Kony was almost captured
Sign up to fundraise for programs that dismantle Joseph Kony’s army from within Over the past two weeks, two high-profile articles have come out revolving around counter-LRA operations in central and East Africa. The New Yorker’s “How a Texas Philanthropist Helped Fund the Hunt for Joseph Kony” and The Washington Post’s “Kony 2013: U.S. quietly […]
8 things you didn’t know about Joseph Kony
For the past 27 years, rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have been killing, mutilating, raping, and displacing innocent civilians in central and East Africa. Kony abducts men and young boys and brainwashes them into fighting in his army and abducts women and young girls to be used as sex slaves. Here are […]
Intern spotlight // Corporate Engagement
Meet Tyler. After graduating from Arizona State University, working at a nonprofit in Ireland, and spending three years with the American Cancer Society, Tyler was an ideal addition to the Development Team as our Corporate Engagement Intern. As a nonprofit-loving people-person, Tyler gets the opportunity to rub elbows (over the phone, at least) with big […]