One year later // KONY 2012 & infographics
As an avid sports fan, I love statistics. I can break down an NBA box score faster than you can Kareem Abdul Jabbar, so when KONY 2012 went viral a year ago this week, I couldn’t help but head straight to the stats. What KONY 2012 accomplished was unprecedented. Most of us know the biggest […]
#KONY2012 told through tweets
March 5th marks the one year anniversary of the release of KONY 2012. Within one week, the film was viewed over 100 million times, making it the most viral video in history. The hashtag #KONY2012 was used 3,290,800 times between February 11th and March 11th. On March 7th alone, the hashtag was used 1,594,812 times. In honor of […]
Invisible Children proudly presents // A Wedding Story
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something red. For the past nine years we’ve known that Invisible Children has the best, most dedicated supporters across the globe, but thanks to newlyweds Jessica (formally Greer) and Daniel Streeter, that fact is now impossible to contest. Jessica and Dan are veterans when it comes to investing in […]
Google’s Year in Review
zeitgeist |ˈtsītˌgīst; ˈzīt-| (noun) the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time Google’s Zeitgeist 2012 is officially out, and it’s everything we hoped it would be and more. They took the mass of Google searches from throughout the year, along with other search […]
MOVE:DC as documented by Instagram
We scoured Instagram for our favorite photos. We’ll be posting them throughout the day.
We’re going to MOVE:DC
Collines, a university student in the Legacy Scholarship Program and the Director of Operations for Hope for Humans in Uganda is well aware of the power that advocacy has to change hearts and expand minds. She was an Invisible Children Roadie for the Frontline and Congo tours in 2011, and while she inspired many with […]
UPDATE // We’re on Team Summer
With heavy hearts we say goodbye to Summer Dale who passed away last Sunday. We were honored to be part of her story. ____________ Summer Dale seems like your average teen: she attends high school, loves animals, and her favorite hobbies are photography, modeling, and horseback riding. But what’s not average about her: she’s a […]
Introducing Alexandra Milton
We work to inspire our generation to fight for what they believe in, and try to ignite social activism in the world’s youth. We love when our supporters show us that our efforts are not in vain. Allow me to introduce Alexandra Milton. A senior at Convent of the Sacred Heart high school in San Francisco, […]
Recap: Jason Russell on Oprah
Our Chief Creative Officer Jason Russell sat down with Oprah for his first on-air interview since March. No question was off-limits. Did you miss the Next Chapter episode? Fear not, we’re recapping it for you with excerpts. Oprah: The purpose of the film [KONY 2012] was what? Jason: It was actually birthed out of anger, […]
MOVE: what we aim to achieve
KONY 2012 showed the world that Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) must be stopped to set a new precedent for international justice and help people in central Africa find peace. In response, world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon made promises to help make it happen. […]