Blog Updates and inspiration

Summer is the time for backyard barbecues, sandy shoes, outdoor games, the perfect playlist, and a good book. While we enjoy a near-endless summer in San Diego, the sentiment is not lost — summer is the best time to catch up on all those books we’ve been wanting to read. We can’t pass up an opportunity to hang […]

Crazy as it is to believe, our summer interns have been here for a month already. Even though our interns’ work just began, we are looking for fall interns to carry on the tradition come August. But before we start our interviews, we want to give our applicants out there a look at what an […]

Meet Savannah. After growing up in Houston, graduating high school at 16, getting a degree in Psychology at 20, and getting married at 22, Savannah decided there was only more thing she needed to make her young and already-impressive life complete: an internship with Invisible Children. If you walk through the doors of our San […]

Meet Monica. She’s a self-proclaimed lover of the sun, which makes living in San Diego the perfect fit. More importantly she’s also a self-proclaimed planner, which makes her the perfect fit as our Donor Communications intern. Monica and the rest of the Development team get the opportunity to individually thank and work with our donors and […]

We recently teamed up with Warby Parker to shake up the idea behind a street fair. The idea of hosting an event where organizations and companies that value innovation, social progress, and creativity could come together resulted in the first ever Common Good Urban Market. We invited a few of our friends from San Diego to welcome Warby’s […]

Just this morning, we welcomed a group of students and staff from Franklin College in Indiana who were traveling through Uganda and decided to swing by the Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) office while in Gulu. Obviously everyone can’t just hop on a plane to Uganda, but we thought you might like a peek inside the […]

The year 2013 is just getting started, but it’s shaping up to be a big year for the staff of Invisible Children Uganda (ICU). Whether planning to buy land or become the next Olympic champion, the staff will be busy making this year an exciting one. Here are the expectations of a handful of the […]

I have so much work to do. But I absolutely have to put it all on hold so I can write a blog post (read: write a love letter) about Taylor Swift. My love affair with Taylor begin in 2006 with her song Tim McGraw. Life-changing, I tell you. Since then, I have memorized every lyric […]

Here’s the most important question of the day: have you heard of Dallas Clayton? If so, bravo. If not, I am so honored to be the one to tell you about him. Saying he’s a children’s book author just doesn’t sound like enough of an explanation of what he does. Yes, he writes. Yes, he […]

Sometimes you just need a hug. And sometimes, that hug can start a revolution. It all began with a 21-year-old Team Florida Roadie named Kevo. He had a purple note next to his desk that read “Did you hug the Kevo today?” He then established a Top 12 Target list that consisted of IC staff […]