The Jane Doze to play Fourth Estate Summit
We’re excited to announce the next performers confirmed to play the Fourth Estate Summit this August. The Jane Doze are a familiar face to people who attended our last event MOVE:DC where they played to over 8,000 people. Currently, they’re preparing their next set of floorfillers for our summer social justice conference in Los Angeles. […]
A WASH story
Akello Agnes walks down a narrow dirt path leading away from the clearing where she lives. In less than a minute she comes across a borehole, and her 4-year-old son Tony jumps up and down, smiling, as he demonstrates how to pump water from the borehole built by Invisible Children Uganda and partners charity:water and […]
Monday Mini Mixtape: mayTWO
No time to waste this week. Here are nine sounds of brilliance to soundtrack your second week of May. Launch the mix on Soundcloud [HERE] or click below: 01. TRULS – “Out of Yourself” :: My love for pop falsetto is rampant, especially in the summer. This track is massive. 02. SUVI – “Bleeding For […]
Educator Spotlight // Ashley Platé
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 […]
Common Good Exchange // RYOT News
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 […]
Common Good Exchange // LiNK
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 […]
Common Good Exchange // Project 7
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 […]
Educator Spotlight // Carlie Frye
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 […]
Common Good Exchange // Imagination Foundation
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 […]
Common Good Exchange: An interview with Pencils of Promise
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 […]