Blog Updates and inspiration

This spring, Invisible Children’s Citizen team (our in-house political advocacy gurus) have been working together with incredible activists across the country to make sure some key members of Congress, with special positions of influence, stay committed to bringing Joseph Kony to justice and supporting communities targeted by LRA violence. When 12-year-old Ciara Doherty answered our […]

Don’t get us wrong – our two staff writers are perfectly content working out of our San Diego office (they’re both SD natives). When they heard the news that they were traveling to Uganda to visit our Gulu and Kampala offices and tour our programs, though, it’s safe to say they were more than willing […]

Millionaire and pioneering space tourist Dennis Tito dreams big. You could even say his ideas are out of this world. So much so that the 72 year-old has started the first 501(c)3 non-profit aimed at space exploration. According to its website, the Inspiration Mars Foundation believes in the exploration of space as a catalyst for growth, national […]

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 […]

Did the University of Engineering and Design (UTEC) in Lima, Peru just change humanitarian efforts and the marketing process forever? It’s surprising that a university dedicated to innovation would use a billboard to attract talented students when the possibilities of social marketing and interactive design would probably do it way more justice. UTEC sure doesn’t agree, and for this […]

Would you pay 10 dollars to sleep on the street? Faktum Hotel in Gothenberg, Sweden is hoping your answer is yes. The hotel is a project of  Swedish interactive agency Forsman and Bodenfors.  Faktum is comprised of 10 different “rooms” located throughout the city – under bridges, next to a football stadium, in a park – essentially wherever a […]

Meet Jesse. He’s a member of our Engagement Team and he rarely forgoes the opportunity to suit up – more often than not, he’s best-dressed in the office. Credit that to his mom and the online tie borrowing club he’s a member of. But enough about the suit and tie. Let’s get down to the business […]

This past week, we’ve been premiering the exclusive videos taken from our 2012 Holiday Benefit Show featuring Whispertown, The Colourist, White Arrows, and DeVotchKa. The team behind the video capture – SerialBox Presents – also happen to be geniuses at live audio, and are sharing the files with us. Listen to the four live cuts […]

Graphic Designer Kai Krause is changing the world in his own way through his reconstructed map of Africa, with several  non-African countries overlaid within the continent’s borders. His goal is to make a contribution in the fight against immappancy. Krause explains the concept of “immappancy”: “In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there […]

This marks the end of our exclusive video releases with SerialBox Presents. We could lament that it’s over, but let’s instead rejoice in what was – four incredible videos from generous, worldly artists who donated their time to play our 2012 Holiday Benefit Show. Today’s offering is of the headlining act – DeVotchKa. They are […]