Blog Archives
Common Good Exchange // Nothing But Nets
May 17, 2013 by Danny Porter
This August, Invisible Children is partnering with more than 40 organizations for the Common Good Exchange during the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit. These companies are on forefront of social change and we’re beyond proud to bring them together for an exclusive evening during the Summit. The United Nations Foundation is brining several of their campaigns [...] Read More
Common Good Exchange // The Paradigm Project
May 16, 2013 by Juan Frausto
Three billion people around the world cook meals over open fires, causing families to overuse their resources gathering and purchasing fuel. Ultimately women and children are dying from the effects of smoke inhalation and forests are steadily disappearing as wood is harvested and collected for survival. The end result is also causing greenhouse gas emissions to increase around the world– [...] Read More
Educator Spotlight // Lisa Ellis
May 15, 2013 by Danny Porter
Lisa Ellis teaches Leadership at Ridgeview High School in Columbia, SC. Naturally, this incredible educator (say that five times fast) attended the original Fourth Estate Leadership Summit in 2011. We knew we had to catch up with her and learn more about her experiences at the Summit, and find out what she took away from [...] Read More
Common Good Exchange // RYOT News
May 13, 2013 by Danny Porter
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 [...] Read More
Common Good Exchange // Project 7
May 11, 2013 by Juan Frausto
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 [...] Read More
Common Good Exchange // DoSomething.org
May 8, 2013 by Juan Frausto
Sometimes all you need is a jump start to pursue your dreams. Luckily, this summer, we’re bringing activists from around the world to our Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, providing them with tools to make a difference in the world and in their own communities. Complete with breakout sessions, workshops, new Invisible Children media, and dance [...] Read More
Common Good Exchange // Restore International
May 7, 2013 by Danny Porter
Invisible Children is proud to partner with over 40 unique and innovative social brands at the Common Good Exchange during this year’s Fourth Estate Leadership Summit. One of the organizations we’re partnering with is Restore International. Restore was founded in 2004 by Bob Goff. We could write an entire blog about Bob, but thankfully he’s [...] Read More
Organically digital
February 25, 2013 by Juan Frausto
Disusing the blurring line between organic and digital may be one of my favorite conversational topics (no, really.) See, in college I took a class titled Politics of the Future and in a nutshell, it ruined my life. In a good way. Five books and five papers later, I was left fascinated with the relationship [...] Read More
Light up the streets
September 20, 2012 by Juan Frausto
Darius Twin‘s re-imagination of Los Angeles, CA combines elements of light painting and photography, bringing a new spin to what street art usually looks like. Using long-exposure photography to capture the intricate paintings, he recreates an everyday setting into something that makes you second-guess what is and isn’t real. With the photos’ subjects only existing as the artist creates them and then disappearing [...] Read More
Serving Locally…photos from the ground
April 21, 2012 by Thaddaeus McRae
We are so impressed with all of the community service projects you are sending in. Keep up the incredible work. Our liberty is bound together. Keep sending in your photos to ctn@invisiblechildren.com. Want more? Check out thousands of photos on our CTN live feed at http://www.ctn.kony2012.com
