Tonight, December 14^th, the Invisible Children community celebrates the UNBELIEVABLE.

For as long as I can remember, we at Invisible Children have had a new goal every six months…for the last 8 years. That’s a lot of goals. They’re always a little different, whether focused on Advocacy, Awareness, or Fundraising. But the one thing they ALL have in common, is that they ALL seem Impossible to achieve. If it’s NOT impossible, we are not interested in doing it.

I’ve always believed that if you shoot for the Impossible and don’t get it, you land on Unbelievable; if you fall from Unbelievable, you land on Extraordinary; below Extraordinary is Awesome.  So, at worst… you’re Awesome.

These are just a few of the Impossible Invisible Children goals you’ve supported us through:

1. Surrounding Oprah’s studio until she put us on her show, LIVE.

2. Getting President Obama to sign a Bill & send advisory troops to Uganda.

3. Raise $2M in 100 days.

When we gathered the interns, volunteers, and roadies & pitched the $2M goal back in August, we understood the ridiculous challenge we were undertaking—I mean, we were facing the collapse of the global economy, revolutions around the world & polarizing politics.

And we did not reach the Impossible $2M goal; but we raised an Unbelievable amount of money: $1.7M. That is the most we’ve ever raised in a fall campaign. And that is something to celebrate.

We know that lots of teams and individuals are still fundraising, so the Frontline fundraising site will remain up through January. We encourage you to keep going. All the money that is donated to the Frontline pages will still go towards the Protection Plan.

We applaud each of you who tweeted, donated, purchased a FREE TIMMY shirt or spent way too much time watching the Livestream. We shout and scream for all you Roadies, Movement interns, non-Movement interns, Team Leaders, Road Managers, host-homes, teachers, principals, club presidents, bands, and Fourth Estate Members who have sacrificed and pushed waaaaay beyond what you ever thought you were capable of.

And then there’s Timmy….that New Zealander who voluntarily imprisoned himself for 8 days and 9 hours. This week he more-than-proved his limitless dedication to ending this war.

But of course the biggest thing we celebrate is the success of the Protection Plan in Central Africa: We have seen multiple defections because the early-warning radio network is working. The LRA Crisis Tracker is breaking technological ground, and the Rehabilitation Center in Congo is up and running. And now YOU have raised $1.7M to make it even more effective.

We love you. We are grateful.

Love,

Jason

You watched us reach the first million.  This week, we are back on Livestream as we attack our goal of $2 million.

On today’s schedule:

• 10:00 – 11:00am: New England
• 11:00 – 12:00pm: Middle America
• 2:00 – 3:00pm: Team Interns (Natalie, Desiree, Jocelyn, Rosa)
• 3:00 – 4:00pm: Texas
• 4:00 – 5:00pm: Mountain West

Remember, all times are PST.

Get ready.  There are nine days left in the campaign, and you never know what we’ll be pulling out.

Stay tuned.

Literally moments ago, we received word that a donor has put in $25,000 to be part of our newest matching campaign beginning tonight at midnight PST.

For every dollar that is donated on your/your team’s fundraising page, it will be doubled until the $25,000 runs out.  Last matching campaign was done in less than 36 hours; this will be gone quicker.

This is certainly the time to get your money in if you have been holding onto it – for every $100 donated, you will qualify to win an insane prize.  A trip, perhaps.  Plus it will be matched until the $25,000 is gone.

It will all go down on our Livestream from 3 PM until midnight PST on Friday, December 2.

Frontline Fundraisers, it is time.  $1 million by the end of tomorrow.  Matching begins at midnight tonight.

This is real.  Just this morning, we had $31,017.84 left in the matching campaign.  Now, after an out-of-nowhere dropping of a $15,000 donation, we have only $7,872 left to be matched.

There will be more information to come on the mystery fundraiser.

If you planned on getting your money in, you can see how quickly the matching is going.  Take to the streets and send your money in to be matched before it’s all gone.

Today marks the launch of the Frontline Fundraising matching campaign.  An anonymous donor will be matching all donations made online or sent in to the office until the $100,000 is gone.

So, anything that gets donated will be matched on your fundraising page marked as a “matching grant.”

This money is going to go quickly – there’s a trip to Uganda on the line.  The team or individual that has raised the most amount of money on their fundraising page from November 2 – November 16 will receive an all-expense paid trip to Uganda to see everything that our fundraising efforts go to in northern Uganda.

To say that the Uganda trip is the trip of a lifetime would be doing it an incredible disservice.  We put together a short video from a former Uganda trip winner/current Regional Manager Sarah Chaplin to attempt to explain how insane your life will become if you win the trip we will be giving away next Wednesday.

Watch it, realize your dream is to go to Uganda, and get your fundraising on.

People, get excited because starting this Thursday, we will be launching a matching campaign for our current Frontline Fundraising.

That’s right. That means for every dollar you send in, an anonymous funder is going to match it. So if you happen to send in $5000, it automatically become $10,000.

Essentially, your money is worth twice what it normally is; in this economy, this is clearly something to flip out about.

This money will go quickly- once we hit $100,000 dollars the campaign will end. So plan your events and plan to get your money in so that it get’s matched on your fundraising page.