From Breakthrough president and CEO Mallika Dutt: Jason Russell and Invisible Children know that a powerful story can change the world. But by characterizing essentially all Ugandans as either war criminals or helpless victims, the massively viral KONY 2012 manages to flatten its subject rather than deepen it. Which is to say: it fails the [...]

March 13, 2012 by Mallika Dutt | Tags: Africa, betty bigombe, homepage, Invisible Children, jason russell, Joseph Kony, kony 2012, storytelling, Uganda | Comments Off

Breakthrough’s I AM THIS LAND contest called on people to make a video on diversity to celebrate our differences.  We spoke to the first runner up, Genevieve Lin, who made the video What Are You? that teaches us to “see that diversity is not about having cookie-cutter identities.” b-listed: Tell us about yourself?/ Your video [...]

March 9, 2011 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-side chat, breakthrough, I AM THIS LAND | Comments Off

Breakthrough’s I AM THIS LAND contest, now calling on people to make a video on diversity to celebrate our differences and win prizes, also wants to share the important work our partners are doing to uplift diversity. Read our interview with Emily May, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Hollaback!, an organization and movement dedicated to ending street harassment [...]

January 6, 2011 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, b-side chat, breakthrough, contest, diversity, Emily May, I AM THIS LAND | Comments Off

Breakthrough’s I AM THIS LAND contest, now calling on people to make a video on diversity to celebrate our differences and win prizes, also wants to share the important work our partners are doing to uplift diversity. Read our interview with Julie Zeilinger, founder of The FBomb.org, a blog/community created for teenage girls who care about their rights [...]

December 14, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, b-side chat, breakthrough, contest, diversity, human rights, I AM THIS LAND, Julie Zeilinger, the Fbomb | Comments Off

Breakthrough’s I AM THIS LAND contest, now calling on people to make a video on diversity to celebrate our differences and win prizes, also wants to share the important work our partners are doing to uplift diversity. Read our interview with Marisa Treviño Publisher/Founder of Latina Lista, which strives to be the premier news site for English-speaking Latinas/os and those [...]

December 8, 2010 by admin | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, contest, diversity, homepage, I AM THIS LAND, Latina Lista, Marisa Treviño | 2 Comments »

Breakthrough had the pleasure of chatting with award-winning filmmaker Onir. He is most notable for directing and co-producing his first film, “My Brother Nikhil.” It was the first mainstream Hindi film specifically addressing homosexuality in the context of human rights and HIV/AIDS. Breakthrough is a proud Co-Producer of a new series of films called “I AM” by Onir [...]

August 23, 2010 by Jitin | Tags: Abhimanyu, Add new tag, Asia Society, b-listed, bollywood, breakthrough, Engendered, Facebook, HIV/AIDS, homepage, homosexuality, human rights, I AM films, I VIEW Film Festival 2010, independent Indian cinema, Juhi Chawla, My Brother Nikhil, Omar, Onir, Rahul Bose, Sanjay Suri, social media, Tribeca Film Center, Twitter, UN Development Program, Yash Raj Film | Comments Off

A young teacher from a modest home in Sweden sent a small donation through a school’s global education fundraiser. Years later, Hilde Back, a Holocaust survivor, discovers that her small act actually changed the lives of hundreds of children in Kenya, by changing the course of one man’s life, Chris Mburu. We were excited to [...]

July 12, 2010 by Priya | Tags: A Small Act, Ban ki-Moon, Bill Gates, Chris Mburu, documentary, education, ethnic violence, genocide, HBO, HBO docs, Hilde Back, Hilde Back Education Fund, Holocaust, homepage, human rights, Jennifer Arden, Kenya, Network for Good, poverty, Sundance Film Festival | 1 Comment »

In an exclusive interview, founder of the Girl Child Network Worldwide, Betty Makoni tells us about her organization, her mission and where she thinks the global women’s rights movement is going.

June 8, 2010 by Annie | Tags: b-listed, b-side chats, Betty Makoni, breakthrough, Child Labor, Girl Child Network, sexual abuse, women's rights, zimbabwe | Comments Off

We had the opportunity to talk to one of the busiest (and youngest) bloggers on the web, Julie Zeilinger, sole founder of the Fbomb, a feminist blog for teenagers. Let us rephrase: while the blog may be run by a teenager and posted from a teenage perspective, the content is relevant for any feminist young [...]

April 8, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: adolescence, b-side chats, breakthrough, Feminism, Feministing, Jezebel, Julie Zeilinger, social media, the Fbomb, under-21 club | Comments Off

In an exclusive interview, Alive and Kicking CEO, Will Prochaska, tells us about how they bring jobs, play and health awareness to countries in Africa.

March 19, 2010 by Annie | Tags: Alive and Kicking, b-listed, b-side chats, breakthrough, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention, homepage, Kenya, Right to Play, Tackle Africa, Will Prochaska, Zambia | Comments Off