Noting that education is "shockingly underplayed" as an election issue, an advocacy group kicked off its "Don't Forget Ed!" campaign with an installation on the National Mall to illustrate the country's drop-out rate: 857 desks for the 857 kids who drop out of high school every hour of every school day. In a savvy note, the College Board's petition urges the candidates to offer "real, tangible solutions," and "not just the same old platitudes."

Nuns On the Bus, an activist group of nuns on a nine-state tour, stopped in Paul Ryan's hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin to speak out gently but firmly against his budget cuts, and offer their own Faithful Budget. Beautiful.

Following the success of Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" campaign, three grad students got excited about using crowdsourcing to address global conflicts. At Kickstriker, you can fund direct solutions: Tibetan warrior monks, or the Panopticopter, "a better weaponized drone," or the Heritage Foundation's Mobile Black Site "for interrogators on the go," or sending Blackwater forces to kill Joseph Kony. Alas, the folks at Invisible Children are not amused by the parody (yes, it is).