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Washington Post http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-01-23/business/35440863_1_online-petition-bank-fees-campaigns
Venture Beat http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/30/startup-culture-changemakers/
US News and World Report http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/09/07/how-changeorg-is-mastering-the-science-of-micro-activism

Change.org alternatives

  • iPetitions

  • Free online petitions

    tags: online-petition petitions
  • SumOfUs

  • SumOfUs is a movement of consumers, workers and shareholders speaking with one voice to counterbalance the growing power of large corporations. Join us on our journey as we seek to make the world a better place for ourselves, our children and all who share our planet.

    tags: crowdfunding fundraising non-profit funding campaigning
  • Causes

  • Causes is platform for activism. It enables users to create grassroots groups that take action on a social issue or support a specific non-profit organization.

    tags: fundraising funding campaigning social-campaigning
  • Civist

  • With Civist you create online-petitions directly in WordPress, raise funds and build strong supporter networks. To do so, you simply install a WordPress plugin and register with Civist in three simple steps. After that, you are ready to publish your first petition and find supporters for your cause.

    tags: activism activist activist-blogger donate donate-widget
  • MoveOn.Org

  • WAYS TO HELP :

    tags: social-campaigning online-petiton
  • Sincerely, Me

  • Sincerely, Me is an alternative to petitions. Instead of simply putting a name on a list, Sincerely, Me empower individuals to find and share their own messages - sending them directly to those own matter.

    tags: Discontinued politics petitions
  • Upworthy.com

  • At best, things online are usually either awesome or meaningful, but everything on Upworthy.com has a little of both. Sensational and substantial. Entertaining and enlightening. Shocking and significant.

    tags: campaigning social-campaigning online-petition
  • AVAAZ.ORG

  • Avaaz—meaning "voice" in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages—launched in 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.

    tags: decision citizenship value volunteering democracy
  • Build Quorum

  • It's Congress's job to represent the American public, and in order to do that they need to hear from us. Our representatives hear from lobbyists all the time - they drop by their offices, have their personal cell phone numbers etc. The tools we build are designed to give the people they're actually representing that same level of access.

    tags: non-profit politics government campaigning law
  • End Crowd

  • ENDcrowd.com creates a sustainable ecosystem for change by providing a place where nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, for-profits and individuals can come together to innovate and participate. Crowdfunding enables visionary people with excellent ideas to raise money for their projects by collecting funds from backers through a web-based system. ENDcrowd focuses specifically on empowering organizations and individuals to fund campaigns that create tangible results in the fight to end human slavery. Here at ENDcrowd, people come together to engage with each other, raise awareness, and effect real change in the world. »

    tags: anti-human-trafficking crowdfunding non-profit
  • Pledgie

  • Pledgie is a donation website. The site allows anyone to make a pledge for just about any type of cause, but spamming and scamming can occur. To avoid this, users have the ability to report these pledges. The donations are received through the user's PayPal account. Causes can have a set ending time and users can set the money goal for the pledge. The goal may also be left empty. Anyone can comment on a cause whether they have donated or not, and the pledge owner can respond to these comments, but not remove them. »

    tags: donation funding pledge