Yet another website for me to log into? Another place to blog and check messages? A more useful service would connect the work we already do on our own sites and blogs. Give us meaningful hooks and tags to plant on our end to build a bridge between all of our ideas and projects. Open data like open source.

If you want platform-independent comments, connections, and collaborations, then send a note to me through my website with your ideas. Tell me who has started this work or how you think it should be done. Tell me why it’ll be revolutionary. http://theCoup.org

It has more information on (and from) nonpfofits.
It lets you choose exactly what you want to accomplish (preserve an acre of the rainforest, make a blind person see, etc.).
It has better tools for giving.
It has a much lower transaction cost than any of the other donation portals. Why would I want change.org to take 4.5% of my donation!

No surprise; the people behind it include an impressive list of leaders from the social sector (see the Board of Advisors).

VolunteerSolutions is already ahead in a sense b/c the volunteer opps. on the site are “quality” in that they’ve been vetted by a local volunteer center…now to put all the pieces together…

The social cause space it getting a lot of attention, which is nothing but positive. I hope this venture really takes off.

Our soon to be launched application takes a different approach to raising funds for non-profits by rewarding customer generated referrals to small-to-medium service businesses with money to donate to non-profits.

We are also hoping to have a big impact in the social marketing space, and a greatly encouraged by others providing connections and exposure to causes people care about. Rock On Change.org!

http://www.footstops.com

It’s all non profit and has been live for about a month. January’s revune went to COPE http://www.dire...g/ngo.cfm?id=46

http://www.donorschoose.org

They make every dollar accountable and seem to drill down on what’s important by allowing teachers, for example, pitch for limited grants (like $500) for specific projects. What they return to the donors after watching the presentation last night is amazing – a full report complete with ‘thank you’ cards from the kids. Donors Choose calls it micro-philanthropy. Seems like a great trend for giving.

We should all connect – we donate a lot of space on our platform for companies pushing social change, we’re big fans of supporting that stuff

That said, I’m inclined to expect greater results from really focused campaigns with specific metrics and results. It’s difficult to get even the most dedicated activist to DO something if there is no clear goal. We struggled with this in my previous job at Participant Productions. Lawrence Bender, the producer of An Inconvenient Truth is working on a campaign to get every American household to purchase on Compact Florescent light bulb. 100 million bulbs = $4 billion in energy savings. It’s simple, it’s tangible and everyone can do one small thing to make a big difference. Doesn’t hurt to have WalMart behind it.

Anyway, I think really targeted campaigns are more effective and I’d like to see more energy being put into those than another social network.

Either way, very cool.

Ok, jokes aside, some of them definitely are positions supported by the left. The great thing is that it’s called Change.org and YOU can add your own elements of change.

Also, I think your statement was unjustly biased. I think most of the causes are without political bias save a few of the liberal ones (stem cell research, universal health care, stop the war in iraq, protecting the womens right to choose).

I am a little confused by the ‘blogs’ feature. I can see its basically… anything, news or whatever. Maybe I’m just confused by calling it ‘blogs’, but then again I can’t think of a better word either.

Nicely done! I hope it encourages awareness and change!