Nearly 300,000 people signed her daughter’s petition asking President Obama to grant Sharanda clemency. To help her with starting her new life outside of prison, those supporters raised over $25,000 dollars to help her with everyday expenses.
Today, we announce a major expansion to our platform to further amplify this emerging citizen power: a new suite of fundraising tools. In addition to empowering people to raise their voices to create campaigns for change, people will now be able to use Change.org to raise money to drive those campaigns to victory.
Environment
A GMC Eleganza is the unlikely symbol for Keen’s “Live Monumental” campaign, an initiative to push the U.S. Department of the Interior to designate 5 parks as America’s newest National Monuments.
Food
We our excited to announce that we are partnering with The Huffington Post on its new ‘Reclaim’ campaign to empower people to do something to end food waste. I caught up with Jo Confino, the Executive Editor of Impact and Innovation at The Huffington Post, who has been spearheading this project.
LGBT Rights
President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is creating the country's first national monument to LGBT rights, the Stonewall National Monument in New York City.
