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The Ideas for Change in America competition was created in response to Barack Obama's call
for increased citizen involvement in government. The final round of voting began on January
5 and is comprised of the top 3 rated ideas from each of the 30 issues in the first round of
the competition, which collectively received more than 250,000 votes.
The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on
January 16th at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, co-hosted by the Case
Foundation. At the event we will also announce the launch of a national advocacy campaign
behind each idea in collaboration with our nonprofit partners to turn each idea into actual policy.
For more information about the competition, click here »
With the long term scarcity of oil resources, America will need to change the way it powers its transportation system. The current dependence on individual car ownership, heavy commuting and air travel are not sustainable. Meanwhile, rail service is proven to offer a...
Health Care is a fundamental human right. No one should have sell their house to pay for their mother's cancer. No one should have to choose between food and medicine. Free basic health care for all! Why? 1) Its the most efficient approach 2) It works.&...
Our planet, our media, our social interactions, our homes all suffer from the epidemic of inter-personal violence and warfare that plagues America. With the establishment of a Department of Peace and Non-Violence, with a respected Secretary of Peace in the Presi...
The Obama Administration needs to lead our country in developing and implementing a National Strategy for Sustainability. With only 5% of the world's population, the US consumes 1/4 of the natural resources. Meanwhile humanity uses 30% more of the earth's bio-capac...
All people should be allowed equal rights when it comes to civil marriage no matter the sexual orientation or gender identity of the spouses. This is the ultimate civil rights battle of our time. We need to make sure our friends, brothers, sisters, mothers and father...
Forgive Student Loans! ^ The American middle and lower classes are crippled under the weight of educational debt; in these unusual times, as we bail out lenders and executives, we encourage the Obama administration to forgive student loans, provid...
Every four years Americans scramble to find the time to slip away from work or school or family responsibilities to go vote for a new president. Too many of us must wait until work ends or clock out for the length of time needed thus losing wages. With lo...
Al Gore has made it his mission to get the U.S. electrical grid off of carbon-based fuel (coal, oil, etc.) in the next ten years. Make this the centerpiece of a national energy plan.
The inevitable economic stimulus package proposed by the new administration should be used to start solving our economic and climate crises simultaneously - putting Americans back to work with Green Jobs that rebuild our nation's infrastructure using clean technology...
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) poses the greatest threat to local and sustainable agriculture since the Nixon administration. NAIS was originally designed to give huge corporations help with export markets. It will not stop animal disease or impro...
The Obama administration should use the teachings and words of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Ghandi, and Reverend James Lawson, to develop a nonviolent strategy that could be applied immediately in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East in order to ...
Thousands of Americans and people from the around the world are asking the Obamas to lead by example on climate change, health policy, economic self-reliance, food security, and energy independence by replanting an organic food garden at the White House with the pro...
America needs high speed bullet trains that travel between major metropolitan cities. In Califonria we recently passed a proposition to connect SF and LA with a bullet train that can get a person from one city to the next in three-four hours. With that kind of commut...
Obama says, "Empathy strikes me as the most important quality that we need in America and around the world.” Mutual understanding and empathy result in effective resolution of conflicts, bridging of ideological divides, and wise use of our resources. Practical,...
It is far too dangerous to keep global nuclear disarmament on the back burner. Nuclear weapons pose the most immediate, overwhelming and devastating threat imaginable to our country and to civilization. The only way to assure that these weapons are n...
An 1886 Supreme Court clerk's headnotes misreading (Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad) applied the 14th Amendment to corporations, extending to them all the rights, but none of the responsibilities, of human persons. The result has been...
Require USDA to facilitate healthful plant-based school lunch options as a means of promoting public health, environmental quality, and animal rights.
1 in 3 women will be sexually assaulted and/or raped during her lifetime. Sexual violence is an EPIDEMIC that is preventable, and our government and country need to get serious about ending it. Rape crisis centers and state coalitions against sexual assau...
Despite Sen. Barack Obama's overwhelming win in the 2008 Presidential Election, gay rights suffered major setbacks this year, with marriage rights being rescinded in California, adoption by LGBT couples being banned in Arkansas, and constitutional amendments banning ...
The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, makes it so that states and the Federal Government need not recognize same sex marriages that are performed in states where the practice is legal. We have a Full Faith and Credit Clause in our Constitution which is directly...
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The Case Foundation, a partner of Change.org, is running a campaign called "Change Begins With Me," which
calls on citizens across the country to get involved by answering the question: how will YOU commit to
bringing about change in your neighborhood, your community or your nation?
The winner will receive 2 tickets to the Presidential Inauguration and the Hawaii Inaugural Ball as well
as flight and hotel accommodations in Washington, DC.
No idea is too big or too small. Everyone has a role to play.
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