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Today as citizens of the world, we face a daunting array of social and environmental problems ranging from health care and civil rights to global warming and economic inequality. For each of these issues, whether local or global in scope, there are millions of people who care passionately about working toward a solution but have no way of connecting with each other to advance a common goal.

Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects likeminded people, whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to address the issues they care about.

To augment the power of the grassroots networks that develop through Change.org, we help connect these networks to the many nonprofit organizations that are already working to advance worthy causes around the world - over 1 million in total. We facilitate dialogue and collaboration by creating a social network around each nonprofit, thereby allowing people to participate in ways never before possible - by posting ideas and suggestions, engaging in direct dialogue, and organizing communities of donors, volunteer events, and rallies.

What we are proposing, in short, is a fundamental change in the way people engage in social issues. We hope you'll join us in transforming this vision into reality.

Change.org was conceived by Ben Rattray in the summer of 2005. With a friend from Stanford, Mark Dimas, and with the support of a founding team of Darren Haas, Rajiv Gupta, and Adam Cheyer, Change.org was finally launched in February 2007.

Over the past 18 months we've received an enormous amount of support and advice from literally hundreds of people. We'd like to give special thanks to a small set of these people, without whose work and support we could not have come this far.

Lucian Slatineanu
Nate Schuett
Alex Steed
Walter Seepersad
Brett Hudson
Moritz Stefaner
Evan Henshaw-Plath
TSR
Martin Davis
Josh Becker
Trygve Duryea
Prashant Rajvaidya
Blake Walker
Ron Palmeri
Nick Allen
Lina Srivastava
Tem Bendapudi
Andrea Fung
Zack Rattray
Matin Sedigh
Pooja Agarwal
Nick Protti
The Engine Yard Team
The Rattray Family
The Dimas and Smethurst Families
The Stanford Community Managers: Emily Warren, Jonathan Phua, Kiyana Junea Harris, Quinn Miller-Bedell, Susan Rodriguez, Charmaine Hui Ying Peck