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05-28-2017, 10:04 AM
Change.org just got a $30 million investment to expand petitions into real social movements
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Change.org is getting some major support from tech billionaires to create real social movements.*
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million funding round for the site in what he said in a post on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-new-investment-changeorg-global-hub-positive-social-reid-hoffman?published=t) was his largest personal impact investment to date.*
Bill Gates and Y Combinator's Sam Altman are also investing in Change.org in this round, Change.org CEO Ben Rattray said in a blog post (https://www.change.org/l/us/scaling-and-sustaining-change).*
"As a society, we should be doing everything we can to build powerful, easy-to-use civic spaces where upstarts and idealists can effectively challenge entrenched interests. Where people believe their participation makes a real difference. Where every day, in transparent fashion, individual citizens can join forces in highly democratic efforts to make the world a better place," Hoffman wrote in his LinkedIn post (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-new-investment-changeorg-global-hub-positive-social-reid-hoffman?published=t). "That's why I'm making this investment in Change.org."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/27/change-dot-org-reid-hoffman-investment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Change.org is getting some major support from tech billionaires to create real social movements.*
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million funding round for the site in what he said in a post on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-new-investment-changeorg-global-hub-positive-social-reid-hoffman?published=t) was his largest personal impact investment to date.*
Bill Gates and Y Combinator's Sam Altman are also investing in Change.org in this round, Change.org CEO Ben Rattray said in a blog post (https://www.change.org/l/us/scaling-and-sustaining-change).*
"As a society, we should be doing everything we can to build powerful, easy-to-use civic spaces where upstarts and idealists can effectively challenge entrenched interests. Where people believe their participation makes a real difference. Where every day, in transparent fashion, individual citizens can join forces in highly democratic efforts to make the world a better place," Hoffman wrote in his LinkedIn post (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-new-investment-changeorg-global-hub-positive-social-reid-hoffman?published=t). "That's why I'm making this investment in Change.org."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/27/change-dot-org-reid-hoffman-investment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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