Showing all posts by: Alejandro De La Cruz

JoinStampede campaign tackles student loan debt

joinstampede led a movement to lower student loan interest rates for 30,000 students.
joinstampede led a movement to lower student loan interest rates for 30,000 students.

Q&A with Founder Stephen Dash and his team brought a world-first approach to the way borrowers and lenders interact. Visit joinStampede.com to learn more. In 2012, the student loan crisis reached a boiling point: students across the United States had amassed more than 1 trillion dollars in debt. College students continue to invest in higher ...

Guest Post: Pushing For an End to Gendercide in China

Congressman Chris Smith, Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, and It's a Girl Director Evan Grae Davis hold over 200,000 petition signatures in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC.
Congressman Chris Smith, Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, and It's a Girl Director Evan Grae Davis hold over 200,000 petition signatures in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC.

Evan Grae Davis is the director of the film “It’s A Girl,” a documentary film asking why nearly 200 million women are missing in the world today– killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. Evan is also spearheading an awareness campaign on Causes.com to end gendercide in China and around the world. Evan ...

Earth Day Event Kicks off New Community Garden Grants Program

Since the inaugural Earth Day in 1970, people across the world have celebrated the only home humans know by taking notice of the environmental effect they have on the planet. This year, we decided to do something, too! On April 21, members of the Causes team, along with Kitchen Gardeners International founder Roger Doiron, and representatives ...

Celebrate Earth Day on Causes.com

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

On April 22, people around the world will be celebrating Earth Day in support of greater environmental awareness. On Causes.com, this is an issue that millions of people care about. In the last 12 months, more than 1.6 million people participated in a campaign — taking a pledge, signing a petition, or donating to a ...

Guest Post: A Victory for Elephants

World Wildlife Fund is the world’s leading conservation organization. Author Jan Vertefeuille leads World Wildlife Fund’s campaigning efforts. She has been with WWF for 11 years, working to inspire and mobilize the public to help conserve endangered species around the world. Visit WWF’s cause to learn more. – Alejandro De La Cruz, Causes.com Last month ...

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