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Free Pussy Riot: Legal Defense Fund is Next Phase

Cause leader Robert Lieber delivered Free Pussy Riot petitions from Causes.com to the Russian consulate in New York City.
Cause leader Robert Lieber delivered Free Pussy Riot petitions from Causes.com to the Russian consulate in New York City.

Cause leader Robert Lieber helped craft a petition on Causes.com asking for the release of Pussy Riot, the Punk Rock feminist art collective in Russia that were charged with hooliganism in March of this year after protesting at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. “It was shortly after their arrest in March. I started working ...

Stampeding Against the Omak Suicide Horse Race

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In July, cause leader Jo Deibel launched a petition on her Causes.com page demanding for the halt of the Omak Suicide Horse Race — a 70-year-old racing tradition held in Omak, Washington where horses and riders jettison down a dangerously steep slope. In 2004, three horses died in the race and 21 total have perished ...

A New Kind of Cause: Fundraising cHAIRity

Today’s post is from Sean Vora, a Causes activist. We met Sean at a Causes meet-up here in San Francisco and were immediately inspired by his energy and excitement for his cause, and by the innovation (and alliteration) he’s bringing to the platform. To watch the fundraiser in action, we’ll bring you a few posts ...

Smash Mouth takes on a dare for St. Jude’s

The rock band Smash Mouth, is bringing something new to Causes…eggs. Everyday at Causes we come across something really exciting, from thriving communities to people putting a new twist on fundraising. That’s why we build Causes.com, to give everyone the tools to have an impact, and have fun doing it. Yesterday we found the cause, ...

Causes Launches New Flagship Communities

Over the past four years Causes has grown into a tremendous and vibrant platform of over 160 million installed users, 500,000 cause communities, and over 17,000 nonprofit partners. With all this activity it is easy to lose track of why we got into this business, to help people connect and support the causes and nonprofits ...

How have you used Causes to create an impact in your community?

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