Dear Causes.com Community, We’re excited to announce that Causes has acquired Votizen, a fellow San Francisco-based tech startup that helps people unlock the power of their social networks for political influence. We’re thrilled to bring together two teams that share a common vision for transforming civic engagement through technology. In the 2012 election cycle, Votizen ...
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 ...
We get some really great, non-traditional perks from working here at Causes. Like helping Operation Smile raise enough money to provide children with life changing surgeries to correct cleft lips and palettes in places like Rwanda and the Philippines. Knowing the work we do every day helps empower ordinary people to make extraordinary change in ...
We hope you’ll join us as Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel hands Dan Sinker a check made out to Young Chicago Authors, and we make a $5,000 donation to Support Young Chicago Authors live on WLS 890AM today at 3PM PST. Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel challenges Twitter impostor A couple weeks ago, Rahm Emanuel (way back when ...
As we continue to explore activists’ use of our platform, I wanted to highlight two causes on opposite sides of the Wisconsin budget conflict. Just a little primer Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker(R) has proposed a bill that would end collective bargaining agreements for all state workers except for Fire, Police and Inspectors. This effort is ...