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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 ...

Giving Kids a Level Playing Field in Tennessee

Heath Arnold launched a petition that helped push a bill to allow home-schooled kids the chance to play in public schools.
Heath Arnold launched a petition that helped push a bill to allow home-schooled kids the chance to play in public schools.

Last month, Heath Arnold launched a petition on Causes.com that lead to passing a law, Bill 222, which will allow all home-schooled students to participate in public school sports in Tennessee. According to U.S. News, 7.6 million high school students played sports in the 2010-2011 school year. It’s estimated that more than two million students are ...

Success: Cause Leader Receives Apology from Fox News

Click to watch video of Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson apologizing to Pagan and Wiccan communities.
Click to watch video of Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson apologizing to Pagan and Wiccan communities.

We learn something new every day about the people that use Causes.com. From New York to India, the ideas and beliefs shared through our site stretch across a wide spectrum. Last week, we noticed a petition from cause leader Felix Wolfe. He’s an Eclectic Wiccan, which we really didn’t know anything about. [Ed Note: We ...

Cause Leader Saves Live Music in Jacksonville, Florida

Metropolitan Park is home to dozens of concerts each year in the Jacksonville, FL area.
Metropolitan Park is home to dozens of concerts each year in the Jacksonville, FL area.

Cause leader Les Targonski, a production manager for concerts in Jacksonville, Florida, is one of millions of people in the world that enjoys live music every year. Earlier this month, Les learned that a councilman in his city proposed a bill to end ticketed concerts at Metropolitan Park, one of the havens for music in ...

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