Blog for Change

I’m excited to announce that as of this week we’re starting to hire bloggers for our forthcoming social action blog network. We’ve been working on developing and designing the framework for this network for the past several months and can’t wait to start building the blogging team that will bring it to life.

I’ll write more about our vision for this network as we get closer to launch, but in the meantime we encourage anyone passionate about and interested in regularly blogging on a particular issue to apply. For more information, please check out www.change.org/bloggers. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Since announcing our search for a managing editor to oversee the upcoming launch of our social action blog network, we’ve been overwhelmed with responses – and received a total of 412 applications to date. This flood of interest is a great indication of the enthusiasm for the next version of Change.org, which I’m becoming more excited about by the day. The number and quality of the applications guarantees that we’ll have an amazing managing editor to run the network and bodes well for recruiting a team of bloggers (more on that later).

The only downside with this level of interest is that we have to say “no” to 411 people. This is no fun, particularly because of the quality of the applicants and the fact that I can imagine a number of them being great at the position. (It’s also not a great recipe for being liked.) But the best we can be is honest in thanking everyone for their interest and expressing our disappointment that we can’t hire more than one person. We’re also hoping that some will consider joining the Change.org team of bloggers, which I’ll write about in another post soon…teen shower orgasm
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Conference season is in full effect, and that means three things – trains, planes, and automobiles.

Over the past month I’ve used just about every means of transportation imaginable (and more SuperShuttle rides than I ever want to take again) to travel through 5 different cities and speak at a half dozen conferences ranging from the Wharton Business Technology Conference in Philadelphia to the Politics Online Conference in Washington, DC to the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans. To top it off, last night I touched down in San Diego for the International Conference on Fundraising, where I speak tomorrow.

It’s been a whirlwind tour, particularly for someone who works out of his apartment and for whom the longest trip of the day is normally to the corner burrito stand. (Yes, we all still work out of our respective apartments in true start-up fashion.)

I’ve had a great time in each city, and talking with others has helped me hone and lay the groundwork for the next version of Change.org, which I’ll write more about later. But the thing I’ve enjoyed the most about each of the conferences I’ve attended is the sense of community they provide among the loose network of social activists across the country each taking a unique approach to social change.

When starting your own venture it’s easy to be dead focused on your work to the exclusion of the outside world (indeed, at the exclusion of everything – including sleep). But the really exciting thing about the social entrepreneurship space we’re working in are the number of other people doing awesome work on related or complimentary projects, which help provide fodder for thought and inspiration for action. And while email, blogs, and phone calls can help to connect you to others to talk about their vision, nothing substitutes for seeing people in the flesh and blood. Conferences enable you to do this at scale, and to simultaneously help build a sense of real community among otherwise disconnected people and projects.

I’m not sure how much longer I can keep up with this travel schedule, but the conferences I’ve attended this past month have made me feel connected to a much broader movement of social activists than I’ve ever felt before, and it’s an awesome thing to be a part of.

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Tomorrow is primary election day here in California, as it is in 23 other states across the country. While elections are always an important time to reflect on the past and decide how to move our country forward, it seems that this election represents a particularly historic moment.

Today America faces unprecedented challenges both home and abroad, which for the past decade our political system has been unable or unwilling to address: inaccessible health care, failing schools, an energy crisis, economic inequality, and global instability.

But in the face of these ominous problems, this election offers Americans the rare chance to take the first step toward choosing a leader who can transcend the partisanship, pettiness, and special interest politicking that has prevented us from overcoming these challenges.

The excitement surrounding this election cycle is palpably greater than I’ve ever experienced, seeming to equal the importance of the hour. Over the past few weeks I’ve seen more than a dozen friends and family members, traditionally indifferent to politics, become engaged as never before. I’ve been affected as well. I normally take an emotionally detached view of electoral politics, having difficulty becoming too excited about any candidate because of the slew of compromises and concessions each has to make to competing interest groups to become “electable.”

But this election is different. Because of the gravity of what’s at stake, the unique nature of the candidates, and the sense that the country is ready for a shift in political culture, there’s a sense that transcendence from traditional political gridlock is possible. And I’m busting at the seams to get to the polls and participate in the process of helping to shape our country’s future for the better.

To encourage friends and family to affirm their commitment to vote and spread the message to friends, I’ve started an action called “Vote for America’s Future.” It doesn’t support any specific candidate, but asks people to make a public commitment to vote in their primary election and to encourage others to do the same. You can check it out here:

Vote for America’s Future

It’s a small step, but small steps from people across the country can change the direction of this country and overcome whatever challenges we face.

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Half of our far-flung team is converging on DC this weekend for a series of meetings, and we’re all pretty excited about the rare chance to get out from behind the keyboard and see each other in 3D.

Our community manager, Heather Mansfield, is flying out from the bible belt (Springfield, MO) to lead another one of her sold-out “Web 2.0 Trainings for Nonprofits,” while Danny and I trek from opposite ends of the country to watch in shock and awe.

If you’re in DC and weren’t able to sign up for the training, Heather will be back at the end of February (the 26th) and you can sign up here to attend. If the prospect of learning everything you need to know about how to use social networking tools to advance your nonprofit’s mission doesn’t get you out of your seat, the training also supports an awesome organization – Genocide Intervention Network – which would love your support.

Wish us luck…

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Hey Changemakers,

Under the assumption that it’s better late than never, we wanted to wish the Change.org community a Happy New Year!

The team took a rare vacation over the holidays, which for a few of us was the first in nearly a year. I went down to Santa Barbara to hang out with my family and relax on the beach, Mark headed back to Albuquerque, Rajiv trekked to India, Danny took refuge in Florida, and the rest of the team stayed with their families locally. It was a little strange not waking up every morning and immediately calling Mark and Danny to plan out our day, which is something I’m so used to doing that I caught myself calling them out of reflex on one groggy morning. But we’ve been able to make up for lost time since getting back online after the New Year and are once again chugging along.

One of the wonderfully ironic things about vacations is that they often help spur the type of creative ideas that the daily grind crowds out - making vacations in certain ways more productive than time spent working. This vacation was no different, and a few days into the holiday I had a revelation of sorts about a killer new feature for the site that I couldn’t wait to start working on. (Actually, I was so excited that I started working on it right away and my family had to peel me away from my computer on Christmas Eve to go to Mass. Catholics take their Christmas seriously.)

Now that we’re back in the office, we’re working on this new feature full-tilt and couldn’t be more excited about how things look. It won’t be ready for a while, but it’s going to represent the next stage of Change.org and I think you’ll be impressed.

Here’s to a great 2008!

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More great news folks – we were profiled on NPR yesterday! The nationally syndicated show “Marketplace” did a segment about online giving and had short interviews with our good friend Ruby Sinreich and me.

Truth be told, I think my quote might have set a record for the shortest recording in radio history. The background story is that we couldn’t get access to a studio in San Francisco, so I had to record the interview via Skype over the weekend and most of it wasn’t usable due to a combination of static and barking from the neighborhood dog, who wreaks havoc on the locals every night.

Nonetheless, it’s always great to be recognized as a leader in the space and I’ve now heard from at least a half-dozen people I haven’t talked with in months who heard us on the radio. It’s encouraging to see how many people actually listen to NPR…

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Hey everyone,

I’m excited to announce that today we’re launching a partnership with Network for Good! For those of you that don’t know, Network for Good was founded in 2001 by Yahoo!, AOL and Cisco and currently processes online donations for more than 10,000 nonprofits. We’re going to be co-marketing our new branded social networking service to all these organizations, with the aim of getting thousands of new nonprofits to start using our platform to build their online community and start using social fundraising tools to raise more money online.

As of today, Network for Good will also start processing all donations made through our site. They’ve processed over $145 million in donations since their founding, and we’re excited to start adding to that total.

We’ve had a great time working with the Network for Good team on kick-starting this partnership over the past couple of weeks under some series time pressure. Their VP of Marketing, Katya Andresen, has been particularly awesome. Kudos also to their product manager, Derek Low, who has stayed up many late nights to make this happen.

Here’s to a great partnership!

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Hey Changemakers,

As some of you may have noticed, our team blog has been largely dormant over the past few months and has generally left a lot to be desired. There are many reasons for this (not least of which is that I keep on telling the team that I’ll post “manana” and never seem to get around to it) but the good news is that the sad days of infrequent blog posts are now officially over. Today we are launching a new blog integrated into the site which I’ll be updating on a weekly basis. I’ll be covering what’s going on across the Change.org community, info on what we’re working on behind the scenes, and interspersing general thoughts on the world of philanthropy and social change. Consider this a pre-New Years resolution

A lot has happened over the past few months since I last posted. We were profiled in Time Magazine, we launched our new branded social networking service for nonprofits, and are currently working on a new social action news channel that allows people to take action on the top news items of the day. We’re also about to announce a couple new partnerships that will further extend our reach through the nonprofit sector.

In short, things are really taking off and the team is fairly giddy with excitement. We now have over 1000 registered nonprofit partners and 60,000 donors and activists on the site, and we’re growing faster every day.

To that end, we want to thank everyone for their support and for being early members of the Change.org community. As we continue to grow we want to recognize those of you who have been key to sustaining our community from the beginning. (Yes, that means you Danielle, Janice, Matt, Rachel, Richard, and Clare.) There are hundreds of others who have been core to this community, and I want to thank you for helping to make Change.org into a thriving community of changemakers dedicated to helping make the world a better place.

Thanks for reading. I’ll be back in touch sooner than you think…

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Change.org was mentioned today in the Wall Street Journal’s article A New Generation Reinvents Philanthropy, and I had a separate interview connected to the article with the subtitle How He Earns a Living Facilitating an Activist Network.

It’s great to see the Journal recognizing the potentially transformative effect that social software can have on philanthropy, and naturally very cool to be profiled in such a widely read publication.

I think the article did a great job of highlighting how social networking sites and related tools aren’t being used for philanthropic efforts merely because they’re popular, but because they are remarkably effective at overcoming some of the most frequent barriers to giving – that giving tends to be impersonal, provides donors no control over where their money is spent, and gives people a sense that their individual impact is insignificant.

However, I think the article focuses a little too much on how these new tools are being used by younger donors when the data indicate that the embrace is much more widespread. While younger donors may be especially turned off by traditional mass fundraising appeals, complaints about these tactics and interest in new approaches to philanthropy are by no means confined to this younger demographic. As evidence of this, just check out the donation pages of Kiva (another awesome organization mentioned in the article), where you can see photos of donors who seem mostly to be in their 30s, 40s and 50s. This doesn’t mean that younger donors aren’t also giving through Kiva, but rather that the dramatically better and more engaging giving experience offered by new services such as Kiva and Change.org appeal to a much wider audience than many people recognize.

The point is simply that the movement that we’re helping to drive forward to empower donors and radically improve the giving experience does not appeal only to a younger generation of donors, and we’re therefore not going to have to wait 10 or 15 years to see it become fully mainstream. Rather, I think it will be increasingly embraced by donors across generations, and that it has the potential to truly transform traditional philanthropy for the better. I’d be the first to admit that we’re not there yet, but some of the stuff we’ve been recently working on here at Change.org behind the scenes is going to get us even closer, and the ultimate goal of providing people of all ages a far more engaging and effective way to donate and make a difference is closer than many people think.

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