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Added new citation for number of employees and company's status as a B Corporation. Added mission statement in same manner as overview of Avaaz.org article. Consolidated discussion of business model. Added "See Also" article. Fixed broken citation link. --Worldiswatching (talk) 05:55, 1 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

While cleaning up vandalism, added "citation needed" tag to sentence about working with largest non-profits and having team of hundreds. Worldiswatching (talk) 00:08, 16 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

The page is heavily biased about the group. Failure to mention that it is one of the top listed spammers, sending messages to people that have requested to be removed from it's list. It also doesn't mention the accusations of false data that is distributed by it such as it's current campaign about Hershey's/student guest labor.

Very questionable.

198.5.134.170 (talk) 19:08, 24 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

The wiki does not contain information about the website being heavily supportive of the Democrat party, going as far as to slip in "I stand with Obama" pledge promotions in the middle of browsing petitions, very odd considering that they're "an online advocacy platform that empowers anyone, anywhere"... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.225.49 (talk) 16:25, 12 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

This page was vandalized on 11/15/2011 by IP 124.168.112.155. Adjectives ("corrupt" and "spamming") were added before "for-profit corporation" that demonstrate bias against the company. Edits will be removed via Undo. Worldiswatching (talk) 23:59, 15 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

You actually don't need to report your edits on the talk page, only in the edit summary. 71.146.8.88 (talk) 22:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

The user is actively censoring any information that is mysteriously called "bias against the company". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.153.30.254 (talk) 21:00, 15 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

The source for the sentence about the heavy criticism of (unintended) users is

<ref>{{cite web|title=How do I remove my signature - Petition Online Help Desk|url=http://helpdesk.petitiononline.com/entries/20825276-how-do-i-remove-my-signature-name-from-a-petition?page=1|publisher=PetitionOnline|accessdate=19 March 2012}}</ref>

and for the sentence about the ended support it's

<ref>{{cite web|title=URGENT: How to retrieve signatures to my petition? : Petition Online Help Desk|url=http://helpdesk.petitiononline.com/entries/20458158-urgent-how-to-retrieve-signatures-to-my-petition|publisher=PetitionOnline|accessdate=19 March 2012}}</ref>

It's not possible to add it to the article as the PetitionOnline URL (but not the Change.org URL, senselessly) is blocked by Wikipedia.87.77.27.9 (talk) 16:49, 19 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Although the article currently says that the most signatures were collected in regard to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, currently (3/22/2012 @ 1:02 PM CST) the most signatures (over 1.3 million) collected on change.org was actually in regard to Caylee's Law (Caylee Anthony):

http://www.change.org/petitions/create-caylee-s-law-3

Of course, it is likely that the Trayvon Martin petition will break that record within the next few days, given that it has over 1 million signatures:

https://www.change.org/petitions/prosecute-the-killer-of-our-son-17-year-old-trayvon-martin

76.123.133.211 (talk) 18:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)PetitionMonitorReply

There was an interview on the Colbert Report, which could be referenced for article expansion. PurpleSteak (talk) 08:35, 26 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

The basic Change.org petition platform is available to anyone regardless of nationality or political persuasion. There are petitions on the site from a variety of political perspectives, including petitions that are in direct competition with one another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eldemere1251 (talk • contribs) 15:44, 1 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

The criticism section contains a passage alleging change.org is misleading users into thinking its an "organization" not a business. Is the term "organization" limited to non-profits? Does the distinction "non-profit" even exist outside of the US tax structure? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.55.216.79 (talk) 17:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

I think the definition of 'organization' is pretty clear, an organization is any formal or even informal 'organized' group of people. This include businesses, clubs, schools, charities, non-profits, unions, political parties, sports teams, etc. Could be anything as simple as a group of friends who arrange to meet on a regular basis, up to the whole US government or the UN. Its a proper umbrella term. :) Lucien86 (talk) 15:45, 4 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Anti-Netflix's Cleopatra has been removed from change.org for no imaginable valid reason. That fact should be listed in the Criticism section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.170.86.132 (talk) 13:29, 16 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Near the end of the signature process they ask for $5 to $1000 donation to help promote the petition. It looks like $10 will hook the petition to 50 other petitions, $50 to 250 and $100 to 500, up to $1000 donation in what they call "crowd promoting" other petitions in an attempt to get the petition at the top of the page. Alatari (talk) 11:32, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

I can't find any sources on how they will prevent fraud by having single person or group, using multiple email addresses attached to fake (or incorrect) names/addresses to abuse this system but it's all income to them. Alatari (talk) 12:09, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

I propose removal of links to individual petitions from this article, for these reasons:

• They are primary sources, something we want to avoid
• In many cases there is no independent coverage offered to substantiate claims, only a link to the petition itself
• change.org petitions (and any other petitions) are blacklisted on Wikipedia

One would think, if a specific petition deserves a mention in this article, then it should have ample independent coverage in reliable sources. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:

• http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-bank-of-america-no-5-debit-card-fees

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• http://www.change.org/petitions/z-let-the-lorax-speak-for-the-trees

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• http://www.change.org/about/privacy

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• http://helpdesk.change.org/entries/20272227-i-want-my-name-off-of-this-petition-immediately

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• http://www.change.org/petitions/prosecute-the-killer-of-our-son-17-year-old-trayvon-martin

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• https://www.change.org/petitions/youtube-googlede-allow-third-party-recording-tools-for-youtube-freedomonyoutube

  Triggered by \bchange\.org\b on the local blacklist

• http://www.change.org/petitions/seth-macfarlane-and-fox-broadcasting-company-bring-brian-griffin-back-to-family-guy

  Triggered by \bchange\.org\b on the local blacklist

• https://www.change.org/p/save-beau-the-dog-s-life

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• http://blog.change.org/2011/04/chinese-hackers-attack-change-org-platform-in-reaction-to-ai-weiwei-campaign/

  Triggered by \bchange\.org\b on the local blacklist

• https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

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• http://www.change.org/

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@Cyberpower678: This article is about change.org. Why are we not permitted to include links to this website in this article? Jarble (talk) 03:25, 7 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Could somebody change the format of the "notable petitions" section? One idea is to use bullet points, and another is to organize with subheadings, like on the We the People petition site page here. The text as it currently stands is difficult to parse, considering each "paragraph" is unrelated to the others. Cody.berdinis (talk) 08:11, 24 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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I don't see the accusation regarding selling personal data in the link provided as a source: http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/change-dot-biz

--Krumonset (talk) 15:45, 26 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

I replaced the screenshot with a generic one. We should not give the impression of endorsing the aims of any specific petition, especially a political one. Guy (help!) 13:18, 6 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

As I mentioned in the title, I think there've been quite a lot of notable petitions, a. E. The very recent change.org petition to ban the upcoming 2g rules which gained over 300.000 signatures Thereal.simula (talk) 07:54, 18 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. [see below]

General Overview Box

Type of site: For clarity, this should be updated to "Private (Nonprofit-owned, Delaware public benefit corporation)" [adding "nonprofit-owned" as the Change.org PBC is a subsidiary of the nonprofit Change.org Foundation.] ^[1]

Key people: Ben Rattray is no longer the CEO. He is now Executive Chair of the Change.org Foundation. Nick Allardice is the CEO. Jennifer Dulski is no longer the President/COO. The current key people may be listed as follows:

• Ben Rattray (Executive Chair, Change.org Foundation)
• Nick Allardice (CEO, Change.org, PBC)
• Preethi Herman (Global Executive Director, Change.org Programs)

Introductory Overview

Change.org is a global tech platform owned by the nonprofit Change.org Foundation. The Change.org Foundation oversees two mutually supporting organizations: (1) Change.org Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, and (2) Change.org Programs, the charitable activities of the Foundation. According to the organization, this hybrid structure is designed to enable the platform to operate with the ambition and growth trajectory of a tech company while maintaining the mission-focused stewardship of a nonprofit. ^[2]

The rest of the opening paragraph, while generally accurate, has many grammatical and structural sentence errors that should be corrected. Further, as the organization has not accepted paid sponsorship or advertising from outside organizations, companies or corporations in several years and is fully funded by its individual users, the following statement is quite outdated and should be considered for removal from the opening description as it is no longer relevant: "Until 2016, Change.org hosted sponsored campaigns and corporations including Virgin America,[4] and organizations such as the Humane Society, paid the site to promote their petitions.[5]"

[Disclosure: Change.org employee]

--ElleLinElle (talk) 23:26, 22 December 2021 (UTC) ElleLinElleReply

• Partly done. @ElleLinElle: I've implemented your requested edits to the infobox and to remove the sentence about sponsored campaigns. I am not fulfilling you request to reword the lead section because your request adds content that is not already included in the body of the article, and the lead section must follow the body. ––FormalDude talk 22:42, 25 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Thank you for taking the time to implement these updates @FormalDude Would you be willing to also consider the following updates to the History section of the page?

- The current CEO is Nick Allardice so the reference to Ben Rattray should say “current board chair” instead of chief executive

- The current CTO is Elaine Zhou, so the reference to Mark Dimas should say chief engineer, instead of chief technology officer

- The company's founding members are Ben Rattray, Mark Dimas, Danny Moldovan, Darren Haas and Adam Cheyer

- In 2012, Change.org began its global expansion, spanning 18 additional countries in 18 months including the UK, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America.

- In 2019 through 2021, the organization expanded further across Latin America and Africa, including Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, among other countries

- In 2021 Change.org became the world’s largest nonprofit-owned platform for social change with unprecedented equity donation by all investors [1] to the Change.org Foundation

- As of 2022, Change.org has an estimated 300 staff in more than 25 countries around the world, with more than 245,000 members and half a billion users spanning 196 countries, helping the organization’s recognition as a finalist for Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Company of the Year [2]

- The organization serves users in 12 languages and 18 local varieties

- By 2023, Change.org petitions are estimated to have received a total of more than 5 billion signatures from people around the world in an attempt to address the world’s most pressing political, societal and economic issues ElleLinElle (talk) 20:55, 27 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

N, most of the suggested edit requests are without any supporting references. Also, its not clear where exactly the requester wants the edits to be made. Please follow the edit request guideline while raising the next edit request. Chirota (talk) 08:54, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hey everyone! I am a new User. Hope you all are having a good day.

I wanted to know what you guys think about adding images to the article, possibly under the "notable petitions" section or the "criticisms one", to give readers a clearer picture of the events happening. Let me know what you think.

--Farouk Najjar (talk) 00:12, 30 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Farouk Najjar: Did you have any images in mind or are you looking for suggestions? ––FormalDude talk 04:54, 30 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello all. I wanted to propose a suggestion to add into the article that as of September 2021, Change.Org is 100% nonprofit owned and is the largest tech platform to hold this title with the help of investors like Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates. I believe this is important information that could allow a reader to better understand the status of the organization.

SeenaBerkeley (talk) 20:03, 30 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I agree with you. I struggled with finding whether it is for-profit or non-profit. The page on Wikipedia shows both of those information. However, I think there is a difference between being non-profit an being owned by non-profit what seems to be the case here.

I also found some information about it becoming fully non-profit owned since 2021, but it might need more research.

Article from medium.com Shaledges (talk) 19:42, 6 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I have come across petitions by crackpots who want their physics teacher fired for being "cult leaders". Obviously these wackjob petitions do not garner a lot of signatures. But equally obviously, freedom of expression is one thing and slander is another.2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:D987:899A:3E01:2296 (talk) 14:56, 30 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

This is something I've wondered about, and that the article doesn't give any information on at all. Are proposed petitions monitored and moderated at all, or can literally any fruitcake start a petition on any subject of their choice? I've certainly had petitions drop into my inbox that are, at best, one-sided and poorly informed. If I started a petition calling for change.org to be banned because it's undemocratic, would the site be prepared to host that? GrindtXX (talk) 19:57, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

There is currently a table of petitions that gives a list of the top petitions and whether or not they succeeded. This is given in the form of success,ongoing, and failure.

Some problems with this is that it would be a dynamic list of course, determining whether or not a petition succeeded or not can be difficult. There is some encyclopedic interest in it being included though, so the top petitions varying isn't necessarily disqualifying though. How we classify the outcome is a bit more problematic.

For instance two requests: Make Kobe Bryant the NBA Logo and Treat People Who Attack Doctors Like Terrorists (India) are policy changes over an undefined timespan. So long as the NBA and state of India still exist these will always be considered ongoing, since it's possible that the changes could be implemented at some future point even if the connection to the petition is functionally nonexistent. There should be a cutoff of something like 5 years (to be generous) after which a petition is considered an automatic failure. Any outcome after public interest in the petition wanes is probably not related, the petition itself mostly (entirely?) being a expression of public sentiment rather than any actual venue of action.

We also run into the problem of partial successes/failures. Many of the petitions have a list of demands, often a basic one like simple recognition by some government official followed by extremely improbable or flat out delusional ones (especially true for petitions involving criminal cases). We cannot cherry-pick out which demands qualify and which ones don't. JSory (talk) 20:46, 22 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hello editors,

I am here on behalf of change.org to suggest some updates to the Wikipedia article. I have disclosed my COI here and on my user page. Due to my conflict of interest, I won't be editing the article directly. I'm looking forward to working with editors to improve the wikipedia article. To start, I'd like to suggest some changes to the Business model section.

Right now, the section is outdated and doesn't include any information about the non-profit that owns change.org. Below is my proposal for a revised section to bring it up to date and reorganize some of the content.

 Done @Change.orgJS: Made a couple of changes to the proposed text. The sentence "Donations through the platform do not go to campaign makers..." will remain. Let me now if you have an issues with these changes. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 19:14, 30 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, I appreciate it! Change.orgJS (talk) 00:24, 4 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

The user below has a request that an edit be made to Change.org. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. Summary of request: infobox updates The requested edits backlog is very high. Please be extremely patient. There are currently 702 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies.

Hi Editors,

I'm here with another request on behalf of change.org. Would editors be willing to update the infobox to the proposed version below? This updates founder and CEO and removes the out of date key people, updates the employee count for improved accuracy, and removes the outdated screenshot.

Change.org, PBC

Logo
Type of site	Private (nonprofit-owned,[1] Delaware public benefit corporation)
Founded	Incorporated in Delaware on February 7, 2007; 19 years ago (2007-02-07)
Headquarters	Remote
Area served	Worldwide
Owner	Change.org Foundation
Founder	Ben Rattray[2]
CEO	Ben Rattray[3]
Industry	Internet
Revenue	US$115 million (2021)
Net income	US$108 million (2021)
Total assets	US$114 million (2021)
Employees	217[4]
URL	change.org

Please let me know what you think. Thank you! Change.orgJS (talk) 17:14, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply