Change.org Ideas for Change in America

Slocketman · Jan 26, 2010

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Launching today: Ideas for Change in America 2010

We're excited to announce that today Change.org is launching the second annual Ideas for Change in America competition, an initiative to empower citizens to identify and build momentum behind the country's best ideas for addressing the major challenges we face.

You can check out the site at www.change.org/ideas, where you can submit any idea you want to see implemented, discuss ideas with others, and vote on the top ideas from across the country.

Ideas can be submitted within any one of 20 issue categories, ranging from the environment to homelessness to education (view all issues here).

The top 10 most popular ideas will be announced at an event in Washington, DC in March and presented to relevant officials in the Obama Administration. We will then spend the following months mobilizing the resources of the Change.org team, our partners, and our 1 million community members to build a grassroots movement behind each idea.

To submit an idea, go to www.change.org/ideas/post_idea.

As many of you know, the first Ideas for Change in America competition was launched following the most recent presidential election, inspiring the submission of more than 7,500 ideas and 650,000 votes.

One year later, we face a critical juncture in American politics. The grassroots enthusiasm that President Obama rode into office has narrowed due to frustrating gridlock on issues like health care, a painful recession, and protracted rates of high unemployment. Cynicism about politics is on the rise, and a sense of powerlessness and frustration is palpable across the country.

It's during times like these that the temptation to recede from politics is greatest. But our response needs to be exactly the opposite - it's in the face of these adverse circumstances that we must fight hardest to advance the change we seek.

The presidential campaign demonstrated the tremendous potential the internet has to empower people to accomplish something remarkable together - something nobody thought was politically possible. It's this model of grassroots empowerment that Ideas for Change in America will extend beyond the context of an election and use to help build movements around the individual ideas and issues that you're passionate about.

This past year has shown how difficult it is to drive change from inside of Washington. So together, we're going to do the opposite; we're going to drive change from the outside-in.

We hope you'll join us.

- The Change.org Team
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