![]() ![]() With the simple click of a mouse, Ben and his staff make it possible for anyone to start a campaign and immediately mobilize their own virtual army, to make governments and companies more responsive and accountable. Whether it's a mother fighting bullying in school after her daughter’s suicide, customers pressing banks to drop unfair fees, or citizens holding corrupt officials to account, more than one million petitions for change have been started, leading to victories for 30 million people on, including a brother whose petition galvanized three quarters of a million people and won his sister’s release from an Iranian prison. “People with a simple action with their mobile phone can take action, have real impact and then do something offline as well.”Ĭ is the world's largest online platform for social change, empowering people everywhere to take action on the issues that matter to them most.Įvery day, people around the globe use to transform their communities – locally, nationally and globally. True to his promise, in 2007, Ben founded, a new idea in social enterprise that is exploding on the internet. “I’m going to dedicate myself to never staying silent again to empower people to say what they want around issues they care about.” So I am ashamed, trying to figure out what to do.”Īnd then something clicked. Personally, I had been one of those people. It was the people that stood by and didn’t do anything about it. ![]() “The pain he experienced wasn’t so much the people who were explicitly anti- gay. His brother was telling Ben and the world that he was gay – and it hadn’t been an easy decision. But then his younger brother shared a secret that changed everything. After college, he was going to be an investment banker, living the dream, probably making millions. ![]() Ben Rattray had his life all figured out. ![]()
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