Racial Justice
The Real Reason you Shouldn’t “Chip-In” on Change.Org
Your money isn’t going where you think it is
With the Black Lives Matter protests still taking place across the country — though, the news would like to convince you that they aren’t — petitions for law changes, arrests, and criminal cases re-opened have likely shown up on your feed for you to sign. I know for myself, I’ve signed more petitions in the last few months than I have in my entire life, a majority of them on Change.org. If you’ve signed a petition on Change.org you have likely assumed, like the majority of us, that change.org is a non-profit organization actively working to make a change around the world. And they have made changes, in 2011 they got Bank of America to get rid of their $5 debit card charges, and just this year they helped get the police officers responsible for George Floyd’s murder arrested.
Change.org has worked to make positive impacts across America, however not all their business practices are ethical.
For-Profit
Change.org is a multimillion-dollar private for-profit organization, despite the misleading use of their .org instead of .com. It is not nor has it ever been a non-profit. In fact, every year Change.org brings in millions of dollars in revenue from a…
