Create an Online Petition

Change.org: The Most Powerful Petition Tool on the Web

Free and easy to create in 3 steps.

Directly target elected officials, business leaders, or other decision-makers.

Real-time delivery of signed letters to targets.

Ability to send follow-up messages to everyone who has signed your petition.

Nonprofits can build their email list by allowing participants to subscribe when signing.

Integrated social networking and sharing tools with Twitter and Facebook.

Embeddable widgets available to promote your petition on blogs and other sites.

Leaderboard shows how many people each supporter has recruited to sign the petition.

Petitions appear in each relevant cause community on Change.org. Top petitions each week are sent to more than 500,000 activists.

Petitions on Change.org have won dozens of campaigns:

Convinced the Dept. of Labor to release a confidential report on slave labor

Helped end the food industry’s deceptive nutrition labeling program

Compelled Scholastic to stop censoring gay friendly books

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Keep it short and simple!

A short, catchy, headline is the single most important part of your petition.

Tell people why your target is the best person to petition on this issue (e.g. “Send a letter to the Governor because she is the only person who can sign the bill into law”).

Ask the target of your petition to do something specific (e.g. “please vote yes on this bill” or “stop testing your lipstick on animals”).

Always attach a photo or video to your petition.

Use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to help recruit people to sign your petition.

Send a follow-up message to everyone who has signed your petition. Tell them what happened or give some additional information about the issue.