Change.org

Change.org should not be keeping all donations people mistakenly make on their site when people think their donations are going for the cause of the petition they signed.
Thousands of dollars were made on change.org donations thinking donations were going to the cause, but change.org has kept all the money and the cause gets nothing.
This is more a scam than anything else.
Change.org should keep a small percentage but not the entire donation.

Change.org are scammers who steal your money under false pretenses and do nothing for your cause. They prey on people in legitimate need of help promising results but delivering nothing. Dirty rotten scammers.

They try every way they can to force money out of those who sign with the only opt out seeming to be to advertise them on your own social media. If you sign something they then without you knowing you've given them permission send you an email prompting you to sign something else (give them more money). Apparently change uk was started as a charity for altruistic reasons until somebody mentioned that they could con bug profits from people. They become user rich by conning us.

In 2016 someone came to my door asking for a donation to Change.org I graciously gave a One time donation of $22.00. It is now 2023 and I recently found out they have been charging me $22.00 EVERY month. I never agreed to pay monthly. I should have caught this sooner, but that does not excuse them stealing from me every month. When I tried to cancel, they did not even have me listed as "Monthly Contributor" and therefor did not even have a method for me cancel or modify. Per their web site,"If you do not see the "Manage contribution option, it means you were not signed up for a monthly contribution." (See the attached pictures) I never signed up to be a sustaining contributor, yet they did take money each and every month, gave me no option to cancel, and made it appear as if I was not contributing. Be wary of this organization.

Unfortunately, I decided to create a petition using "Change.org
To my big surprise, my friends receiving the petition informed me that the website was asking them to donate money! (I never received that information entering the "my petitions" section...)
I did not give them the authority to make such a thing, neither they informed me about that intention...
And that's NOT ALL...
I immediately asked them to delete my petition, but I needed to do this several times, and many days after, until I finally saw my petition (partly) erased...
Stay away, they are scammers, use another company, more reliable!

I donated money to a petition as I don't have social media, and it was a cause that I believe in. I got an email notification that confirmed a single one off donation. At the exact same time I received another email with the same subject heading so i did not notice that in fact two different confirmation emails had been sent. It was an email saying that I'd set up a monthly donation. Logging into change.org there is no record of my monthly standing order so I had to cancel via PayPal. I have tried to contact Change.org twice now for a refund and they've not responded. It is not a charity, its is a scam. I did not knowingly agree to pay monthly donations to change.org (a for profit company that doesn't appear to do anything really other than host random binary opinion polls). I have attached the two screenshots of the emails that were sent, the first confirming a one off payment and the second thanking me that I'd set up a monthly donation.

I am a bleeding-heart liberal (except I don't support legalization of cannabis), but this website is atrocious.

I am 6' 8" and created a petition one day for more leg room on coach flights. Without my permission, they gave my name to dozens and dozens of third parties.

The last thing they want to be is optimistic. I suffer from depression but they still make everything sound scary. I've been much happier now that I no longer receives these parties' emails. My experience led me to conclude that if the Civil Rights Movement had taken place today, Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" would have been its anthem instead of "We Shall Overcome."

Not only that but I, like other reviewers here, had no luck with my petitions. They are very much pick & choose about whose (and what) petitions they decide to support.

What a useless website this is. It's nothing more than a forum for people to vent their rubbish and vitriol when Facebook and other social media isn't enough. Nobody credible reads any of these petitions anymore because you have to wade through thousands of rubbish ones before you get a genuine one - if you can recognise it when you see it. Unless Change.org put some resources into properly policing this site and weeding out the rubbish and the defamatory self serving petitions full of misinformation and lies, then it's not worth the time logging on. Change.org don't respond to complaints or take action. They just waffle on, delay and lie. I notice the usual suspects signing the usual rubbish petitions and none of them get anything accomplished. I suppose it keeps the trolls all together in one place - but that's not enough of a positive to make it two stars. I'm off to find a petition to remove Change.org from the web.

I am absolutely disgusted as they deleted my petition because some snowflake got offended by it, I put a lot of money, time and effort into it, my petition was getting quite popular but change.org being biased decided that they were going to side with the special snowflake(s) and completely torn it down, the thing is I never swore, I was mildly blunt and only stated some issues. Freedom of speech does not apply on there clearly. This website is a load of codswallop and will only cater for the weak minded childish part of society.

Basically a site that sells your email address. Some petitions are based on false accusations and they don't seem to care. A disgruntled ex gf can slander someone. I thought the petitions were fact checked but they are not. Be weary when you sign a petition.

This company- private for profit, not public non profit - has a curious way of turning one off donations into monthly charges on your credit card. Impossible to cancel. Almost impossible to contact. Use them at your peril as I have discovered.

It's unfortunate I have made a few contributions to this site. However after going over my statements I noticed a $26 recurring payment to which I never intentionally agreed on. I'm usually pretty keen on detail so they must hide it well. No judgement if you choose to donate through this site. Just be aware the membership verbiage. I myself will no longer be using change.org services.

This company is not a not for profit as their name suggests and they have a record of unscrupulous and biased business practices. To unsubscribe - they make you create an account so they can sell your eMail address. I'm not happy about being duped by this company. I will be much more careful if I decide to put my name on another petition. My inbox is filling with petitions that are mostly politically motivated and the majority do not align with my values.

The historic petition to free political prisoner Tommy Robinson has been sabotaged by allowing an identical petition to run at the same time, which has so far stolen 120,000 signatures from the original. This is an utter disgrace! These people are signing in good faith believing they are signing the only petition, which should rightly by now be nearing 3/4 million.
What use is an organisation that cannot be trusted to ensure that the full tally of signatures for a cause that is of international interest is accurately recorded? In my opinion this will cause everlasting damage to the reputation and credibility of (Change.Org).

1. It hides its commercial nature as a certified B corporation. It's actually a for-profit business. In wiki, Change.org claims to be a non-profit in the beginning, but if you read on, it states very clearly that "Change.org is a for-profit, venture-backed company."
2. It asks for donations for a particular legal action against racial discrimination, but when you make a donation, your money actually goes to Change.org instead of funds for that legal action. In other words, you thought you were supporting a petition but you are actually the profit of change.

By the way, while petition might not be the best way to actually make Congress move, they are an effective way to lure an internet user into handing over their personal information.

Have been hacked twice recently, both times immediately after signing change.org petitions via Facebook even though I have virus protection. Co-incidence? I don't think so. Did you notice that an ad SUPPORTING Keystone XL as one of petitions they offer? Social change needed? Yes. Petitions a great way to make your voice heard? Yes! BUT NOT VIA CHANGE.ORG! Unfortunately they've sold out to the big corps. I'll sign petitions elsewhere and vote with my pocketbook, but not via 'Change'.)'(

I know I signed a few petitions on banning pit bulls because of how murderous, violent and dangerous they are.
I'm not one to donate money online, but for the first time I was like "why not". I donated, and today I realized I was being charged 3 dollars for the last 3 months and I didn't understand why. Furthermore, I didn't sign up for a membership. I don't even know how. I haven't even been on, Change since I lasted signed a petition.

A good deed turned a bad fee. I may not use the platform anymore because of that trick they played. Sorry I'm all for change but if Change wants to short change me then there is no change.

Even though an open platform change.org acted IMMEDIATELY to remove parts from a petition that was created to harass a black family, in East Toronto, Canada thus making it useless.
We thank all of the team at change. Org. As their message is clear: 0 tolerance.

I appreciate Change.org, and have been signing petitions on the website for years. However, I have one major critique: the website makes it difficult for people who want to read the entire petition before signing. I receive emails asking me to sign petitions, and these emails include a one-click sign button, meaning that if a person accidentally clicks on that button, then they automatically sign the petition and it is difficult to remove their signature. Additionally, after signing a petition, people are asked to sign more petitions, whose titles are shown, but people have to click a couple of extra times to read the full petition. I would greatly prefer it if Change.org would encourage people to read the full text of the petitions they are signing, rather than pushing people to sign as many petitions as possible.

I recently (jokingly) made a petition about a friend of mine, and a worker named max contacted me and gave some advice because it wasn't a clear joke petition, And I said sorry mine is a joke petition, he said no need to apologize and went on as usual, I said oh your not a bot? And he was very friendly and I cracked a joke, and he went with it to make the awkwardness of a stranger texting you go away, I loved max, he was wonderful! Will use the site again and hope me and max are in contact someday again to check on how he's been.

There are so many Religious and cultural problems also within the society. Many activities are going on within the society which insults and misinterprets a religious and Cultural doctrines in the name of Secularism and Atheism.
But the problem is that the Voice of people who advocates the religion and culture are not recognized by many institutions and NGOs. The Change.org too fail in the given context. There is no separate opinion for Religious and cultural topics within the topics will signing the petition. This very essential topic is neglected by Change.org

I like that it has a Search function. Most others don't. I can search before starting ANOTHER petition on the same topic.
Lots of Canadian content too!

Is kinda of fun to use. I enjoy it! Easy to use but really good! Stop saying negative things about it.