Meet Ben Rattray, one of Fast Company's Most Creative People

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Though Ben Rattray pursued a financial degree at Stanford, he wanted to make a bigger difference, so he started a petition website that's become the destination of choice for amateur activists and squeaky wheels of all types. Change.org now helps 40 million global users launch as many as 1,000 petitions a day, guiding them step-by-step through the process of writing and promoting petitions online and providing a highly visible platform for publishing them.

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How Change.org Measures Its Massive Impact

With a beta site that is allowing companies and politicians to respond directly to petitions, the growing online organizing platform is finding new ways to gauge the power of the people who launch campaigns for change.

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How Change.org Measures Its Massive Impact

With a beta site that is allowing companies and politicians to respond directly to petitions, the growing online organizing platform is finding new ways to gauge the power of the people who launch campaigns for change.

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