Nominate Your Favorite Changemakers

Published October 04, 2009 @ 01:20PM PT

Change.org is a network focused on providing discussion and insight around the most important issues of the day, and helping people find ways to participate in tangible, meaningful action. In an effort to bring you even more of today's leading thinkers, we're launching the Changemakers Network, which will identify the activists, politicians, creatives, and other people who have the greatest influence to spark social change.

Right now, you can nominate and vote for people to be a part of this network. Being a part of the Changemakers Network will give these leaders access to blog and share messages with Change.org's network of more than a half million members and thousands of blogger and nonprofit partners.

The Changemakers already nominated come from an extremely diverse set of backgrounds, and are nominated in categories that follow those on the site. Some of the folks included in the "Social Entrepreneurship" category are:

Umair Haque - The director of the Havas Media Lab and prolific blogger who ends up in at least one post a week that I write.

Muhammad Yunus - The Nobel Peace Prize winning Granddaddy of Microfinance.

Bill Clinton - The founder of the Clinton Global Initiative which has been a major force promoting social innovation through business.

Arianna Huffington - The co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of the political blog network Huffington Post.

Larry Brilliant - The former director of Google.org and now head of the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund.

Harris Wofford - The former US Senator and former CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

To see all of the nominated changemakers and to vote or nominate your own, follow this link.

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Hiya, All, thanx for all you do and don't   :)

Those 10, I voted for, in alphabetical order   :)

Al Gore

Andrew Imparato

Arianna Huffington

Ben Jealous

Cornel West

Dr Helen Caldicott

John Lewis

Rachel Maddow

Russ Feingold

Van Jones

What was yours?   :)

reality

Posted by james m nordlund on 10/05/2009 @ 03:15AM PT
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All these people are wealthy; I don't want to teach my children that to change the world, you must be rich.

Posted by L.S. hope on 10/05/2009 @ 08:57AM PT
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That's a good point. These people are doing great things for sure but what about the people who aren't famous and doing great stuff? Picking one of them is like picking an iPhone in a design contest.

But at the end of the day they are working hard to change the world and thats the important thing.

Posted by Nelson de Witt on 10/05/2009 @ 01:19PM PT
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There's are two messages above that Change.org should take heed of. Social Enterprise or Social Entreneurship will remain a celebrity pursuit unless the unrecognised are supported. There's little point in encouraging anyone to "be the change" and then leave them hanging.

Posted by Jeff Mowatt on 10/05/2009 @ 10:23PM PT
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I would like to nominate Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Mark Levin, because they are also "other people who have the greatest influence to spark social change."

Props to Bill Clinton for balancing the budget... would like to see more of that.

Posted by Jason Jaytheman on 10/07/2009 @ 12:09AM PT
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I blogged yesterday about memes and how the concept of business for social good has evolved over 13 years since being published on the web.

http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=136178

Above Umar Haque of Harvard is listed, whose work on Constructive Capitalism appears to derive from the influence above. So why not include the originator.

It was he who 10 years earlier, took the concept to Russia to source a total inversion of HIID policy which preceded their 1998 economic collapse.

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I totally agree, everyday activists would be a great add, yet, my revised favorite changemakers :)

Amy Goodman

Andrew Imparato

Arianna Huffington

Ben Jealous

Cornel West

David Suzuki

Dennis Kucinich

Dr Helen Caldicott

John Lewis

Van Jones

reality

Posted by james m nordlund on 10/19/2009 @ 12:20PM PT
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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.