Great causes and good design can go hand in hand to raise awareness, provide information and connect people to take action. These 10 good cause websites are taking different approaches to changing the world without forgetting about the style!
Great causes and good design can go hand in hand to raise awareness, provide information and connect people to take action. These 10 good cause websites are taking different approaches to changing the world without forgetting about the style!
Avaaz
Avaaz is a global civic organization promoting activism on several topics such as human rights, climate change, corruption, poverty and conflict. The community with more than 13 million members is trying to ‘organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want’. Avaaz creates petitions that are signed by the Avaaz members and delivered to global and local decision-makers, organize demonstrations and uses donations to support their causes such as supporting activists to break the Internet blackout in several countries during Arab Spring.
Care2
Care2.org is an online community counting over 18 million members, consisting of people wanting to make an impact and change the world for the better. Care2’s mission, as they state on their website, is to ‘help people to make the world a better place’. Members can create and distribute petitions, read and write articles about a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, donate to charities, collect ‘Butterfly Credits’ that can be redeemed for good causes, send free e-cards, network and much more.
Do Something
DoSomething.org is an online community aimed at teenagers and young people, providing information and engaging them in topics of social change. Several times per month, campaigns are launched that give teens the possibility to take action and support causes that meet their interest.
The Girl Effect
The Girl Effect is a website advancing what they call the ‘Girl Effect’: The potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and everybody else when receiving sufficient support regarding education, health care and choice of marriage. The website’s aim is to inform, to spread the word and to get the topic to the public. Donations can be made to several programs especially focused on supporting underpriviledged girls.
Do The Right Thing
DoTheRightThing.com is a website run by an international team of social innovators. People are invited to share their ideas on improving any company’s service, products, social or environmental impact. Ideas that are supported by a sufficient amount of members are then forwarded to the company for consideration.
Cool People Care
CoolPeopleCare.com gives you the possibility to subscribe to a newsletter that will supply you with easy and meaningful ways to do your share of saving the world. The CoolPeopleCare team also write articles on this topic and sell self-designed products such as t-shirts to support several causes.
Change Your World
Change Your World is an initiative by the UK charity Sustrans to enable people to travel more of their daily journeys by foot, bike or public transport. You can pledge your journeys and join others to collect enough miles for a trip around the world as well as telling the British government to support and invest in sustainable ways of travelling.
3 Things
3Things helps you to start changing the world by first letting you state 3 things that you can do to change the world in a way that is meaningful to you. Then you can interact with the 3Things community to see the collective effect everybody’s three things have together, join events and workshops, read blog articles, join competitions and use the resources to get inspired about more things you can do to change the world.
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