It looks like you are still seeding from non profits that aren’t partnered with you, will these include links back the original non profit?

This is Ben from Change.org – thanks for the questions. As we’ve mentioned to others, in order to test the new Jobs for Change service when it was in private beta, we seeded the job listings database with positions from our partners that were posted elsewhere on the web, mostly from their own websites. When we launched the beta last week we kept many of these on the site so other users could test the search functionality.

Rather than shunning the extra free promotion, many nonprofits have thanked us for the exposure we’ve given their listings.

The only complaint we have received is from Idealist, which asked us to remove postings that were made over the weekend by a few of our users who apparently took them directly from the Idealist site. We removed those immediately and have looked through our other postings to make sure they were not taken from nonprofits who had posted on Idealist.

Also, to answer Steven’s question – as you can read in our About Us page, Change.org is not a traditional non-profit but rather a social entrepreneurship company that is part of the growing movement of organizations using innovative business models for social change. (http://www.change.org/info/about). Like Craigslist.org, a similarly mission-driven company, our domain name reflects this unique mentality. (It also reflects the more mundane reality that http://www.change.com was unavailable when we were founded and remains – gasp! – a high end lingerie site.)

Thanks for the questions, guys. If you ever want to contact me directly with further questions/suggestions/ideas, please feel free to do so at ben at change.org.

Best,

Ben

According to the Change.org “About Us” page (http://www.change.org/info/about), it is not a nonprofit organization, but a social venture.

Thanks for asking!

Thank you for sharing your honest concern! Do you work for a nonprofit organization that uses Idealist to post job or volunteer opportunities? Have you given this feedback to the Change.org team – and if so, what did they say? I’d be happy to pass information along via any connections I may have!

Thanks again!