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24 alternatives to We made a site to crowd fund lobbying.

Hey guys, So we made this site with the goal of funding a lobbyist to represent the 99%. The money comes from small pledges of $5 and up. So far we've raised nearly $10k in under a week. We're focusing fund raising efforts on causes. I'm the founder and lead developer, and I'd love to hear this community's thoughts on the project as well as answer any questions. Thanks guys! http://www.wethelobby.com/

We The Lobby is a crowdfunding platform that collects small donations to fund lobbyists advocating for grassroots causes. The site gathers verified constituent positions on bills before the Texas Legislature, allowing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We made a site to crowd fund lobbying. launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1AW

    Hi everyone, I am organizing a crowdfunding campaign to give blankets/food/books/glasses and new year's postcards to 1000 homeless people in San Francisco. Since we as the residents already spend a lot of money on the homelessness issue in SF via government(200MM+/year), I thought some of us would be willing to take a more active role in fixing this issue by donating to campaigns like this one(and to more sustainable ones). So, I am thinking of turning this campaign into a crowdfunding platform for activists and organizations that want to work on homelessness related…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Donation matching made easy.

    2017 · donatemates.com · its alternatives →

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    The lobby for the rest of us

    2018 · lawmaker.io · its alternatives →

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    Everfund▲223

    Developer-centric donation experiences for the modern web

    2023 · everfund.com · its alternatives →

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    Did your representatives accept contributions from the NRA?

    2016 · whoismyvoice.com · its alternatives →

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    Powering transparent democracy

    2024 · counteveryvoice.org · its alternatives →

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    Funduf▲136

    Start a small crowdfunding campaign to prove product demand

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    As an angel investor in ~15 unicorns and a bunch of other startups, I spend a lot of time reviewing decks for founders as a favor. I love to help but I wish my time had even more impact. So I built Decks For Good, a website where founders can get feedback on their deck and fundraising process from a VC or exited founder in exchange for a $250 donation to charity. We put together a great group of advisors and we're ready to help you out! Sign up and let's do some good together.

    Feb 2026 · decksforgood.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated directory of crowdfunding resources

    2016 · crowdstack.me · its alternatives →

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    Help supporters tweet your message to their political reps

    2019 · wholewhale.com · its alternatives →

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    Crowdfunding where backers support through votes, not money

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    People give more on simple forms.

    2015 · simpledonation.com · its alternatives →

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    Crushing COVID with stimulus checks & social shares

    2020 · transturcarrental.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Jacek, the solo founder behind this project (Lustra). The Problem: 95% of legislation goes unnoticed because raw legal texts are unreadable. Media coverage is optimized for outrage, not insight. The Solution. I built a digital public infrastructure that: 1. Ingests & Sterilizes: Parses raw bills (PDF/XML) from US & PL APIs. Uses LLMs (Vertex AI, temp=0, strict JSON) to strip political spin. 2. Civic Algorithm: The main feed isn't sorted by an editorial board. It's sorted by user votes ("Shadow Parliament"). What the community cares about rises to the top. 3. Civic Projects:…

    Dec 2025 · lustra.news · its alternatives →

  16. 16MG

    http://giving.github.com A few weeks back, from a conversation around helping make the world a truly better place, we started a site where charities, organizations and those trying to make the world better could ask us programmers for help. The site is hard to establish as those doing meaningful work and in need of our help are sadly unaware of the programming community and spirit. But it has started to attract some requests - issues in github-mapping - that will hopefully propel it forward and serve to raise awareness with the good causes! So go get over there and help code something…

    2012 · giving.github.com · its alternatives →

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    A group of us (democracy-passionate friends) just launched OpenBallot, a platform of 40+ voter guides. The goal is to save you research time by showing you all the endorsements and explanations you care about in one place. You can use this to fill out your ballot, which is private by default. You can then share with friends or publish your views on our platform. The site is our first prototype; if you're in SF, please try it and share your feedback! We're hoping to use this to eventually scale to all over the country.

    2024 · openballot.app · its alternatives →

  18. 18UA

    After getting a lot of feedback on my project FinanceLinx.com, which helps startups and growing businesses with finding grants and government backed loans, I've decided to make some of the information public. If you go to the site now, there's an option to request a sample of the financing data. Please let me know how I can improve this, any constructive feedback is welcome!

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Y'all, I've been reading about the "nuclear option" that some internet giants are considering in order to highlight SOPA and I wondered why they didn't just put a banner saying to "Pay attention to SOPA" on their sites. I realized that it would only take a bit of time to build the service, so I did. It's built with Python, App Engine (my first time using it), Twitter's Bootstrap and GitHub. Has some rudimentary geolocating included so that politicians can be highlighted. It's a very early version (ie. I only have data for CA politicians), but I figured HN would enjoy seeing it early,…

    2012 · sopajs.org · its alternatives →

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    A ‘risk free’ crowdfunding platform

    2017 · fundthis.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22IM

    It has: War Alliances Presidents Voting for community leaders No users and much more... I made this because I'm terminally online and I'm hyper interested in online communities, how they function, how they evolve and this is basically my bet in the direction that it's all going in. That bet is that online communities will evolve to require much stronger tools to enable mass collaboration, democratically elected leaders/moderators and the war thing is just for fun.

    2022 · popresolve.com · its alternatives →

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    A bounty board for the Dead Internet era

    2025 · its alternatives →

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