Care2

If you sign petitions you build up Butterfly Points to give to charities. These gifts are supposedly donated by Care2 using the Butterfly Points, BUT, you cannot find out if the charity actually receives the gift. To contact Care2 you have to fill in a fiddly online Form which always bounces back asking for more info. I wanted to know if my Butterfly Points Gift was received by ASPCA but Care2 refuse to reply. I want to help animals by signing petitions against abuse and cruelty but wonder if Care2 are genuine? Does anyone know why they dont reply to peoples messages?

"Care2 Stands Against: bigots, bullies, science deniers, misogynists, gun lobbyists, xenophobes, the willfully ignorant, animal abusers, frackers, and other mean people. If you find yourself aligning with any of those folks, you can move along, nothing to see here."

Sounds good, yes? Read between the lines. While I have no arguments against targeting animal abusers, the other labels need better definition because it can be biased and too facile. What's Care2's definition of a bigot, a bully, or mean people? Does that mean if my views are at variance with Care2's political position that I'm a bigoted mean person who's willfully ignorant, that I should just "Move along"? Care2 isn't interested in rational discussions; it's an exclusive self-congratulatory political club that aims to intimidate, demean, and brainwash the intellectually passive.

I have been in charged of many petition on the care2 site for a while and I was somewhat happy with how my signatures were going up because I promoted my cause on social network. Although my success is ongoing with my petitions, I have never even been able to contact tech support, the vice president, the staff or anyone who works for care2, they completely ignore me when I am in need of help. I sent so many e-mails and NO RESPONSE! I mean you are a site for GOOD and you possibly are the worse people, you just do not care! I cannot send updates to my supporters AT ALL and no one can help me. I feel so bad that you give people false hope and just don't help them in their time of need! If you have a cause that you want to bring to light please make it on change.org and stay AWAY FROM CARE2, it is not worth the headache and I am convinced its a scam!

Since I put my comment (when I just started visiting), I'm really disappointed with this site and its blog. Articles about animals, foods etc are good and educating. I'm really disappointed with the Human Rights section. The majority is reblogging from other sources, but even as reblogging it often doesn't come right. Facts not verified (to a degree of nonesense), adding something that's not there, omitting information, sometimes the impression is that the author didn't even read the article they reblog and just made up something different, mulling the same stories over and over. My biggest complaint is it seems that the bloggers absolutely need to follow some "party line", when selecting subjects and then twisting the information to the degree of "witch hunt", even making unfounded accusations. It's not just boring, it's adverse and anti-Human Rights. It's not a bad site overall, but I wouldn't give it more then 1 star for this reason.

I joined Care 2 in the hope that I could do some good in the world, met a wonderful Australian who has become a good friend, clicked to donate, signed thousands of petitions until my page crashed. After a few weeks I managed to sort the problem myself. I had written to Care 2 a few times asking for help... nothing. When I eventually got back on I resumed signing etc. and then I was verbally abused by a creep on a Comments page and the abuse was disgusting. I had already been verbally slated by 1 man for my opinions on Trump and was used to revolting people posting nasty comments, not just to me but the abuse I got from this particular man was dreadful and really upset me. I wrote to Care2 and had a very unenthusiastic and quite angry response so I left. I really enjoyed signing petitions and clicking etc. but Care 2 are supposed to care and be fair and they do neither. The public are not stupid and a lot of people know that they are a profit making company but they should look after the people who genuinely want to help make a difference and fight cruelty, poverty and injustice. I am signing petitions elsewhere but will never rejoin Care 2 and for those who have written about how wonderful they are... do you work for Care 2? If not just be careful!

I've been a member of Care2 for a number of years. Care2 is the best petition site - by far.

Here's why:

It's incredible to see how much impact the members have on the world. People start petitions to help protect local parks, improve school policies (e.g. BYU "code of conduct" rape petition), help wildlife (e.g. Cecil the lion, Yulin dog festival) and thousands of other causes.

Care2 is truly a community (35 million people) of people who want to make a positive impact on the world. Other petition sites are just places to start a petition. At Care2, the members are very active to support each others campaigns.

Care2 has partnerships with thousands of nonprofit organizations to help them win their campaigns. They work with all the big names (Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund, Human Rights Watch, etc.)

Why do some people bash the site? Because Care2 is a threat to some people. They fight the NRA, they don't support policies of the Religious Right, they support gay rights, freedom of choice and the rights of us little people around the world - so that angers people on the far Right.

As the saying goes, "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History". That makes a lot of people unhappy, but I think that also means they're having an impact.

Also, Care2 does connect people with nonprofits, but you need to give your permission for them to do that. So, if people are complaining about this, they should just opt-out of that.

Care2 is the real deal. Highly recommended.

While observing both sides of a petition war over Laura Ingraham's employment, I notice the anti-lngraham petition on Care2 racking up huge numbers while the pro-Ingraham petition on. Standunited lagged behind.
The funny thing was that while nearly all pro signators left comments less than 5% left comments on the anti-lngraham petition?
The pro petition was ranked well ahead of the Care2 petition when ranked by a g oogle search. This might suggest that the pro side was getting more hits. If this is the case, it would seem strange that a petition can double the number of signatures while getting less hits. The answer may come from the many reviews that suggests that Care2 pouches peoples information from other petitions and forges them onto petitions supporting left wing causes.
This would be no surprise given the Sal Alynski tactics of the left but we can only guess.

Care2 does not care about anything except advertising $$$$$$. Adspam posted by money launderers is allowed to infest the comment threads, threads are allowed to grow to thousands of comments, rendering them impossible to load, let alone read, and the moderator of the "help" group - that is closed to participation by people not in it - blatantly plays favorites. People he doesn't like are suspended and Care2 never explains why or how long the suspension will be in effect. Several petitions asking for Care2 to be more open in communicating with members were deleted, and another petition hosted on Avaaz has had its Care2 discussion thread censored. Even so, the favored trolls are allowed to insult anyone who asks for Care2 to be more open and responsive to members' needs.

This company is not about 'caring.' It's about page views, ad revenue, and has incompetent moderators and technical personnel. Some parts of the site have not worked in years, yet the company has no interest in fixing them. I'd give 0 stars here if it were possible.