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I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s a movement of citizens inspired by the presidential campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think the Obama Administration should change America.\u00a0 It’s called “Ideas for Change in America.”<\/p>\n

The Ideas for Change in America competition was created in response to Barack Obama’s call for increased citizen involvement in government. The final round of voting began on January 5 and is comprised of the top 3 rated ideas from each of the 30 issues in the first round of the competition, which collectively received more than 250,000 votes.<\/p>\n

One idea is titled: Vegan school lunch options. I thought you might be interested in getting involved and recommend you check it out.\u00a0 You can read more and vote for the idea by clicking the following link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.change.org\/ideas\/view\/vegan_school_lunch_options<\/a><\/p>\n

This idea is currently in 16th Place and needs 1082 more votes to be part of the final 10 ideas presented at our event in Washington, DC<\/p>\n

The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on January 16th at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, co-hosted by the Case Foundation. At the event we will also announce the launch of a national advocacy campaign behind each idea in collaboration with our nonprofit partners to turn each idea into actual policy.<\/p>\n

The top 10 ideas will be supported by a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading nonprofits after the Inauguration.\u00a0 So each idea has a real chance at becoming policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I thought you might be interested in getting involved and recommend you check it out.\u00a0 You can read more and vote for the idea by clicking the following link: http:\/\/www.change.org\/ideas\/view\/vegan_school_lunch_options This idea is currently in 16th Place and needs 1082 more votes to be part of the final 10 ideas presented at our event in Washington, DC The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on January 16th at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, co-hosted by the Case Foundation. 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