PolicyPitch.com - Spark Change In Your Community

A platform for making neighborhood improvement ideas come true, PolicyPitch lets the user create a page where he can outpour his ideas and elicit thought on important community issues. Moreover, site users can even raise money through their pages.

In order to submit an idea, you must specify its title and your intended goal in a five-step submission process. This entails providing concise descriptions and choosing up the relevant categories from the ones on offer. At the end of the submission process, you will also be asked if you want to raise funds to support your idea and whether or not you want to add a petition in order to get support and signatures.

On the other hand, you can easily vote on existing ideas and rank them through the site. No registration is necessary to do that, and all you have to do is furnish your ZIP code or the name of your city and browse through the respective user submissions. A search tool that lets you browse not only by city but also by State is likewise included, along with a tool for searching specific topics.

Lastly, the most popular ideas are spotlighted on the main page for additional reference and inspiration.

“Policypitch.com is a platform for introducing new ideas and policies at the neighborhood, city, and state level and serves as a utility to make something happen. Create a page with your idea for a new community initiative, change in public policy, local ordinance, state law, or just cause a ruckus about important community issues. You can even raise money for your cause at the same time.”

It empowers individuals to raise consciousness higher and elicit change.

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