TopCorner.org launches today on Stanford campus!

Today's the big day! TopCorner.org has officially launched!

Go ahead, check out TopCorner.org. We are fully integrated with Facebook.com as well as with Amazon.com payments.

A group of nine Masters in Public Policy students at Stanford successfully pooled their own funds on 8/13 and 8/14 (and lobbied administrators for additional funding) on TopCorner.org to install a laser printer in the Stanford SIEPR building for use by public policy students. Voila: TopCorner.org functionality successfully demonstrated!

TopCorner.org launches today on Stanford campus with a lobbying effort to get airport shuttles for students during the Thanksgiving exodus on Nov. 16th and 17th. Stanford students: please Vote, Propose a Corner, and comment on the site. 

Thank you for your insightful feedback! Enjoy exploring TopCorner.org!

CA and US poll results: citizen interest in microlobbying issues

TopCorner community: here are the results of the representative polls YouGov ran for us in CA and the US. 

http://issuu.com/mewells/docs/topcornerpoll1

Question asked: "Imagine that you were going to contribute a small amount of your own money to a national (or state) political campaign. Which (if any) of the following causes would you be most likely to contribute to? Please choose no more than three."

NATIONAL RESULTS:
31% (A) Cutting taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies;
19% (B) Serving healthier meals in public schools;
16% (C) Removing hidden subsidies for sugar and corn;
24% (D) Stopping child abuse by introducing abuse education programs in high schools;
3% (E) Prohibiting the altering of women’s pictures in magazines;
11% (F) Teaching computer science in middle school and high school;
14% (G) Labeling genetically modified foods;
9% (H) Protecting
students from predatory for-profit universities;
23% (I) Making Congress more efficient by fixing the filibuster so that it doesn’t artificially impede the passage of legislation;
36% (J) Demanding a more bipartisan Congress (for example by withholding congressional pay if congress fails to pass a budget, requiring bipartisan seating during sessions of congress, or requiring bipartisan town hall meetings);
22% (K) None of the above