Rich, Famous Pony Up $25 Million For Change.org

Change.org is here to stay, thanks to a who's-who of A-listers.

Change.org seeks to change the world. And wealthy celebrities including Bill Gates and Richard Branson want to make sure Change.org never goes away.

A pack of the world's rich-and-famous have assembled to give Change.org $25 million in funding, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

In addition to the Microsoft billionaire and the Virgin mogul, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Yahoo's Jerry Yang, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Arianna Huffington have all donated, the newspaper reported

Even Ashton Kutcher got on board!

In a report in Fortune, Change.org CEO Ben Rattray said that the San Francisco-based organization will be able to use the cash injection to pay for a mobile app. He'll also do more rounds of funding to pay off early investors.

Change.org has raised $42 million since 2007, the newspaper reported.

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