San Antonio Pets Alive! warns of unauthorized GoFundMe page, calls it ‘misleading’
Read full article: San Antonio Pets Alive! warns of unauthorized GoFundMe page, calls it ‘misleading’San Antonio Pets Alive! said GoFundMe created a donation page for the nonprofit organization without their permission.
GoFundMe is refurbishing a lesser-known financial tool in a bid to supercharge everyday giving
Read full article: GoFundMe is refurbishing a lesser-known financial tool in a bid to supercharge everyday givingGiving Funds is GoFundMe’s latest in a flurry of product rollouts with the purported goal of moving stagnant U.S. charitable contributions beyond the 2% GDP mark where totals have long hovered.
Relief, 21st-century style: As wildfires burn, GoFundMe becomes a repository of harrowing stories
Read full article: Relief, 21st-century style: As wildfires burn, GoFundMe becomes a repository of harrowing storiesAs California’s massive wildfires burn, thousands of GoFundMe campaigns for victims have become an outlet for onlookers transfixed by the blazes and eager to do something to help.
Trump's campaign crowdfunded millions online in an untraditional approach to emergency relief
Read full article: Trump's campaign crowdfunded millions online in an untraditional approach to emergency reliefFormer President Donald Trump’s campaign is using GoFundMe to rally its donor network around the survivors of his July assassination attempt and Hurricane Helene’s destruction.
GoFundMe says $30 billion has been raised on its crowdfunding and nonprofit giving platforms
Read full article: GoFundMe says $30 billion has been raised on its crowdfunding and nonprofit giving platformsGoFundMe crowdfunding campaigns have generated $30 billion since 2010, the fundraising platform announced Tuesday, as younger generations look beyond institutions to make their donations.
Bills' Hamlin will put the millions raised into his charity
Read full article: Bills' Hamlin will put the millions raised into his charityBuffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin will use the $10 million given to online fundraising campaigns by well-wishers after his on-field collapse to fund his own nonprofit, the Chasing M’s Foundation.
'Glue me back together': Online pleas to aid parade victims
Read full article: 'Glue me back together': Online pleas to aid parade victimsFriends and families of the roughly 60 people hit by an SUV that sped through a Christmas parade in a suburban Milwaukee downtown say some suffered life-threatening injuries.
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Donations pour in for families of Atlanta shooting victims
Read full article: Donations pour in for families of Atlanta shooting victims(AP Photo/Ben Gray)Shortly after his mother was killed in the Atlanta-area shootings, Randy Park launched a GoFundMe page asking for $20,000 to pay for funeral expenses. For now, donors to victims of the Atlanta shootings must scour individual GoFundMe accounts. A page for Yong Yue’s family drew more than $115,000. AdPark's family was the first to launch a GoFundMe page. This is simply a change in my life,” Park wrote to the 70,000 people who had contributed as of Sunday afternoon.