When teenager Sara Eckhoff learned that wildfires had torched her childhood home in Los Angeles’s Palisades neighborhood, she quickly launched a GoFundMe page for her family. It wasn’t just ...

More than $100 million has been donated to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires through GoFundMe campaigns — the popular ...

Collectively, they’d raised more than $100 million as of Tuesday evening, a GoFundMe spokesperson told me. (The company did ...

Thirteen-year-old Kya Foss wanted to raise money for food and snacks for K-6 students after her North Dakota school district made budget cuts. Like many Gen Z-ers, she turned to the popular ...

Raising and distributing $30 billion since its founding, the privately held, for-profit site ... and managing the GoFundMe campaigns for them. Cookson observed similar inequalities in the ...

To help fight fraud, GoFundMe created an online hub that contains verified fundraising pages related to the L.A.-area ...

He and a few of his friends created a "One Love Altadena" GoFundMe campaign to help vulnerable Altadena residents displaced from the fires. "Altadena is such a diverse community with people from ...

Jan. 14, 2025 Like other well-intentioned organizers ... authorities urge the public to stick to established sites such as GoFundMe and Kickstarter and to be on the lookout for red flags ...

And residents need financial assistance right away. "Sometimes people turn into a crowdsourcing source like GoFundMe, but it's important to know that sometimes money from a GoFundMe can affect ...

When GoFundMe launched in 2010 ... they’ve been relying on the crowdfunding site to cover more basic needs like food and rent, rather than the originally lofty “ideas and dreams ...