To help fight fraud, GoFundMe created an online hub that contains verified fundraising pages related to the L.A.-area wildfires.
Collectively, they’d raised more than $100 million as of Tuesday evening, a GoFundMe spokesperson told me. (The company did not immediately respond when asked where the totals currently stand.) In recent days,
Impact of Gofundme on Wildfire Relief
Kayleigh Dalrymple’s family is seeking donations through a GoFundMe effort after she died in a car accident Friday night. Five other teenagers were riding in a Jeep along with 14-year-old Dalrymple when the driver lost control and struck a group of trees near the Marshall-Peoria County line in Chillicothe,
More than $100 million has been donated to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires through GoFundMe campaigns — the popular crowdfunding platform that verifies all accounts to protect against scams.
After Palisades natives banded together on WhatsApp and raised more than $120,000 on GoFundMe, they face what experts say has become a common scenario after natural disasters: Unexpected scrutiny and challenges as they attempt to manage and distribute the funds.
The star is currently in a facility in New York, where she is able to call her loved ones, but they are unable to call her.
A woman charged with torture is accused of poisoning a 1-year-old girl to garner sympathy and make thousands of dollars off GoFundMe donations
An Alaska Airlines flight attendant says she was “wrongfully fired” after participating in a social media challenge and posting the video online. However, she has started a GoFundMe earlier this month after losing her job—and it has social media in an uproar.
Touched by personal stories of anguish and loss from the fires, donors have sent tens of millions of dollars directly to families in Los Angeles via crowdfunding. These competing pleas for generosity have uneven results.
As 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
A GoFundMe page created to pay for memorial services for Joann Garelli has reached its fundraising goal in one week.