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GoFundMe donates to GoFundMe that’s trolling another GoFundMe

sudshr47 March 29, 2019

We forgive you if you’re feeling a bit confused.

GoFundMe, the company, just donated $5,000 to a GoFundMe campaign set up to both counter and troll yet another GoFundMe campaign. But wait, it gets even weirder. In this convoluted battle of the GoFundMes, the tech company comes down on the humane side.

Welcome to San Francisco, 2019, where nothing makes sense, but you can still count on the city to collectively thumb its nose at some cartoonishly awful jerks.

According to SF Weekly, this all started with a group of wealthy San Francisco residents uniting to oppose the construction of a Navigation Center — think of it as a more comprehensive homeless shelter that offers services and counseling as well as a place to sleep — in their mostly fancy neighborhood. Read more…

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Anti-vaxxers can no longer raise money on GoFundMe

sudshr47 March 22, 2019

GoFundMe is cracking down on anti-vaxxers.

The popular fundraising website says it will no longer allow anti-vaccine groups and activists to raise money to spread anti-vaccination conspiracies on its platform, according to a statement provided to The Daily Beast.

“Campaigns raising money to promote misinformation about vaccines violate GoFundMe’s terms of service and will be removed from the platform,” said GoFundMe spokesperson Bobby Whithorne in a similar statement provided to Mashable.

The company’s policies state that “products that make health claims that have not been approved or verified” by regulatory bodies are prohibited from using its service. Read more…

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Internet raises $160,000 for restaurant owner from ‘Fyre’ Netflix doc

sudshr47 January 22, 2019

Even if you missed the news about Fyre Festival when it went viral back in 2017, chances are you’ll have heard the name again recently.
The disastrous cancelled music festival, which led to bankruptcy, widespread money loss and a six-year prison sent…

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GoFundMe launches official campaign for workers impacted by government shutdown

sudshr47 January 21, 2019

GoFundMe is partnering with Deepak Chopra to launch a different kind of campaigns. The company is going beyond its usual role as a platform and hosting its own campaign to provide relief for government workers impacted by the current government shutdown. The company is partnering with several nonprofit organizations that are providing support to government […]

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GoFundMe will refund donations to campaign for Trump’s border wall

sudshr47 January 11, 2019

A GoFundMe campaign launched last month to pay for President Trump’s border wall raised over $20 million from more than 300,000 donors. But that wasn’t nearly enough.
Brian Kolfage assured donors Friday that because the campaign didn’t reach it…

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That GoFundMe to build a border wall is issuing $20 million in refunds

sudshr47 January 11, 2019

A Trump-inspired GoFundMe campaign that raised $20 million ostensibly to build a wall on the southern U.S. border will refund every cent. Run by Brian Kolfage, a veteran with a track record of questionable business practices, the project defied all logistical considerations with its proposal for a “simple and straightforward” plan to build the wall. That […]

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There’s now a hilarious GoFundMe to build escalators over Trump’s border wall

sudshr47 December 21, 2018

One sharp-minded denizen of the world wide web has stepped up to meet the furor over the GoFundMe campaign to fund President Trump’s long-sought border wall with one of his own: funding an escalator that scales that wall.

It’s a brilliant bit of trolling from Boston-based freelance journalist Luke O’Neil whose newsletter, “Hell World,” dives into the intersection of cruelty and stupidity. It perfectly encapsulates something like a GoFundMe campaign to build a border wall for a president who promised Mexico — not taxpayers — would pay for it.

LETS DO THIS COME ON PATRIOTS pic.twitter.com/SuIbL2hyZJ

— luke o’neil (@lukeoneil47) December 20, 2018 Read more…

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Trump’s border wall gets a GoFundMe campaign that’s trying to raise $1 billion

sudshr47 December 20, 2018

President Trump has so far failed to secure funding for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, so now his most ardent supporters are trying to pay for it themselves.
Earlier this week, a GoFundMe campaign that aims to raise one billion …

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Time’s Up tops list of most successful GoFundMe campaigns in 2018

sudshr47 December 6, 2018

GoFundMe, the world’s largest social fundraising platform, released its annual “Year in Giving” report for 2018, which includes data about the most generous U.S. states and cities, global trends, and best of all, the top fundraisers by the numbers.

The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, founded to provide legal support to people who have experienced sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, raised $22 million to become the largest GoFundMe campaign of all time.

The top 10 fundraisers of 2018 collectively raised $58 million. Nearly two-thirds of people who donated to GoFundMe campaigns were first-time donors. Not only were people eager to give, they were also quick. A fundraiser for the Humboldt Broncos, a hockey team in Canada involved in a fatal bus crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 others, received 1.9 million views in the first 24 hours. Read more…

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