GoFundMe, the now-ubiquitous website used for generating donations that support individual causes, is expanding into a more formal infrastructure for both donors and recipients. The company, which ...

Late in 2012 Eliza O'Neill, a lively, talkative 3-year-old growing up in Columbia, S.C., started stumbling over her words. "Something was just not right," recalls her father, Glenn, then a procurement ...

Four states are investigating GoFundMe after the fundraising service banned donations to an organization of truckers protesting COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in Canada. Texas Attorney General Ken ...

Gen Z’s “superpower” is social sharing, and it’s using it to drive donations to GoFundMe. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) Thirteen-year-old Kya Foss wanted to raise money for ...

The crowdfunding company, which says $15 billion has been raised on its site since 2010, is often used to help families and groups after tragedy, but has also been used to solicit donations for ...

It’s a natural instinct, and one of our better qualities as humans: We see something unspeakable happen, even to a stranger, and we want to help. Less than 24 hours after shocking video of Robert ...

In June 2016, Chauncy Black rode the bus from his home in South Memphis to one of the city’s whiter, wealthier neighborhoods. The 16-year-old helped his grandmother pay the bills by doing odd jobs for ...

GoFundMe is one of the largest crowdfunding platforms in the United States, but over recent years, the company has faced scrutiny for its content moderation policies. The platform has rules for ...

As the Eaton fire swept through Altadena, California, Mai-Lin Graves came to a brutal realization: The victims were people she grew up with. “That’s my old elementary school teacher, that’s the person ...

A 110-year-old World War II veteran in Texas was able to remain in his home last year after his family raised nearly $200,000 online to pay for his nursing care. A Harvard-bound teen in Compton, Calif ...

Campaigns on the crowdfunding site raised more money for wildfire survivors with high incomes than for those who need help most, researchers found. By Christopher Flavelle Christopher Flavelle writes ...