New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms · 2 Apr 2018 · 416pp · 100,130 words
≠ vital “In July of 2013, our 4-year-old daughter Eliza was diagnosed with a rare terminal genetic disease called Sanfilippo Syndrome-Type A,” the GoFundMe campaign began. “In one terrifying instant, we were told that we would have to watch her fade away before our eyes.” This bleak story came
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, could run a clinical trial. Eliza’s parents, Glenn and Cara O’Neill, set $2 million as the target for their campaign, more than anything GoFundMe had previously been used to raise. Initial progress was slow: they found it hard to get beyond their own social networks. In desperation one night
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,” like education, a debate is brewing. Is crowdfunding for things like textbooks helping kids—or actually hurting public education by taking the heat off government? GoFundMe has become the biggest crowdfunding site in the United States in large part because it has become a way for people in distress to raise
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Brewdog Sells 22% of Firm to Private Equity House,” The Guardian, April 9, 2017. “In July of 2013”: Eliza O’Neill’s GoFundMe page, “Saving Eliza,” July 2017. www.gofundme.com/ElizaONeill. “Hope is a nice word”: “This video will save a little girl’s life: #SavingEliza,” YouTube video, posted by “VonWong
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, November 13, 2015. “Or as some would call it”: Jonathan Zittrain, Twitter post, January 19, 2016, 6:32 a.m. www.twitter.com/zittrain. GoFundMe has become: GoFundMe, “Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites,” July 2017. www.crowdfunding.com. “people understand the game”: Nehkara, discussion with authors. The following Nehkara quotes also come from
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words
on social media platforms. Others die without fame or recognition, and their families need to raise money for burials through crowdfunding campaigns on platforms like GoFundMe.22 Just as there are unmarked graves on New York’s Hart Island for the most marginalized in society and elaborate monuments to the wealthy
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precarious forms of gig or freelance work as opposed to full-time employment and are a way of racking up debt.25 Individuals who use GoFundMe, Venmo, Cash App, and other digital payment systems are subject to companies’ terms of service and algorithmic risk assessments rather than legacy institutions’ rules and
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who are unable to prepare for their own burials. Because of institutional malevolence or abandonment, compassionate volunteers donate to campaigns on platforms like Kickstarter or GoFundMe to bury the unfortunate dead.26 Crowdfunding has itself become an after-the-fact, ad hoc form of life insurance. Like many other aspects of
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Zoom have made people more dependent on platforms than ever before, while exacerbating inequalities. Platforms, too, have shifted to accommodate a period of mass death. GoFundMe updated its UX (user experience) design to make mourning users feel more at ease while they are raising money for funerals and memorials. The crowdfunding
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of mutual aid, such as providing masks or food to protestors or contributing to bail funds through commercial payment systems like Venmo, Kickstarter, PayPal, and GoFundMe, provided a way to contribute to collective care movements. Crowdfunded funerals and memorial services can help ensure that people have dignity in death. In this
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. 86. See Jackson, Becoming Human, for a rich theorization of posthumanism based on histories of anti-Blackness and racialized maternity. Conclusion 1. Del Valle, “How GoFundMe’s New Pages Take a Sensitive Approach to Grief.” See also this Facebook post: “Request to Memorialize or Remove an Account,” www.facebook.com/help
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Future of Work Seen through Amazon Patents.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 46, no. 3 (2020). doi.org/10.1177/0162243920943665. Del Valle, Rachel. “How GoFundMe’s New Pages Take a Sensitive Approach to Grief.” Fast Company, May 23, 2022. www.fastcompany.com/90749469/how
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-gofundmes-new-pages-take-a-sensitive-approach-to-grief. Denton, Nick. “Facebook: The Virginia Tech Shootings.” Valleywag, April 17, 2007. valleywag.com/tech/Facebook/the-virginia-
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, (i)n46 The Gift (Mauss), (i) gift giving, (i) Gig Workers Collective, (i) Gilliard, Chris, (i)n27 GitHub, (i) glitches, (i). See also death glitches GoFundMe, (i), (ii) Going with Grace, (i) Goldstein, Daniel, (i), (ii) The Good Ancestor (Krznaric), (i) Google, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) Google+, (i) GraphicSprings, (i)n32
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream
by Alissa Quart · 14 Mar 2023 · 304pp · 86,028 words
shifted the burden of our survival almost entirely onto their backs, preferring the half solutions of big philanthropies or charity such as crowdsourcing efforts like GoFundMe—not a social service provider!—to offering permanent public childcare or a supported health-care system. The happy news, though, is that our country is
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Yourself JAMES FAUNTLEROY DOES not like depending on what he considers charity, but he has had to for the last few years, on the site GoFundMe. “I’m reluctantly asking for assistance until I find something that can supplement my income,” he writes. “This is a challenge, though, but at least
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during an intermission. This filmed occasion went viral. And when the pandemic hit, Americans’ dependence on the dystopian social safety net only grew. Families used GoFundMe to underwrite their food costs while they stayed at coronavirus isolation hotels or to pay for Zoom funerals after COVID deaths. Others campaigned for essential
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workers, for beloved bookstores and restaurants set to close. A GoFundMe page raised over $50,000 for two Black FedEx drivers who claimed they were fired over a viral video confrontation with a customer in May
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on crowdfunding sites if we are to get what we need. Fauntleroy was one of the army of people mounting these performances of self on GoFundMe as if it were a state program; it was not just for his medical care or to fix the car but also to pay for
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the small apartment he and his mother share. The need is so great, in fact, that GoFundMe and disability are not enough, and each month to cover their rent he had to take out a payday loan from Amscot, a chain that
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in insurance coverage overall, health-care costs continued to plague many Americans, and in 2017, eleven million Americans said they had had “catastrophic medical expenses.” GoFundMe, created in 2010 with lighter campaigns in mind, has become a major social service provider: it has gotten to the point where even the company
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’s founder complained publicly about GoFundMe’s new role: Robert Solomon, the CEO of GoFundMe, told CBS in 2019, “We weren’t ever set up to be a health-care company, and we still are not
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.” The public school system, Medicaid, SNAP, and . . . GoFundMe? It can seem as if these are the branches of today’s American welfare system. Fauntleroy’s was just one of the roughly 250,000
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GoFundMe campaigns related to medical care in 2018, and as of September 2020 more than $625 million had been raised for these COVID-19 relief campaigns.
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Even before the pandemic, one-third of all GoFundMe campaigns—approximately $7 million in 2018—were for unpaid medical expenses, according to the company’s CEO. According to NORC, at the University of Chicago
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five figures, but others have noted that averages are in the range of $400,000 to $1.4 million. These needs are so pervasive that GoFundMe even offered tips for how to squeeze what you can out of strangers and friends, advising “A great campaign story.” That story, the company wrote
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, “will outline your cause clearly, in a way that is engaging to read . . . all while speaking from the heart.” GoFundMe’s American dystopian mode includes commodifying our suffering for entertainment; we are forced into social performance, like actors, learning lines that are beggarly, with plaintive
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intonations, a veritable bazaar of pain. Another striking example was Annie Hanshew, who raised money on GoFundMe for school lunches. (Youth hunger is another thing addressed pretty frequently by the dystopian social safety net. Even before the pandemic, 640 colleges and universities
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debtors actually qualified for either free or reduced lunch: she knew that this move would further burden area low-income families. She then went on GoFundMe and saw that citizens in Seattle and Fargo were using the site to raise money for school lunches in their community. These efforts were designed
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in a world of ordeals and forms and social media charity campaigns to survive. As Hanshew told me of her specific school lunch battle and GoFundMe campaign: “In a perfect world, kids would just get meals without means testing. But I am so used to this reality that I can’t
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, got a glimpse of the fantasy future he had been living for, one where Sanders’s universal health care would then be passed into law. GoFundMe could go back to doing what it was intended for—paying for film projects and weddings—rather than covering so much of America’s medical
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money again badly. He was considering selling some of his things on eBay: dress shirts, polos, suits, and blazers, and maybe eventually putting up another GoFundMe. While Sanders had lost, Fauntleroy was still primarily receiving emotional support and even sometimes physical support from other Sanders supporters and enthusiasts he often barely
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and then subsequently reenrolled. That pointless pattern essentially came to an end. One way to advance from where we are, and away from dependence on GoFundMe, is to spread the recognition that “the administrative burden” represents a systemic injustice and get this message to those who actually suffer from it: the
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-catastrophic-health-care-costs. as of September 2020, more than $625 million had been raised: Alison Van Houten, “GoFundMe: Enabling Giving,” TIME, April 26, 2021, https://time.com/collection/time100-companies/5953754/gofundme-disruptors/. 640 colleges and universities operated food pantries on campus: As of May 2018, 640 food pantries were registered
Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
by Rebecca Walker · 15 Mar 2022 · 322pp · 106,663 words
cost of therapy sessions for Black women and girls, to make mental health care more accessible. I remember sitting in a Starbucks uptown developing the GoFundMe and thinking, This will be really cool, I hope my followers show up. And they did! In the first twenty-four hours, we raised ten
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waiting for me to put aside my pride. With shaking hands, I entered my banking info on a site I did not know well, called GoFundMe, and hit Send. I avoided my email for a good day. The text, partially composed by others, read: Dear friends, A few weeks ago, after
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other night, another donation of $100 came in. This time, 784 people raised $57,865 dollars in twelve months on GoFundMe, plus $27,000 on YouCaring, before it merged with GoFundMe. This time, the text and many updates were written by my friend, the writer Janice Lee, who with the help of
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and ’80s, when I was glued to watching as a young immigrant studying my new country. In reading her obituaries, it shocked me that a GoFundMe campaign had recently been made for her, reaching $66,181. “Valerie has been grateful over the years for the medical breakthroughs along this difficult journey
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by insurance. This is just part of the daily cost that is without a doubt a financial burden that could never be met alone. This GoFundMe initiative from Tony is to ensure she receives the best care possible.” In 2018, another childhood favorite of mine, Dawn Wells—Mary Ann of Gilligan
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’s Island—had a GoFundMe set up without her knowing. Her close friend set it up after she had broken her knee and was recovering from a major surgery where
Radicalized
by Cory Doctorow · 19 Mar 2019 · 444pp · 84,486 words
wife and best friend to grow old with. He wanted to sell the house and borrow more money from friends and family and do a GoFundMe, but Lacey wouldn’t hear it. She pointed out that everything they—and all their immediate families—could spare wouldn’t touch that $1.5
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do his best to untwist them. He kept a list of suicide-prevention numbers handy, and he gave a measured, routine twenty dollars to each GoFundMe that was posted to the forum. Even at that modest contribution level, there was one month when the family
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GoFundMe bill crossed the $500 mark, and Lacey demanded to know what he was doing, and he told a half truth, saying it was for a
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friends’). Lacey couldn’t be angry over that, but she gave him a stern talking-to about their finances, and he agreed to cap the GoFundMe to $250/month, and she agreed to let him donate $300 in each election cycle to candidates who were pro-universal health care. He stayed
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17. If my ex had a dollar to spare, it’d go to oxys, before the student-debt collectors could get it. I have a GoFundMe, but that only works if you know a million people or one millionaire. My kid is the greatest thing in the world, but everyone thinks
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
by Jordan Thomas · 27 May 2025 · 347pp · 105,327 words
to the fire. Two firefighters had suffered career-ending injuries the day prior. Aoki told us their names and encouraged us to contribute to their GoFundMe accounts. He remained stoic, but for him, this was personal. He told us that donations were the only way he had stayed financially afloat after
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his side as he died because of support from a nonprofit, and she was relying on GoFundMe to get by. The more I looked, the more I found. Dozens of federal firefighters had set up GoFundMe pages to help them recover from torn tendons, broken pelvises, snapped spines, seizures, and heart attacks
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Just Cheer Wildland Firefighters as Heroes. Give Them Affordable Healthcare,” Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2020; also see Brianna Sacks, “Wildland Firefighters Are Relying on GoFundMe to Survive After Getting Injured on the Job,” BuzzFeed, December 13, 2021. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT wife had been charged: Sacks, “Wildland Firefighters
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Are Relying on GoFundMe to Survive After Getting Injured on the Job.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT file for bankruptcy: Sacks, “Wildland Firefighters Are Relying on
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GoFundMe to Survive After Getting Injured on the Job.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Since the early 1970s: For reference, see Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, “(Mis)
The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
by Jenny Kleeman · 13 Mar 2024 · 334pp · 96,342 words
of every person killed, regardless of where they were from, or what weapon took their life. There were also individual grassroots campaigns on JustGiving and GoFundMe for the families of victims. When Sara was still a missing person, one of Mark and Julie’s friends set up a
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GoFundMe that raised nearly AU$24,000 (£13,700) in a little over two weeks. Roy Larner, the Lion of London Bridge, may have got nothing
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kin ‘London Bridge/Borough Market Attack’, London Emergncies Trust. https://londonemergenciestrust.org.uk/how-we-helped/london-bridgeborough-market-attack a GoFundMe that raised nearly AU$24,000 https://www.gofundme.com/f/wpgbg-london-terror-affects-local-family $4.4 million in charitable donations ‘Fund raises $6.3 million for victims
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Gigi (domestic worker) ref1, ref1, ref2, ref3 GiveWell ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8 Giving What We Can ref1 gladiators, Roman Empire ref1 GoFundMe ref1, ref2 Goncalves, Priscila ref1, ref2 Gore, Stephen ref1, ref2 Gotti Jr, John ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 Gotti Sr, John ref1, ref2 Government Accountability Office
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
he couldn’t keep stealing traffic cones, nor could he keep dipping into his own pocket to pay for potted flowers, so he launched a GoFundMe campaign. In his appeal to donors, he cited Boston city government’s “complete lack of will to do what is required to protect the safety
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-lane-plans-install-more/rhH0HV94d1mpImKPy8vfJO/story.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “complete lack of will to do what is required”: Jonathan Fertig, GoFundMe, September 9, 2015, gofundme.com/f/flowerlanes. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Fertig raised $1,100 in just two days: Geffen Semach, “A Commuter Created a
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
. Other San Franciscans were getting paid to fearmonger about San Francisco’s problems—some more openly than others. In January 2021, Jason Calacanis created a GoFundMe to raise $75,000 to “hold the DA of SF accountable to the people of SF” by hiring a journalist to write about Boudin.16
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posted about a misconceived connection between Duran and George Soros (there was none), was being paid by some of Tan’s political allies via a GoFundMe launched by venture capitalist Jason Calacanis while also receiving funds from Neighbors for a Better San Francisco.12 Duran had bigger concerns than who might
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-recall-and-elon-musks/id1532976305?i=1000565554174 15 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meth-dog-poop-san-francisco-twitter-1234578291/ 16 https://www.gofundme.com/f/report-on-chesa-boudin-san-francisco-crime 17 https://x.com/Jason/status/1367933210156404736 18 https://x.com/Jason/status/1673102313945440256 19 https
Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
by Rose Hackman · 27 Mar 2023
as catalyzing reasons in two-thirds of personal bankruptcy filings.5 Which is not to say Americans do not care. In 2019, the CEO of GoFundMe, Rob Solomon, said that one-third of the donations on his fundraising sites were related to campaigns to cover medical bills.6 According to its
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own website, GoFundMe claimed it hosted over 250,000 medical campaigns a year, raising more than $650 million.7 Americans are prepared to give individually, but the United
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Act,” American Journal of Public Health 109, no. 3 (March 1, 2019): 431–33, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304901. 6. Gina Martinez, “GoFundMe CEO: One-Third of Fundraisers Are for Medical Costs,” Time, updated January 30, 2019, accessed May 11, 2021, https://time.com/5516037
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/gofundme-medical-bills-one-third-ceo/. 7. “Get Help with Medical Fundraising,” GoFundMe.com, accessed May 11, 2021, https://www.gofundme.com/start/medical-fundraising. 8. Singapore may be a possible, arguable exception, but average health-care
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