"GoFundMe can be ... the government aid is designed to help cover some of the needs that insurance doesn’t. In addition to FEMA grants, the Small Business Administration offers low-interest ...

You can request a withdrawal of funds after your campaign starts, with transfers typically taking anywhere from two to five business ... GoFundMe also has an advantage over other official sources ...

“We review each application to ensure you receive the aid for which you are eligible,” said the statement from the spokesperson. “If you receive money from a GoFundMe page for a specific ...

For those lucky small-business owners whose ... will be limited when aid has already been collected via another source, such as insurance or GoFundMe. “Just like we can’t give you money ...

Insurance companies were increasingly dropping business ... Lehman says GoFundMe sees itself as filling in the hopefully small gaps left by other, more substantial forms of aid.

A statement posted on the group’s GoFundMe page states that it is “an effort to aid the restoration of ... 20% to displaced family relief, 20% to business subsidies and 5% to the Los Angeles ...

A growing body of research has shown that GoFundMe amplifies existing biases within aid and, in some cases ... at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. “Why are some people raising so ...

Published Feb. 9, 2025Updated Feb. 11, 2025 As the chief executive of the crowdfunding site GoFundMe ... not be fully covered by other sources of aid,” reads the text of the fund-raiser.