Stories of three fundraising campaigns that illustrate the complexities of the GoFundMe ecosystem, where 50M people have donated $5B+ through 2017
in june 2016, Chauncy Black rode the bus from his home in South Memphis to one of the city's whiter, wealthier neighborhoods. Tweets: @lizgreenspan , @theatlantic , @theatlantic , @theatlantic , @valoriecrooks , @jessesingal , and @jigolden Tweets: Elizabeth Greenspan / @lizgreenspan : Powerful, fascinating article by @rachmonroe about what happens when pain goes viral, & when it doesn't. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : In an era when membership in churches, labor unions, and other civic organizations has flatlined, GoFundMe offers a way to help and be helped by your figurative neighbor. But there are limits to those well-intentioned campaigns, writes @rachmonroe. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : Comparing the hits and misses of GoFundMe campaigns reveals a lot about what matters most to us, our divisions and our connections, our generosity and our pettiness, writes @rachmonroe. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : GoFundMe has become the largest crowdfunding platform in the world. But even its blockbuster successes, @rachmonroe writes, can quickly get ugly. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Valorie Crooks / @valoriecrooks : Our research on inequities in #medicalcrowdfunding is literally referred to as “hogwash” by @gofundme CEO in this new piece in @TheAtlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Jesse Singal / @jessesingal : 1/ I want to make a specific point about this @TheAtlantic article about GoFundMe, but first: READ IT READ IT READ IT. It's just so good and sad and powerful — one of those pieces that captures our whole big depressing messy country through one very https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Jenna Golden / @jigolden : GoFundMe has always made me uncomfortable and this article does a good job of explaining why: GoFundMe campaigns blend the well-intentioned with the cringeworthy, and not infrequently bring to mind the “White Savior Industrial Complex” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...