YouCaring
Type of site | Crowdfunding |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
YouCaring is a free crowdfunding website for personal and charitable causes. YouCaring runs entirely on donations and does not charge a fee for their platform, though their donation processors (PayPal, WePay, and Stripe) charge fees.[1][2][3]
Notable Fundraisers
- Musical group Doomtree created a YouCaring campaign for rapper P.O.S to help cover the secondary costs associated with a kidney transplant.[4]
- Science fiction author Jay Lake used the website to pay for whole genome sequencing, towards the "small possibility that the results of such a test...may suggest a treatment path"[5] for his colon cancer, which since 2008 has "progressed from a single tumor to metastatic disease affecting the lung and liver, recurring after multiple surgeries and chemotherapy courses."[5] After his successful campaign, Lake publicly criticized Paypal for the terms and processes the company uses when it thinks there's a fraud risk.[6] His experience was cited in news coverage over Paypal's public promise to introduce "aggressive changes" to its frozen funds policy.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Kayleigh Kulp, “Need Cash for Health Care? Ask!: How crowdfunding websites can help you pay for expenses”, AARP, June 2012.
- ^ Kayleigh Kulp, “How to Use Crowdfunding to Cover Health-Care Bills”, Fox Business, 27 April, 2012.
- ^ Eliza Barclay, “The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills”, NPR, 24 October, 2012.
- ^ Lily Rothman, “Musician Health Care Crisis: Rapper P.O.S. Crowdfunds New Kidney”, Time, 1 November 2012
- ^ a b "Sequence a Science Fiction Writer". YouCaring. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ^ a b Pepitone, Julianne (January 21, 2013). "PayPal: 'Aggressive changes' coming to frozen funds policy". CNNMoney.com. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
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