GoFundMe launches a donation hub for Ukraine relief efforts.

GoFundMe launches a donation hub for Ukraine relief efforts

Donations made to the fundraisers shown on the hub will be verified by GoFundMe's Trust & Safety team.

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In response to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, GoFundMe has launched a centralized hub for verified fundraisers looking to raise money for humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

The hub currently hosts fundraisers that range from supporting large aid organizations like Save the Children to raising funds for specific families in Ukraine. All fundraisers hosted on the official hub have been verified by GoFundMe's global Trust & Safety team, which monitors the larger GoFundMe site in order to identify and validate fundraisers made in response to crises.

The landing page of GoFundMe's donation hub for Ukraine. Credit: Screenshot: GoFundMe

According to a blog post from GoFundMe, the Trust & Safety team is a large and diverse team that makes up a quarter of the organization, and it works to verify personal information and the identity of recipients in order to make sure that donations are sent to the right place. To do this, GoFundMe says it uses proprietary tools on par with those used by the financial industry that requires "government-issued identification, address details, and other forms of ID."

To be considered verified and therefore hosted on the donation hub, GoFundMe and the Trust & Safety team must know "the identity of the organizer, who they are raising funds for, the organizer’s relationship to the recipient of the funds, and how the funds will be used." The company holds on to "all funds raised until the recipient is added to the fundraiser to withdraw [their money], and their identity has been confirmed."

If a fundraiser hosted on GoFundMe is not on the hub or officially verified, that doesn't necessarily mean the campaign isn't valid; it's also possible that GoFundMe's payment processors have just not yet collected the necessary information, and delays like this may happen more often during a crisis like the one in Ukraine.                                             

In a larger blog post about how to help Ukraine generally, GoFundMe also states that fundraisers not allowed on its platform include "any war effort support, regardless of the country, which can include funding weapons, any supplies to soldiers, and propaganda" and "travel to the location to support military or propaganda efforts."

Comments

  1. Freeze this reckless father Frost once and for all!

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  2. Please verify and support if it's genuine

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  3. GoFundMe's Trust & Safety team..well, well. And who might that be. Names & numbers, right now.

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  4. I'll never give a dime true GoFundMe.

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  5. GOOD IDEA IF IT GOES TO THE RIGHT PLACE, POLAND HAS ALL THE REFUGEES, SENT SOME TO THEM

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  6. Impossible to trust any fund site nowadays.

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    1. or charities. poverty just never seem to end

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  7. I’m all for supporting Ukraine, but GoFundMe is a dangerous organization, as proven by what happened with the support people tried to give support to Canadian truckers. If you want your money to go to Ukraine, there has to be a safer way—for you.

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    1. Hello how are you doing today,,I apologize for the inconvenience. I saw your Facebook profil.an I was attracted to you by your profile, I am sending you a request but unfortunately it did not go through. If you don't mind, I want you to add me as a friend. I would like to see you as my friend..

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  8. Double standards ,World was sleeping and silent when US and Nato attacked ,bombed and murdered millions of innocent muslims in Afghanistan,Iraq,Libya,Syria, Lebanon.
    No Gofund was setup, No sanctions were imposed.India and Israel kill innocents every single day in Palestine and Kashmir but the world is silent .Shame Shame Shame .People just see what fake Western and US media show them ..
    Wake up people and condemn every single act of barbarism not just Ukrainian invasion.

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  9. Scroll Raider Robert Short

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    1. Hello how are you doing today,,I apologize for the inconvenience. I saw your Facebook profil.an I was attracted to you by your profile, I am sending you a request but unfortunately it did not go through. If you don't mind, I want you to add me as a friend. I would like to see you as my friend..

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    2. you liar! Leave me alone.

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    3. you called a liar

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    4. fake profile alert!!!

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  10. Go straight to the Charity and skip GoFundMe. There are plenty of established groups.

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  11. Go fund the narrative

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  12. Never trust GoFMe. Look what happened with the truckers. It would be safer to mail cash than to trust the creeps at GoFMe.

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  13. on a vue ça au canada !!

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  16. I'm guessing a GoFundMe to reward whoever takes out Putin would violate some law.

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  17. Same GoFundMe (aka GoStealYours) who stall money from the Canadian truckers?! F*** them!!!

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