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GoFundMe

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Online social fundraising for nonprofits, companies & events

About GoFundMe

GoFundMe (formerly known as CrowdRise) is an online fundraising tool for nonprofits, businesses, and events organizers with tools for social fundraising, event planning, ticketing, donations management, custom landing page building, and more. The cloud-based solution was built specifically for nonprofit and event fundraisers and can be used for organizing and collecting donations for runs, walks, cycles, and other charity events.

With solutions for online social fundraising, nonprofit event fundraising, nonprofit run, walk, and cycle fundraising, and peer-to-peer fundraising, GoFundMe aims to offer a tool to aid collaboration, participation, and giving. The social fundraising module facilitates the creation of branded and customized fundraising campaigns, which can be launched across social media platforms, email, SMS, and more to raise awareness. The SocialAmp sharing tool also optimizes posts and campaign pages to reach more people, and posts are mobile optimized so that viewers get the same experience from any device.

Fundraising pages can be set up and customized with company branding, logos, colors, images, and text, and pages can combine registration, donation giving, progress tracking, and more. A custom branded event page allows donors to make pledges, pay electronically, sign up for events, and access all information about the campaign. Participants can register for fundraising events, such as walks, runs, and cycles, as individuals or as teams, and leaderboards provide gamification for teams. CrowdRise integrates with third-party registration platforms including Eventbrite and Active.com in order to facilitate registrations, and CRM tools such as Salesforce can be connected for managing attendee and donor data.


Key benefits of GoFundMe

  • Benefit from unlimited peer-to-peer fundraising by giving peer fundraisers the ability to share events and donation pages with their friends on social accounts.

  • Integrate ticketing and registration into fundraising pages by creating an all-in-one online campaign page with registration forms for donors, and ticket selling features.

  • Create DIY event landing pages for fundraising and events, and customize the web page with branding, logos, colors, text, images, videos, and more.

  • Benefit from in-depth analytics and reporting on donors, fundraisers, and organization performance, as well as reports on specific event performance.

  • Integrate CrowdRise with third party CRM and data tools including Salesforce, Google Analytics, and more, as well as registration tools including Eventbrite and Active.com.

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    GoFundMe Software - Event pages can be created with a ticket link for attendees to purchase online
    GoFundMe Software - Allow participants to share their stories within a DIY landing page
    GoFundMe Software - Analytics and reports can be generated for events, in order to assess donations
    GoFundMe Software - Benefit from the CrowdRise Social Amp feature to enhance and optimize social sharing
    GoFundMe Software - Users can share donation pages on Facebook and Twitter
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    Overall rating

    4.3 /5
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    4.3/5
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    • Industry: Religious Institutions
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    GoFundMe is a non-profits dream

    Reviewed on 15/7/2021

    It was a positive one. As I said, their very helpful if you have trouble with anything on the...

    It was a positive one. As I said, their very helpful if you have trouble with anything on the platform, and it's a great way to help people.

    Pros

    The whole platform is helpful, as it's an easy way to help a charity raise money, and get people the help they need. Customer service is as well, though with a few bad eggs. It doesn't stop from using it again and again, though.

    Cons

    Customer service. Not every worker is rude, but there are a few bad eggs that will be extremely rude and unhelpful.

    Brandon
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    • Industry: Individual & Family Services
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Go fund me review

    Reviewed on 24/3/2025

    i have had a great experience with gofundme

    i have had a great experience with gofundme

    Pros

    the ability to make it easy to post when someone needs help

    Cons

    not being able to put as much detail in the asking

    Laura
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    • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    GoFundMe not trustworthy

    Reviewed on 6/2/2022

    I feel betrayed. I will never donate on GoFundMe ever again!

    I feel betrayed. I will never donate on GoFundMe ever again!

    Pros

    I used to like GoFundMe and regularly donated, but no more.

    Cons

    GoFundMe said the Freedom Convoy was violent and a threat and GoFundMe said they would keep over $10 million in donations and distribute the money to charities of their choosing. This is so wrong! Then due to public outcry, GoFundMe said they will return all donations. Too late, they are no longer trustworthy especially since GoFundMe allowed violent groups to collect donations through GoFundMe, groups that last summer rioted, burnt cars and buildings, looted and ransacked businesses, beat people up, etc. Not acceptable behavior for a business, to support such activities and such groups!

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    • Industry: Consumer Goods
    • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
    • Used for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Best in class

    Reviewed on 24/7/2021

    GoFundMe is best in class in simple fundraising.

    GoFundMe is best in class in simple fundraising.

    Pros

    All the features you need to set up your fundraising website, ask for and manage donations, and access your donations for your mission are seamlessly integrated.

    Cons

    There were a few "donors" who were not donors but trying to reach the person who was in need for social reasons.

    Rachael
    Rachael
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    • Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

    Great for individual and team fundraising campaigns

    Reviewed on 5/11/2019

    At the end of the day, we decided to switch to Classy as it was a more integrated fundraising...

    At the end of the day, we decided to switch to Classy as it was a more integrated fundraising platform. Crowdrise didn't have enough general donation processing/management tools that we wanted in a fundraising platform.

    Pros

    We liked to use crowdrise for individual fundraising campaigns centered around 1 specific goal or event. Our fundraisers used it for raising money as they did a race, for a specific program, or for raising money to go on an international missions trip. It's great for college students to create peer to peer campaigns for example.

    Cons

    I did not like how this integrated with our website (or rather the lack thereof).

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    GoFundMe FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for GoFundMe.

    GoFundMe offers the following pricing plans:

    • Pricing model: Free Version
    • Free Trial: Available

    GoFundMe has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    GoFundMe supports the following languages:

    English

    GoFundMe supports the following devices:

    GoFundMe integrates with the following applications:

    Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT, Eventbrite, Google Analytics 360, Kindful, Salesforce Sales Cloud

    GoFundMe offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep)

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