GoFundMe donates $75,000 to 75 campaigns for Canada 150

GoFundMe | by: Bradley Shankar | July 6, 2017

GoFundMe has announced it has donated $75,000 CAD to campaigns it says are impactful across Canada, in celebration of the country’s 150th anniversary.

The crowdfunding service donated $1,000 each to 75 different campaigns that aim to help such causes as medical treatment, helping to build a school, supporting Indigenous midwives and rescuing animals.

See: Courtesy of GoFundMe, crowdfunding now comes a guarantee, of sorts.  

Some of the campaigns that GoFundMe has supported include:

• Reed Curtis Burningham, a 21-year-old diagnosed with Burkitt Lymphoma — a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Sexual Assault Prevention On Tour, which looks to address sexual violence towards women at music festivals across North America
• Leteeshas [sic] Cancer Treatment Fund, to benefit 24-year-old Lateesha Cseri, who suffers from a rare form of breast cancer and gave birth to a girl last year
• Canada150 Bike Ride for Soldier On, which supports veterans suffering from PTSD or other war-related injuries
• Therapy Services For Lily, who has a rare genetic disorder known as 2q37 deletion syndrome, which causes heart and kidney problems, among other complications

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