We launched a Weather Resilience Fund to help address the outsized impact extreme weather events have on vulnerable individuals and communities. We’re doing this because we have seen the need for natural disaster relief on the GoFundMe platform increase:
- Since 2018, more than $500 million of help has been delivered for natural disaster relief fundraisers through the GoFundMe platform;
- Over the past 5 years, there has been a 90% increase in fundraisers following natural disasters on GoFundMe;
- In that time, GoFundMe.org has distributed over $6.2 million to GoFundMe fundraisers via more than 7,000 grants through our Hurricane and Wildfire Relief Funds.
GoFundMe, Inc. has made a $2M contribution to kick off this fund. This contribution will enable us to conduct a pilot program for approximately 250 households in California’s Central and Imperial Valleys. Working with community-based partners, we will distribute energy solutions and resources to households in these communities – helping them withstand and adapt to the extreme heat and poor air quality they experience. As this fund grows, we will invest in additional resilience projects in communities across the country that are vulnerable to extreme weather events.
