YouCaring

https://www.youcaring.com/

Last activity: 11.04.2019

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YouCaring is the leader in free online fundraising. Our compassionate crowdfunding platform empowers people to help others overcome hardships and enjoy happier, healthier lives. We believe that kindness is powerful, which is why we provide free fundraising for humanitarian causes so more money finds its way to the right places, doing more good for more people. Launched in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, YouCaring has helped people raise more than $1 billion in support of individuals, families, communities and nonprofits looking to save lives, remember loved ones, recover from disasters, fund humanitarian efforts and much more. We make it free and easy to fundraise for good!

Our team is growing! If you believe in compassion, have a desire to help change the world for good, and want to work alongside a talented team of professionals from top-tier Fortune 100 companies, give us a shout.

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Location

United States, California, San Francisco

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51-200

Founded date

2011

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May 6, 2018	GoFundMe drives seek to help out Kauai flood victims	Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! COURTESY ASHLEY GUERRERO Mud and water from April flooding marred classrooms at the Aloha School Early Learning Center in Hanalei. A GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly ...
Apr 25, 2018	Ige dedicates day to imperiled ohia	COURTESY J.B. FRIDAY / UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII Brown patches in a forest near Malama Ki, Puna, on Hawaii island, are trees that have died from rapid ohia death. COURTESY J.B. FRIDAY / UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII Above, an ohia lehua flower in the rai...
Apr 3, 2018	GoFundMe acquires YouCaring as charitable crowdfunding continues to consolidate	GoFundMe, the startup that focuses on crowdfunding for charitable causes, has made another acquisition to scale up its platform: It has acquired YouCaring, a smaller rival, creating a combined community of around 60 million donors in some 1...
Mar 20, 2018	Maryland high school shooter is shot dead	ASSOCIATED PRESS Deputies and federal agents converged on Great Mills High School, the scene of a shooting, this morning in Great Mills, Md. The shooting left at least three people injured including the shooter. Authorities said the situati...
Mar 18, 2018	Join the Swat Team with a donation to save forest birds	COURTESY PHOTO The Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project is seeking to raise $50,000 to support the “Swat Team” that monitors the birds and conducts search-and-destroy missions against mosquito populations. “Save a Bird, Swat a Skeeter” is th...
Mar 1, 2018	GoFundMe relaunches nonprofit fundraising site CrowdRise	After acquiring CrowdRise over a year ago to double down on fundraising for non-profits, GoFundMe is today taking the wraps off a new product that will supercharge the service. CrowdRise by GoFundMe is a new version of the site that signifi...
Jan 25, 2018	YouCaring acquires Generosity.com as Indiegogo pulls out of personal causes fundraising	Some consolidation is underway in the world of crowdfunding and online fundraising: YouCaring — which competes with GoFundMe and others in the area of sourcing fundraising for compassionate and charitable causes — is buying Generosity.com f...
Jan 25, 2018	YouCaring Acquires Indiegogo’s Personal Cause Platform Generosity; Indiegogo Named YouCaring’s Entrepreneurial Fundraising Partner	YouCaring announced on Thursday it has acquired Indiegogo’s personal cause platform, Generosity. The online fundraising platform revealed along with the acquisition, it has formed a long-term partnership with the global crowdfunding platfor...
Jan 9, 2018	Cleveland founder shares what his startup community gets right and wrong	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! I’ve had a front-row seat to Cleveland’s startup ...
Jan 9, 2018	Cleveland founder shares what his startup community gets right and wrong	I’ve had a front-row seat to Cleveland’s startup community for the past 12.5 years — as an early employee, founder, executive, educator, and member of various startup-oriented organizations. Things sure have changed since 2005, when there w...
Jan 9, 2018	Chris Weidner: Local climber Quinn Brett paralyzed after 100-foot fall in October	Handstands for Quinn fundraiser What: A fundraising event for Quinn Brett’s medical costs, featuring Tommy Caldwell, the REEL ROCK 12 Film Tour, live music, silent auction, raffle, beer When: 5 p.m. Jan. 13 Where: The Ridgeline Hotel in Est...
Nov 20, 2017	Angry Lawyer Already Engaged In A SLAPP Suit Promises To Sue More Critics, Use His Machine Gun If Sanctioned	Earlier this year, we mentioned the Texas lawyer Jason Lee Van Dyke in relation to a story in which Twitter, ridiculously, banned Ken “Popehat” White after he wrote about threats from Van Dyke. We had written about Van Dyke years earlier wh...
Nov 16, 2017	US sanctions snag donations to Iran earthquake victims	When Tohid Najafi first learned that a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake had struck his native country, Iran, he wasted no time. A medical professional based in Detroit, US, Najafi quickly set up a Facebook page to raise money for the fa...
Oct 10, 2017	Solar rushes in to re-light hope in Puerto Rico	Never let it be said that the U.S. solar industry doesn’t rally around its citizens when they find themselves in crisis. With the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reporting as of Friday that 95% of the U.S. territory’s residents a...
Sep 4, 2017	In the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Businesses and Individuals Donate Millions to Help with Relief Efforts
Aug 31, 2017	What Beyoncé, Drake, and Others Are Doing to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims	In the wake of devastating, fatal floods in southeast Texas as a result of Hurricane Harvey, musicians who hail from Houston and the surrounding areas are giving back to their hometown. Chiefly, proud Houstonian Beyoncé announced that she i...
Aug 31, 2017	SimpliPhi, Ameresco Solar and Haleakala Solar Bring Solar + Storage Air Conditioning Systems to Classrooms in Hawaii	Students at Hawaii’s Waialua High and Intermediate on the island of O’ahu are returning to school this year to solar PV and energy storage-powered air conditioned classrooms from project partners SimpliPhi Power, Ameresco Solar and Haleakal...
Oct 25, 2016	Eero looks to help employee whose 10-year-old son was burned by peers	Eero, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based maker of a smart wireless routing system, is asking employees to help one of their colleagues after his special-needs son was burned in a fire set by some of his same-age peers. According to a repor...
Sep 25, 2016	Recovery slow for Maui flood victims	ANNA KIM / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Lt. Gov. Shan Tsutsui, in middle of photo at left, talked with Stephen Higa last week when government officials went to Maui to assess the situation. ANNA KIM / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER The Hi...
Jul 20, 2016	Man shoots, kills ex-wife, self in front of daughter on Kauai	Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! COURTESY PHOTO Celestae Gibbons She graduated from the Oklahoma Dental Assisting program and was an office coordinator at Lihue Dental A 45-year-old Kauai man fatally sh...
Oct 28, 2015	Women’s Freedom Conference Amplifies The Voices Of Women Of Color	The Women’s Freedom Conference made history this past Sunday as the first all-digital, highly accessible conference organized by all women of color. The creator of the conference, Feminista Jones, an activist and writer, stated in her welco...
Dec 3, 2014	Codefunding: A Young Woman Looks To Break Into Programming	Liz Acosta seeks funds for her Hackbright course. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine named Liz Acosta asked me for advice. “The deadline for Hackbright is coming up,” she told me. “Should I apply? Acosta, who worked in the same office as Rea...
Aug 8, 2014	TurboRoo, The Chihuahua With No Front Legs, Can Walk Again Thanks To 3D Printing	Is there any cute animal 3D printing can’t save? Just look at TurboRoo, a tiny Chihuahua born without front legs, who has been given a new “leash” on life thanks to a Makerbot and a 3D designer from 3dyn. Mark Deadrick, president of 3dyn, s...
Jun 13, 2014	This Entrepreneur Built An Asthma Monitor To Save Lives—Just Not His Own	Like many entrepreneurs, Chris Stiffler had an idea for a world-changing product rooted in his own experience. In his case, the experience was a serious asthma attack. The product was Wheezy, a wearable device designed to help asthmatics mo...
May 6, 2014	YouCaring Announces Its Users Have Raised Over $100M in Crowdfunding Campaigns	Sharing some exciting news about its progress, Tampa-based crowdfunding platform YouCaring has announced its users have raised more than $100M in campaigns. Founded in 2011, the site is considered as the second-most popular site for philant...
Feb 8, 2014	Incubator grad takes on another side of crowdfunding in healthcare: Medical bills	Its website describes it also as a white-label solution where charities can create profiles for the individuals they sponsor, as well as where hospitals and clinics can help recoup the cost of emergency care provided to underinsured individ...
Oct 12, 2013	Controversial Story Of Racism Nets Red Lobster Server $10K From YouCaring	A server at Red Lobster in Franklin, Tennessee was allegedly the victim of racism thanks to a nasty slur left in lieu of a real tip. Supporters of Toni Christina Jenkins took to crowdfunding platform YouCaring to donate over $10,000 to the ...
Jul 2, 2013	Website campaigns help raise funds to pay medical bills	The contributions, which can be given by name or anonymously, typically range from the very small (as little as $5) to the extremely generous ($1,000 and up). In the Kennetts’ case, donations ranged from $10 to $2,000. Most sites are for-pr...
Jan 11, 2013	PayPal Apologizes For Freezing Science Fiction Writer Jay Lake’s Cancer Fundraiser, Promises Greater Transparency	Earlier this afternoon, I started seeing a bunch of tweets from science fiction writers and fans about what looked a big screw up at PayPal. Author Jay Lake has been fighting cancer since 2008, and to raise money for a new treatment (whole ...
	Incubator grad takes on another side of crowdfunding in healthcare: Medical bills	Among the first set of graduates from a new San Jose incubator is a tech company using the power of the crowd to help people pay their medical bills. HealthDonor is similar to Kickstarter or Indiegogo in that users create profiles, set fund...
	Kuliouou man battles rare type of cancer	CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected] Marcus Reimel’s family will hold a fundraiser called “Cancervive” to help raise money for his travel and medical costs. CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected] Marcus Reimel and his wife, No...
	Website campaigns help raise funds to pay medical bills	Even with Stage IV lung cancer, there are moments when 32-year-old Chip Kennett feels blessed. Over the course of two weeks in April, those moments were many, as 325 friends and family members contributed $56,800 over the Internet to help d...
	Mother and daughter die within minutes of each other in separate crashes	In a bizarre coincidence, a mother and her young daughter were killed within a half-hour of each other in separate crashes on the same road in Alabama. Julia Patterson, 39, and her 8-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, died Tuesday morning on Ala...

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FAQ about YouCaring

When was YouCaring founded?

YouCaring was founded in 2011.

What has the press written about YouCaring?

Parsers VC has collected 34 articles mentioning YouCaring, among them “GoFundMe drives seek to help out Kauai flood victims” (May 6, 2018) and “Ige dedicates day to imperiled ohia” (Apr 25, 2018).

Is YouCaring still active?

Yes, YouCaring is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 11, 2019.