GoFundMe an Education

There's Mom and Dad and the grandparents, there are college savings plans, and now there's GoFundMe. In looking for other ways to foot the college tuition bill, more than 130,000 students turned to the social fundraising platform GoFundMe in the last three years, raising $60 million for tuition and related expenses from more than 850,000 donations. GoFundMe released this and other data in a guidebook designed to help students and families launch their own social fundraising campaigns. The average college graduate in 2016 faced $37,172 in student loan debt, the company reports. Since its launch in 2010, GoFundMe has raised greater than $3 billion from more than 25 million donors.

GoFundMe (02/15/17)