Skip to content

Crowd Funding Insights

Crowd Funding Insights

Category: Losses

Three Rivers Festival board decides event’s fate for 2025
Losses

Three Rivers Festival board decides event’s fate for 2025

AustinFebruary 10, 2025

The Three Rivers Festival won’t return this year, and its board decided today to file for bankruptcy. A crowdfunding campaign launched less than two weeks ago in hopes of raising $450,000 in public …

How GoFundMe Became a $250 Million Lifeline After the L.A. Fires
Losses

How GoFundMe Became a $250 Million Lifeline After the L.A. Fires

AustinFebruary 9, 2025

Donations on the crowdfunding site to people and fire relief efforts have exceeded those for all natural disasters worldwide last year. By Ken Bensinger and Jeremy Singer-Vine Ken Bensinger …

Nonprofits raise more money online with philanthropy-related content, study finds
Losses

Nonprofits raise more money online with philanthropy-related content, study finds

AustinFebruary 5, 2025

A team of researchers from NYU, the University of Miami and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg found that nonprofit organizations raise more money via social media when focusing on philanthropy.

Family mourns the loss of teen who fell through the ice at Glasmann Pond
Losses

Family mourns the loss of teen who fell through the ice at Glasmann Pond

AustinJanuary 30, 2025

A family and the Ogden-area community continue to grieve the loss of 14-year-old Samuel Creel, who died after falling through the ice at Glasmann Pond on Monday afternoon. Creel and a friend were …

FBI: Beware of disaster-related scams
Losses

FBI: Beware of disaster-related scams

AustinJanuary 23, 2025

Last year, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 4,500 complaints reporting roughly $96 million in losses as a result of fraudulent charities, crowdfunding accounts and disaster r …

FBI: Be on the lookout for disaster-related scams
Losses

FBI: Be on the lookout for disaster-related scams

AustinJanuary 23, 2025

Last year, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 4,500 complaints reporting roughly $96 million in losses as a result of fraudulent charities, crowdfunding accounts and disaster r …

ABC-7 at 4: FBI El Paso warns scammers are taking advantage of the Los Angeles-area during historic wildfires
Losses

ABC-7 at 4: FBI El Paso warns scammers are taking advantage of the Los Angeles-area during historic wildfires

AustinJanuary 21, 2025

El Paso, Texas (KVIA-TV)-Scam artists are taking advantage of Los Angeles residents as the historic wildfires continue to wreak havoc on parts of southern California. Special Agent Jeanette Harper …

These Palisades natives raised over $120,000 for fire relief on GoFundMe. Now what?
Losses

These Palisades natives raised over $120,000 for fire relief on GoFundMe. Now what?

AustinJanuary 18, 2025

The crowdfunding effort has been far more successful … including stories about the unprecedented losses, issues firefighters faced and the winds. Jan. 14, 2025 Like other well-intentioned …

Crowdfunding donations could impact wildfire victims’ federal assistance
Losses

Crowdfunding donations could impact wildfire victims’ federal assistance

AustinJanuary 16, 2025

The federal government cannot provide duplicate benefits for the same loss. However, Richard-Thompson emphasized that receiving crowdfunding donations does not automatically disqualify victims …

Freetrade snapped up for £160m by IG but crowdfunding investors complain they are losing out
Losses

Freetrade snapped up for £160m by IG but crowdfunding investors complain they are losing out

AustinJanuary 16, 2025

The London-based FTSE 250 constituent said the purchase, which is set to be completed by mid-2025, will help to boost its UK trading and investing offering.

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
Copyright © 2025 Crowd Funding Insights | Ascendoor News by Ascendoor | Powered by WordPress.