Mind your toes.
Posted on 06/26/2016 9:31:05 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
GoFundMe campaign intended to raise $250 for a lawnmower for Memphis teen, instead raises nearly $200G
A GoFundMe page set up so that a Memphis teen could kickstart a lawn mowing business has exploded, raising nearly $200,000 for his impoverished family.
The “Chauncy’s Chance” crowdfunding campaign was set up by a benevolent stranger, Matt White, and initially set out to raise $250 for a lawnmower for 16-year-old Chauncy Black.
Now the teen has his sights set on buying a home for his mother and funding his education after donations started pouring in.
Matt White was inspired to help out Black after meeting the teen while he panhandled in a Kroger grocery store parking lot.
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over $245K now
great story, but I sure hope the money is handled well and not squandered
now the guy has ever “chance” to make more of his life and for his family, too, so long as he doesn’t blow it
Gigadollars? Wow!
...great story, but I sure hope the money is handled well and not squandered...
The story said the cash is going into a trust. That means there will be a Trust Administratior who will dole out the cash.
The trust administrator most likely won’t be the kid or his mom or a family member.
This is why I don’t do gofundme’s. It’s all well and good that people feel like giving but what has this kid or his mother done to deserve $250k to just be given to them. What will that teach him? People need to learn to work for what they want.
May seem hardhearted but I think it sends the wrong message to them.
Not to be a wet blanket, but “he panhandled in a Kroger grocery store parking lot” doesn’t sound like a great work ethic to me. Color me curmudgeonly and skeptical today.
Disagree. The kid offered an exchange of services for food. While technically panhandling, its not the same as a guy standing on a corner with a sign with no plans to work for it.
I need a 426 Hemi mower.Who wants to fund me?
In an interview yesterday Matt said he wished there was more attention paid to what the involvment with the young boy did for him instead of what HE did for the child and his family. He gave credit to God for laying the actions on his heart and witnessed to following that stimulant.
You know, this is well and good, but what I think is sad is that you can have a GoFundMe page for buying a kid a lawnmower and it gets almost $250K, but you have a GoFundMe page for a missionary family who have served faithfully on the field in Romania for over 20 years and whose wife now has a severe degenerative disorder which is causing her to actually have to have body parts amputated, and they can’t afford even a fraction of the medical expenses involved, and you can’t even get $2000 raised for them.
That’s probably a little more important than whether some kid gets a lawnmower, or can even buy his mama a house.
Assuming there’s no deception involved (and having no evidence of deception I’m willing to make that assumption) this very probably represents a huge opportunity for his entire family.Hopefully *nobody*...not a relative,friend,neighbor,lawyer,accountant,politician or “community organizer”...attempts to defraud them.
People who contribute to gofundme are stupid.
There is always a projected cost estimate, indicating the item or services needed **would** cost **up to** whatever inflated amount, if only I had the money, poor me.
There is almost never a receipt posted afterward, proving that the item or services needed were actually paid for, using the money raised.
People who donate to help pay veterinary bills are among the most gullible.
They’ve helped buy a lot of new cars for people who end up just euthanizing the animal.
Mind your toes.
That should buy a mower and the ground under it.
We just lost our furbaby Tuesday night to an unexpected illness. Rushed her to the vet hospital, she died, and it cost us $1400. I wouldn’t have taken her if we didn’t have the extra money to spend on her. Betcha if I posted a gofundme to recover the costs we’d get $5. lol
Oh no. Animal lovers contribute big bucks. In your case, you actually did spend the money. You wouldn’t be scamming anyone.
Great story. My kid has had a mowing biz since he was 10. He loves to work. Now, getting him to save his money is another challenge. Doesn’t quite grasp ‘overhead costs’ just yet, either.
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