GoFundMe, the personal cause crowdfunding company featured on Forbes’ 2016 list of next billion-dollar startups, has acquired competing cause fundraising site CrowdRise. When we wrote about Redwood ...

Until very recently, aspiring altruists using the Edward Norton-backed crowdfunding-for-good platform Crowdrise could only raise money for official 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Because of Crowdrise’s ...

The goal of CrowdRise’s Giving Tower Holiday Challenge was to give charities a compelling and amazing draw to get supporters fired up about giving back—and it worked. Charities leveraged their ...

Crowdrise and Firefox team up with celebrities to raise money for their favorite charities. Find out how you can get in on the action. ‘Tis the time of year to do good — and celebrities are taking ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrowdRise by GoFundMe, the world’s largest and most trusted social fundraising platform dedicated to charitable fundraising, releases mobile-first registration ...

Just a few days before the second annual Women’s March on Washington and Women’s Marches took place around the globe, GoFundMe and CrowdRise announced that more than $400,000 was raised on their ...

How do charities and non-profits raise enough money for their causes? Well, the normal route, that which needs to be “disrupted” if you will, means a lot of thousand dollar per-plate dinners, a lot of ...

LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of New York Road Runners.

This is the latest profile in Catchafire‘s Generosity Series, a multi-month celebration and investigation of bold generosity with the goal of understanding its causes, its benefits, and how to inspire ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For actor Edward Norton, the late movie star Paul Newman is a role model, though not only for his work in films. "There is someone who took the silliness of being famous and ...