GoFundMe

A 7-year-old girl fighting a brain tumor asked for tons of dog photos, and the internet delivered

March 27th, 2019

Mike Wehner

Fighting a brain tumor isn’t easy, and beating it requires a vast support network of doctors, specialists, and of course friends and family. A 7-year-old Wisconsin girl named Emma has all of that, but when she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) she wanted one more thing: pictures …

Politics

Unpaid federal workers have set up almost 1,000 GoFundMe pages due to the shutdown

January 11th, 2019

Andy Meek

The ongoing federal government shutdown, which entered its 21st day on Friday, and is now tied for the longest ever, is very much a political story. But there’s a personal component as well — one that it’s easy to miss. The Twitter hashtag #ShutdownStories, for example, offers a heartbreaking look at one personal account after …