YouCaring
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| Web address | www.youcaring.com |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Crowd funding |
| Available language(s) | English |
Youcaring is a US website for crowd funding medical expenses, adoptionand tuition. About 35% of the project posters are 50 years old or older. Youcaring is supported by donations and thus does not charge a processing fee, but their payment processor, PayPal charges 3%.[1][2][3]
Notable campaigns
- Musical group Doomtree created a Youcaring campaign for rapper P.O.S to help cover the secondary costs associated with a kidney transplant.[4]
- Science fiction author Jay Lake used the website to pay for whole genome sequencing, towards the "small possibility that the results of such a test...may suggest a treatment path"[5] for his colon cancer, which since 2008 has "progressed from a single tumor to metastatic disease affecting the lung and liver, recurring after multiple surgeries and chemotherapy courses."[5] After his successful campaign, Lake publicly criticized Paypal for the terms and processes the company uses when it thinks there's a fraud risk.[6] His experience was cited in news coverage over Paypal's public promise to introduce "aggressive changes" to its frozen funds policy.[6]
See also
- Comparison of crowd funding services
- Fundly
- GiveForward
- GoFundMe
- Indiegogo
References
- ↑ Kayleigh Kulp, “Need Cash for Health Care? Ask!: How crowdfunding websites can help you pay for expenses”, AARP, June 2012.
- ↑ Kayleigh Kulp, “How to Use Crowdfunding to Cover Health-Care Bills”, Fox Business, 27 April, 2012.
- ↑ Eliza Barclay, “The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills”, NPR, 24 October, 2012.
- ↑ Lily Rothman, “Musician Health Care Crisis: Rapper P.O.S. Crowdfunds New Kidney”, Time, 1 November 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Sequence a Science Fiction Writer". YouCaring. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Pepitone, Julianne (January 21, 2013). "PayPal: 'Aggressive changes' coming to frozen funds policy". CNNMoney.com. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
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