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Warren "Butch" Marion and Rory McCarty.

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A Maryland TikToker raised more than $140K for an 82-year-old Walmart worker

Rory McCarty used his TikTok community to raise almost $150,000 for 82-year-old Warren "Butch" Marion. Strangers just a month ago, the two have become close friends.

January 13, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Katelyn McClure, who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran that garnered more than $400,000 in online donations, has been sentenced to three years in prison on state theft charges.

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N.J. woman gets 3 years in bogus good Samaritan online fundraiser

Katelyn McClure helped her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran, garnering more than $400,000 in GoFundMe donations. She is also serving a one-year federal term.

January 07, 2023
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Randy Park launched a page asking for $20,000 to help pay funeral expenses for his mother, who was killed in the Atlanta area spa attacks.

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Donations Pour In For Families Of Atlanta Shooting Victims

Many people are contributing to GoFundMe pages for victims of the deadly Atlanta-area shootings.

March 22, 2021
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<em>Get Well Soon!</em> is an online artwork of more than 200,000 comments from the GoFundMe website. <a href="http://getwellsoon.labr.io/">Visit the Get Well Soon! site.</a>

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Artists Turn GoFundMe Comments Into A 'Get Well Soon!' Card For A Sick System

"We're thinking about it as an archive of well wishes, but an archive that shouldn't exist, that exists because of a terrible structural inequality that we all face," says artist Sam Lavigne.

September 29, 2020
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  • Neda Ulaby
GSU Doctoral student and single mother India Jackson pictured with daughter, Jewel.

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GSU Student, Single Mom Reflects On Life-Changing Experience At NASA Internship

With a hint of fall in the air, India Jackson is still buzzing from a remarkable summer. On Second Thought spoke to the Georgia State University...

September 23, 2019
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  • La'Raven Taylor and
  • Virginia Prescott
India Jackson received $8,510 from a GoFundMe campaign to help her attend a NASA internship in Houston, Texas.

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This Atlanta Single Mom Will Intern For NASA With Help From Strangers

The 2016 film Hidden Figures highlights black female mathematicians who battled racial and gender discrimination to help the National Aeronautics and...

June 12, 2019
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  • La'Raven Taylor and
  • Virginia Prescott

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