{"id":4671,"date":"2025-12-12T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/more-people-are-using-gofundme-for-help-with-basic-necessities-annual-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:48:52","slug":"more-people-are-using-gofundme-for-help-with-basic-necessities-annual-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/more-people-are-using-gofundme-for-help-with-basic-necessities-annual-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"More people are using GoFundMe for help with basic necessities, annual report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-85c997\" class=\"body-graf\">The fundraising website GoFundMe saw a sharp uptick this year in the number of people using the platform for help covering the cost of housing, food and other day-to-day necessities, according to the company\u2019s annual analysis of campaigns.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-9805fb\" class=\"body-graf\">GoFundMe&#8217;s self-published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/c\/newsroom\/2025-year-in-help-report\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cYear in Help\u201d report<\/a> found that the number of campaigns launched to assist people with rent, utilities and groceries climbed 20% over the previous year. The platform\u2019s fastest-growing category was \u201cCharity,\u201d followed by \u201cMonthly Bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboolaReadMoreBelow\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"anchor-f84607\" class=\"body-graf\">GoFundMe\u2019s analysis underlines growing worries across the U.S. about affordability. In recent months, some economists and lawmakers have sounded alarms about softer wage growth for lower-income workers, declining consumer confidence and tepid hiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundraising website GoFundMe saw a sharp uptick this year in the number of people using the platform for help covering the cost of housing, food and other day-to-day necessities, according to the company\u2019s annual analysis of campaigns. GoFundMe&#8217;s self-published \u201cYear in Help\u201d report found that the number of campaigns launched to assist people with <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}