# Record sum raised on GoFundMe for Orlando shooting victims

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/17/record-sum-raised-gofundme-orlando-shooting-victims/
- Published: 2016-06-17T09:24:17+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**An appeal set up on crowdfunding site GoFundMe to help the victims of the mass
shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, USA, has raised over $4m in two days.
This is the largest amount raised for a campaign on the site to date.**

 

The [Equality Florida’s Pulse Victim Fund](https://www.gofundme.com/PulseVictimsFund)
was set up after 49 people were murdered on 11 June in a gay nightclub in the deadliest
mass shooting by a single gunman in US history. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Orlando_nightclub_shooting),
it was also “the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in US history,
and also the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks
in 2001”.

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Equality Florida is the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil
rights organisation.

 

GoFundMe contributed $100,000 towards this campaign, effectively waiving their transaction
fees.

 

The campaign’s original target was $100,000, which has since been raised to $5m,
and now $7m.

 

It raised **$2.9m in just one day**, from 67,276 people. By the end of the second
day that had reached **$4,078,020** from 88,505 people. Currently the total stands
at **$5, 092,272** from 105,098 people.

 

![GoFundMe Pulse Shooting campaign after day one](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
cloud/2016/06/gofundme-pulse-shooting-day-one-201606.jpg)

_67,276 donors responded to the appeal within 24 hours_

 

 

 

![Day four stats for GoFundMe Pulse shooting fund](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
cloud/2016/06/gofundme-pulse-shooting-day-four-201606.jpg)

_By day four over $5m had been donated._

 

More has been raised for the victims and their families on GoFundMe and other sites,
including:

 

 * $57,368 for the family of [Brenda Marquez McCool](https://www.gofundme.com/pulsemom),
   mother of 11 children
 * $27,865 for [Leonel Melendez](https://www.gofundme.com/297maz8s), who survived
   but is in a coma
 * $32,577 for the family of [Enrique Rios](https://www.gofundme.com/294mtrw)

 

Since the California-based site was launched in May 2010, over $2 billion has been
raised on GoFundMe to benefit individuals. It deducts 5% of the value of donations
as a fee.

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