Gofundme.com pages proliferated almost as soon as cops took Nikolas Cruz into custody after Wednesday’s 17-death massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Donors must parse the funding pages from the fraudulent.
Start with the official gofundme page created by Broward County Public Schools’ official fund-raising cousin, Broward Education Foundation, gofundme.com/StonemanDouglasFund. “Donations raised here will be used to provide relief and financial support to the victims and families of the horrific shooting,” the page declares.
In an e-mail to The Herald, a gofundme.com spokesperson Bobby Whitmore wrote, “if another campaign is created to provide general relief to all of the families, we’ll either direct them to the Broward Education Foundation or transfer their funds raised to the Broward Education Foundation. Either way, the funds are going to the victims and families.”
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