GoFundMe

English

Etymology

From go +‎ fund +‎ me.

Proper noun

GoFundMe

1. A crowdfunding website that allows people to raise money.
   • 2019 October 17, Amy Qin, “China Detains 2 Americans Amid Growing Scrutiny of Foreigners”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-17, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     The two Americans, Jacob Harlan and Alyssa Petersen, were detained late last month and are being held in Zhenjiang, a town in Jiangsu Province, according to GoFundMe pages set up by friends and relatives.

Noun

GoFundMe (plural GoFundMes)

1. (Internet) A fundraiser on this website.
   • 2022 January 27, Sam Franzini, “$580k Not Enough: Generous Students Start GoFundMe for Needy Yang”, in Daily Nexus‎^[3]:

     A group of students known as the Yang Welfare Collective (YWC) have banded together to start a GoFundMe for the impoverished chancellor, and donations are already flowing in.

   • 2024, Cher Tan, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging‎^[4], Sydney, N.S.W.: NewSouth Publishing, →ISBN:

     More recently, the platform [Spotify] has announced plans to introduce a ‘Merch Hub’ – listeners will be able buy^[sic] merch from their favourite musicians within the app, while musicians themselves can directly link to their CashApps or GoFundMes.