<div>Hi everyone! Please go below to read updates. THANK YOU!
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<div>Cecily
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<div>Hi. I'm Cecily, and that's Charlie, my husband of nearly 30 years. I do marketing, social media management, and design for small businesses. Charlie is a writer/editor. We have a 19yo kiddo who lives with us.
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<div>We're facing a cascade of urgent problems beyond our control.
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<div>After I lost my full time work in October/November of 2024, it took until July of 2025 to sign on enough new work to just barely cover rent/bills. We also received SNAP benefits and state healthcare. We thought we would be okay. My kid started college full time last month.
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<div>That fragile stability lasted only eighteen days.
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<div>Then everything collapsed at once. A client put my contract on hold for two months. Another cut the contract hours in half. Yet another had to terminate our contract because the client cancelled the project. Then, just three days before we expected to get our SNAP funds to stock up the empty fridge and cupboards, all three of us lost our healthcare and SNAP benefits. We're re-applying and are hopeful it will be re-established, but it's hard to say.
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<div>I really didn't want to start this fundraising effort. We know it's a tough time for many, which makes asking harder.
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<div>Here's where things stand — and why we urgently need help.
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<div>• Despite everything we can, we are behind on our rent, again. It was actually our landlord who encouraged us to launch this GoFundMe — she’s been incredibly patient, but she’s hurting too.
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<div>• We expected our SNAP funds on the 3rd of October, but even if we get approved quickly, we will not be getting it in time to feed us this month.
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<div>• We now need to pay cash for our medications, including my $600/month inhaler and Charlie's heart meds.
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<div>• Our car is out of inspection. Now, even though it’s insured and legally registered, the city has marked it for towing as ‘abandoned’ because we don’t have a private driveway — only street parking. and now the police want to tow it as abandoned. The car isn't worth much, but we can't get afford another car.
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<div>I really don't know what else to do. I hope you can help but I so understand if you cannot. Sending love to you and yours as well.
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Dave Rogers

Anonymous

WILL KELLER

Charles Thomas

Patti Ghezzi

Teresa Giardina

Michelle Combs

Margit Detweiler

Theresa Hines

Tracy Harris

Urgent Help for Cecily and Charlie's Family

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platform

Platform is iOS

Android

Adyen Google Pay Development Audience

$opt_dummy_attribute

English only

Deprecate Stripe Legacy

dyn_template_ids

Adyen V6 Bene Transfer & MyMoney Campaign Organizers - test01

Bene transfer V6 and AdyenV6MyMoney Campaign Organizers - production

OneTrust next-app audience

fundCountryCode

NextDoor Share Option Users

Fundraisers with Reactions feature capability

fundCurrencyCode

US + Non-charity COs Only

locale

fund country is US and user language is English

personId

comms-internal-person-ids

Enhanced Story Experience Users

Suggested Goal Experience Users

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Poster share - new funds eligible (newest 9/18)

Streaming widgets beta user

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3DS payment method

user language is English and fundCountry: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

currencyCode

Money Box Donation List Prompt Experiment Audience

GoFundMe Employees

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Mark Rieth IP Address

Version 9.2.0 and above

Fund is in English speaking country

desktop

Android v12.11.0 and above

Platform is Android

paymentMethodType

checkoutType

Payment method type group to be vaulted on success

admin pr kit prod

EUR Donation Upsell

Share Text generation Skip Fundraiser

(prod) new funds eligible for amp12 (UGC gallery)

fintrac_cad_idv_form_v2 audience

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fallback mode accounts

proCampaignId

p2p legacy startfundraising page

AMP24 New Funds Only PROD (DO NOT MODIFY)

Eligible for Profile Share Badge

countryCode

charityId

UKCharities

Federated Search Internal Testing

route.pathname community

US Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks Feature Audience

International Only

fundId

braze fundraiser group 

Payment Identity Transfers ATO Risk Check (Targeted) - Production

Fundraiser Saved Payment Method Rate Limit Bypass (Production)

leaderboard-partner-id-audience-givepanel

Version 9.2.1 and above

AUD Donation Upsell audience

fundraiserCountryCode is US/EN

Active Fundraiser - Smart Default Cadence

DAF Internal

Vault on success card payment method

Platform is iOS v11.0.0 and above

Desktop users

Person ids

United States (US) users

allow yuno fundraisers for test

Mexico country code

Posters INTL

Support Comments Allowlist

NPO Profile Opted-In

iOS at or above 12.4.0

non-US recurring donors

Canada Campaign Owner Group

Fundraiser Without Meta Link

Scheduler payment tester gorup

charityCommunityId

Charities allow to be claimed unclaimed (PRD)

Canada (CA) users

UC Tipping v20250115 International

pymk_production_xplr_fe_team

Android at or above 12.2.0

Profile photo entry point audience

smart goals (fundraiser/manage) on test01

Activity Tracking v1 Beta Testing

start gfm intl allowed locales

Platform is iOS v11.2.0 and above

NPO upsell education category

unclaimed charities

prod_ach_audience

AI Chatbot Audience

amp13 only new funds (prod) (anyword auto)

UC Flow Enabled (Prod)

Payment Identity Beneficiary Verification - Production

shared notification bell audience

Custom users

ach frontend audience

Android v11.0.0 and above

Users Receiving Payments Paused Notifications

smart goals test01

Manage Coach - US English Organizers Only + new funds only

Team EGG - IP Address list

NPO recommendations prod

Fundraiser Without Instagram Deep Link

Native 11.4.0 and above

UC Tipping v20250107

checkout headers audience

ai_title_page

anyword

openai

control

manual_entry

userEmail

template_id

userId

fundUrl

isCharityCo

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categoryGroup

isCampaignOwner

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Native 11.3.0 and above

Native 11.4.0 and higher

New funds eligible - Video Sharing (PROD)

GB Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks V3 Rollout Audience

Thank you V3 testing whitelist

isRecurringFriendly

Is Recurring Friendly

Excluded funds - Video Sharing

NPO upsell animals category

NPO upsell disaster relief category

Logged In Users

CH Donation Upsell audience

Android v10.6.0 and above

NPO upsell essential needs category

NPO upsell medical category

userCurrencyCode

Localized Currency

NPO upsell cancer category

v11.5.0 and above

testAudience

pathname

Survicate

appVersion is at or above 12.8.0

Non-charity fund

isChallengeFundraiser

challenge-fundraisers

Payment Identity Launch Verification - Production

New funds eligible - Posters v2

CAD Donation Upsell Audience

Braze Email Tester

NPO Profile Opted-Out

iOS App Version

hasKnownDonors

PYMK has donors

iOS v12.3.0 and above

Urgent Help for Cecily and Charlie's Family

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