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All—      Please take a moment to consider donating to the Grays Ferry Boxing Club for some much needed repairs. The Boxing Club is a 501-C-3 “Not for Profit” which offers membership for $20 a month and relies upon volunteer trainers in order to serve the neighborhood of Grays Ferry. Grays Ferry...

My name is Alison, that’s me in the picture with my daughter Lauren who was murdered in October 2013. As a mum I never thought I would ever be writing a post like this. We see those awful stories’ in the news and they touch us deeply. We always think, poor family, no idea how I would cope if that...

Hi. My name is Leslie Smith. This fund is for my father Kenneth Smith. He is 80 years old and has always been a hard working man all of his life.  His wife (my step-mom) has been battling cancer for a few years.  He was selling kindling fire wood to make ends meet. On a fixed income of social sec...

My street ministry "Street Reach for the Homeless" began during the later half of the winter of 2011 when I saw a group of people, men and women, living on the streets of Fort Wayne, Indiana, who fell between the cracks and stepped forward as non profits in this community turned their backs. To...

It is with heavy hearts that our family must announce the passing of our mother, daughter, sister, niece, cousin, granddaughter and friend, Candice Bowers, as a result of the Route 91 Country Music Festival shooting in Las Vegas on the night of October 1st 2017. Candice left this world doing what...

Greg Gilbert is known to many as the singer and guitarist of the band Delays and as an artist. To me, he is my fiancée, my joint adventurer through life but most importantly, the daddy to our two baby girls Dali (3) and Bay (1). He has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer that has sp...

On the night of December 30th, after attending a charity fundraiser in honor of Carrie Fisher, Bobby Shively's car was broken into and his Darth Vader costume, Kathleen Campbell's Legacy Stormtrooper costume, and multiple replica prop blasters, used for 501st Legion charity work, were stolen. Th...

Dwayne McDuffie (1962-2011) was keenly aware at a very young age that heroic protagonists who looked even remotely like him were no where to be found in the comic books he loved to read. Ethnically diverse characters were not only woefully underrepresented, but grossly inauthentic. Profoundly ins...

I am 56, disabled, and a veteran of the United States Air Force; I spent the last 10 years of my wife's life, the last 10 years of our 12 year marriage, taking care of her as she slowly died over the span of that decade. Our lives became a tight orbit around each other as things got worse. My wi...

On September 30,2016 Courtney was burned in a horrific camp fire accident involving gasoline.  Courtney spent 51 days in ICU Burn Unit and has undergone Many surgeries and skin grafts. The doctor estimates around 12 more surgeries in the next 2 years.  Two weeks after her release from the hospita...

UPDATE: Mon Nov 13, 2017 PLEASE visit our new page  https://www.gofundme.com/operation-puerto-rico-giftlift As we move into the next phase of our operation. THANK YOU SO MUCH for your donations and support. The people of Puerto Rico thank you as well! ___________________________________ HELP RE...