The Help Of GoFundMe & Crowd-Funding
Websites such as GoFundMe that seek other people’s kindness using crowd-funding have popularized in the recent years. In 2015, a study by the personal finance website NerdWallet found that $930 million of the $2 billion that has passed through GoFundMe since the beginning have been directly related to American health issues
Lucky Enough Contestant
But worryingly, the NerdWallet report discovered that only one in ten of these campaigns managed to hit their financial targets. The Family Feud contestant was indeed lucky to receive such a huge amount to help himself in getting medical treatment. Hopefully one day, multi-millionaires get to show off their generosity through kindness rather than necessity.