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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
James Pollard and Linley Sanders

How many Americans donate to crowdfunding campaigns, according to a new AP-NORC poll

AP Poll Crowdfunding - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Quintin Sharpe considers it a duty to support those without means. Whether collecting food pantry goods through local service groups or helping out his parents' nonprofit music school, he regularly gives back to his small-town waterside community in southeast Wisconsin.

But the 27-year-old wealth manager encountered a situation last year that prompted another form of charity. A former classmate's father got “blindsided” in a motor vehicle accident, he said, and crowdfunding proved to be the “easiest way to help” with hospital bills. He donated more than $100 to the family's GoFundMe campaign.

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