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People, process and technology: how GoFundMe keeps users safe
A blog by Meghan Luther at GoFundMe for Charity Fraud Awareness week 2018, explaining how the fundraising platform protects donors and beneficiaries against the risk of fraud.
24 October 2018

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  • Home
  • About us
    • Our staff
    • Our board
    • Our committees
    • Corporate publications
    • Our governance
    • Memorandums of Understanding
    • 5 years of effective regulation
  • Our services
    • Complaints and investigations
    • The Fundraising Badge
    • Registration
    • Get involved
    • Proactive regulation
    • Code Advice Service
    • Fundraising Preference Service
  • About fundraising
    • Directory of registered organisations
    • Fundraising topics
    • Resource library
    • Annual Complaints Report
  • Fundraising Code
    • Using the code
    • Standards: All fundraising
      • Behaviour when fundraising
      • Responsibilities of charitable institutions and those who govern them
      • Processing personal data (information)
      • Processing donations
    • Standards: Working with others
      • Volunteers
      • Fundraising involving children
      • Professional fundraisers, commercial participators and partners
    • Standards: Specific fundraising methods
      • Collecting money or other property
      • Fundraising communications and advertisements
      • Digital
      • Events
      • Lotteries, prize competitions and free draws
      • Grant-making bodies (including trusts and foundations)
      • Payroll giving and post-tax salary donations
      • Legacies
    • Index
    • Glossary