Convenient but pricey. It is a great tool to raise money. The cost for the service persuaded people to not use the service but to donate to my family personally instead.

Generally a great experience/opportunity for fundraising What I don't like...google my name or any of the team members (including my 14yo) and links come up including pictures that were added in the giveforward listing. I don't like that anyone can find this readily available. I did this to help my best friend's daughter, I did not do this for people in my past to get a look into my life or that of my daughters. I thought the info/pics I provided would be kept within the site, not spread to search engines.

Failed Received only one donation and it was from the great grandmother, no one even bothered with our story.

Poor customer service and trouble shooting. I was disappointed in our results. I began the undertaking with one person from your staff and admitted that I am not tech savvy. She was unwilling/unable to talk to me about how to expand my reach beyond the standard Facebook postings and emails. The next time I called, there was someone else "responsible" for my account. She too was not helpful. When I called a third time and got yet another individual, I gave up and just did my best with what I had. I did not find enough helpful info on the site about expanding our reach either. All n all, great idea. Poor execution.

Better off asking people for money directly. The following is my opinion. Do your own research. If you look through their current listings for donations you can not find your own page. Instead digging through you find dozens upon dozens of garbage listings with random letters and characters. The hand full of people who are featured on the site never seem to change. It's almost like they are either fake or incredibly lucky to have been featured. Who knows why they get the lucky break. Others linger and suffer with no donations even though they have cross posted everywhere. The general public never sees your page. Only those that you give your link. You could just ask people for money directly instead of sharing with this crummy site. The misleading part is that giveforward suggests that you donate to yourself to "encourage" others. Well we did that. We NEEDED money for my wifes chemo. The only people who donated were ourselves and a family member. Good job GF... stealing FEES from a chemo patient.