Successful GoFundMe Charity COVID-19 Relief campaign for Imaging the World!
In response to the dire situation across the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, GoFundMe Charity is doing it’s part to empower nonprofit organizations in need, like Imaging the World, through fundraising. In partnership with Giving Tuesday, GoFundMe Charity launched a #GivingTuesdayNow Match Program in April 2020. They pledged to give a $1,000 matching grant to the first 350 qualifying nonprofits to raise $1,000, with at least 10 donors.
Imaging the World seized this wonderful opportunity and launched a GoFundMe Charity COVID-19 Relief campaign on April 17, 2020. Thanks to the generous and rapid outpouring of support from our dear friends of Imaging the World, we met the target metrics in less than 24 hours of launching the campaign! And we were one of the lucky 350 non-profits among nearly 4,000 participants to qualify for and to receive the $1,000 matching grant! The funds were immediately mobilized to the ITW administration team In Kampala, Uganda and used to procure face shields and washable/reusable face masks with the ITW logo, as well as boxes of disposable gloves. This personal protective equipment has been delivered to the rural clinics in Uganda and Malawi that partner with Imaging the World to protect the front line workers as they provide always needed medical care.
The overwhelming success of this campaign is a huge testament to the valuable work that Imaging the World does, and to the generosity of our supporters during difficult times.
