GiveForward Success!! Amy Cowin Raises $32,000 on GiveForward for Her Sister’s Kidney Transplant

When doctors told Jessica Cowin she needed to raise $100,000 for a life saving kidney transplant, her younger sister, Amy used GiveForward to raise the money.  Amy started a fundraising page on GiveForward, sent it out to friends and family through email and Facebook and asked them to send it along to their contacts as well.  Within a week Amy had raised an amazing $21,000 with hundreds of donations from people all around the country ranging from $5 to as large as $5000.

During her fundraiser, Amy would give updates on her fundraising page about Jessica’s health and email friends and family encouraging them to continue donating. GiveForward worked for Amy because the platform was both easy to set up and easy for friends and family to donate safely and securely.

Ultimately, Amy’s amazing efforts helped raise over $32,000 on GiveForward in addition to tens of thousands of dollars donated offline.  Her efforts were covered by the Chicago Sun Times, CBS radio, and the Chicago Tribune, which went so far as to call GiveForward the “future of medical fundraising in the Internet Age.”

Even though, Amy didn’t raise the $100,000 needed for the surgery, the hospital decided to grant them the surgery anyway.  Fortunately, both Amy and Jessica have fully recovered, and we are lucky to have both of them serve as members of GiveForward’s Associate Board.