How to raise money on patient websites like CaringBridge, CarePages, MyLifeline.org, and Lotsa Helping Hands

In the world of online tools for people battling illness, nothing quite compares to those sites that help build a community around someone who is sick.  The two most popular patient websites are CaringBridge and CarePages, both of which provide free patient blog sites so friends and family can keep up on the progress of a loved one.

Two possibly lesser known sites take this sense of community to a new level, offering patients and their caregivers a way to connect and collaborate.

Lotsa Helping Hands, offers free online collaboration tools to help people to come together in caregiving.  A calendar, message board, blog, and event invitations make it easy for friends and family to volunteer to cook dinner, drive to doctor’s appointments, or schedule visits.

MyLifeline.org provides cancer patients with free blog sites to update friends and family.  They provide cancer resources and help build an online community for patients and their caregivers.

Much like these sites, GiveForward aims to bring people together to help a loved one battling an illness.  That’s why we make it easy for people to leave words of encouragement, email organizers, update stories, and list upcoming events.  But the real purpose of GiveForward is to help bring together friends, family, and strangers to contribute directly to the recovery of someone they care about.

Because of this, GiveForward is a natural complement to patient web sites like CaringBridge, CarePages, MyLifeline.org, and Lotsa Helping Hands.

To raise money on any of these sites using GiveForward.org, all you have to do is create a GiveForward page and paste the customized url for your project into the descriptions or links on any of these sites.  Then, friends and family who read about a patient’s updates can visit the GiveForward page to make a donation.

Soon GiveForward will make it that much easier to fundraise on sites like these.  Our widget (to be released in early April) will allow you to fundraise using the GiveForward platform all the while staying on your current website or blog.

Stay tuned for updates, but in the meantime if you have any questions about how to fundraise on a CaringBridge, CarePage, MyLifeline.org, or Lotsa Hands Page, shoot us an email at info@giveforward.org.