What to do when every crisis needs your $20

It’s more immediately gratifying to donate to a viral heartwarming story — like an apple orchard rebuilding from a fire — with a relatively fixable aim, than it is to give to a more complicated goalpost, such as a nonprofit trying to end malaria. The key here is not in forbidding any kind of giving, but catching yourself when the algorithm’s about to batter you into apathy or direct you to a GoFundMe that’s already raised more than the organizers know what to do with. But it’s been harder to raise funds, says Jimenez, for the hundreds of thousands of undocumented families now enduring a “similar tragedy” involving the “loss of an identity, the loss of your belongings” as a result of Trump’s immigration raids.

Author: Sara Herschander

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