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Free Jewish Crowdfunding Website Reaches $3 Million Dollar Raised Milestone


tcfA milestone has been reached in Chesed and Tzedakah that Klal Yisroel should be proud of and celebrate.

In just over a year since it’s launching, the totally free crowdfunding website “The Chesed Fund” has raised a whopping 3 MILLION DOLLARS for Tzedakah causes!

Avi Kehat, the man who started this incredible website told YWN he was overwhelmed with emotion, and never expected the website to have helped so many people, and have the Zechus to have so many people give Tzedakah using his website.

“More than THREE MILLION DOLLARS was raised for Tzedakah, and not one DOLLAR in commission was taken”, Kehat said with excitement.

The Chesed Fund has revolutionized the crowdfunding world by offering a completely free platform for those in need to raise money. TheChesedFund.com is a free alternative to the high commission demands of GoFundMe.

Previously, GoFundMe had been a great resource to instantly raise funds for causes that required emergency funds.

However that came at a high price as GoFundMe collected 5% of donations aside from the high processing rates that users were required to pay.

A group of developers under the direction of Avi Kehat put in thousands of hours for the sake of chesed and to offer the Jewish world an alternative to the heavy taxing of donations executed by global crowd funding sites.

Since its launch, The Chesed Fund has undergone a total revamping of the website – both in programming, as well as in design. This was done to accommodate the influx of heavy usage that was never anticipated.

“The ones who desperately needed funds were getting taxed from these crowd funding sites and I have felt they were literally taking bread from mouths of widows, orphans and others in need”.

“The only fee involved is the credit card processing fees, we just couldn’t find a way around that” says Kehat .

The credit card processing is handled by ‘Stripe’ which is a 3rd party credit card processor.

“The site does not profit from those fees and we have chosen ‘WePay’ simply because they offer very flexible development tools” Kehat told YWN.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)



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