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GoFundMe page for Orlando victims is most successful ever!
GoFundMe page for Orlando victims is the most successful EVER on the site, raising more than $2.2 MILLION in one day
- A GoFundMe page by Equality Florida raised over $2.2 million on Monday
- Campaign is the most successful and fastest-growing ever on the site
- The civil rights group said it will work with experts to allocate funds fairly
- Another fundraiser by Orlando gay rights group brought almost $250,000
Money keeps streaming into the fundraising page set up by Equality Florida, a gay civil rights organization
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A GoFundMe page set up for victims of the terrorist massacre in Orlando is the site's most successful fundraiser ever, with over $2 million raised in one day.
The GoFundMe page set up by Equality Florida reached over $2.2 million before 5pm Monday. It was set up by the civil rights organization on Sunday.
The largest individual contribution of $100,000 was donated by the GoFundMe team.
'Our thoughts are with the victims and all those affected by this terrible attack,' the company wrote in a blog post.
The Orlando campaign is also the site's fastest-growing fundraiser to date, a company spokesperson told Daily Mail Online.
Fellow gay rights organization Executive Pride gave $30,000. Some 50,000 individual donations had been collected on Monday afternoon.
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A fundraiser for Orlando victims has raised over $2.2 million as of Monday. Pictured, Brett Morian, from Daytona Beach, hugs an attendee during the candlelight vigil at Ember in Orlando on Sunday
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The previous record holder, a campaign to raise funds for medical bills for terminally ill Eliza O'Neill, 4, has amassed $2,026,710 in 32 months.
Equality Florida said it's working with local organizations and a team of attorneys and experts to allocate the funds fairly.
The organization is receiving help from the National Center for Victims of Crime, which has assisted in distributing funds raised for victims of other mass shootings.
'We are heartbroken and angry that senseless violence has once again destroyed lives in our state and in our country,' Equality Florida development officer Ida Eskamani wrote on the fundraising page.
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People hold candles during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of Sunday's Orlando shooting in Seoul, South Korea
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz4BUuKj0nV
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