Broncos’ campaign among largest

A GoFundMe campaign created after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash was the second largest on the fundraising platform this year.

The campaign, which raised nearly Cdn$15.2 million, is at the top of GoFundMe’s ‘Year in Giving’ report for 2018.

It’s second only to the fundraising campaign for the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund, which was launched in December 2017 as part of the #metoo movement in the United States.

That fundraiser, which helps defray legal costs for victims of sexual harassment, assault, abuse and retaliation in the workplace, has raised nearly US$22 million to become the largest GoFundMe drive ever.

The money raised in the Humboldt Broncos GoFundMe campaign had to go through a court-supervised process before being distributed.