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Launched in 2010, GoFundMe is the world’s largest social fundraising platform and considered a leader in online fundraising. So, it’s no surprise that when two individuals were seeking to help a local homeless girl, they created a GoFundMe page.

Mary Ellen Earnhardt, a Career Lab Supervisor with the Department of Labor, and Matthew Hodgson, a Harlem High School English Educator, are the organizers of this fundraiser.

According to information provided on her the GoFundMe page, Kiahna Cochran is a young Native American woman from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation who is “facing some of the mos...