Former Senior Advisor to President Obama Joins GoFundMeLongtime White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer will serve as the popular crowdfunding platform's VP of communications and policy.
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Former White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer announced today that he has joinedGoFundMeas its new vice president of communications and policy.
The move, which the 39-year-old Delaware nativeannouncedearlier today on his Twitter feed, underscores the growing allure, power and popularity of crowdfunding, now even amongst the country's elite opinion spinners.
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A personal announcement: I have joined GoFundMe as VP of Communications and Policy. Here's why:https://t.co/wrLZtTL3s5
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer)December 10, 2015
Pfeiffer, best known as one of President Obama's most-trusted and longest-tenured advisors, departed the White House back in March. He laterjoined CNNas a political commentator. In his new post at GoFundMe, a fast-expanding personal cause-based crowdfunding platform founded in 2008, he will focus on drumming up publicity for the startup's heartstring-tuggingsuccess stories, something the San Diego-based company doesn't seem too shabby at doing already.
Successful GoFundMe campaignsmake headlines often, highlighting emotional tales of hundreds of thousands of dollars -- and sometimes even millions -- raised, for example, to help pay for sick children's medical expenses or to support ailing military veterans, includingone of the last remaining survivorsof the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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We'd say Pfeiffer has his work cut out for him, but there's certainly no shortage of feel-good stories to be harvested from GoFundMe's vast database. The Georgetown University alum says he looks forward to telling them in this next phase of his budding private-sector career.
"When I left the White House, I didn't know what my next chapter was," Pfeiffer toldRe/Code今天。“我是希望能找到一些公司nsistent with my experience working for Barack Obama for so long … That came down to the idea that our campaign was about empowering people to help their country."
.@SBMayorDavisis raising funds for the victims of Tuesday's shooting in San Bernardino:https://t.co/805TBTAyDJpic.twitter.com/My3wO4xqye
— GoFundMe (@gofundme)December 5, 2015
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