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- GoFundMe has frozen $350,000 in donations to a group called Black Lives Matter Foundation after BuzzFeed News informed them the group is unaffiliated with the BLM movement.
- The foundation's founder told BuzzFeed News it has a different mission than the anti-white supremacy movement: "unity with the police department."
- Employees from companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox, also raised over $4 million for the group through charity platform Benevity, which told Business Insider the funds have not been distributed to the group.
- GoFundMe and Benevity told Business Insider they're now working with donors and campaign organizers to get the funds to the right places.
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Donors looking to support the global Black Lives Matter movement raised an estimated $4.35 million in June for an organization called Black Lives Matter Foundation, but most of those funds are now in limbo after BuzzFeed News discovered that the foundation is completely unaffiliated with the movement.
The BLM Foundation, is based in Santa Clarita, California and was founded in 2015, BuzzFeed News reported. Robert Ray Barnes, the founder and sole paid employee of the foundation, told the outlet that the two groups have nothing to do with one another and have vastly different missions.
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