What to do when every crisis needs your $20

Cori Jackson — a single mom living in Indiana — took in her two young nieces to keep them out of foster care this summer. It hasn’t been easy.

One surprising thing

The sheer scope of just how many fundraisers fail still blows my mind. The top 5 percent of campaigns get about half of all donations — those are the ones that we normally see on our For You page — while the vast majority of fundraisers fail.

The youngest still isn’t potty-trained. The oldest isn’t used to having food in the fridge so, sometimes, she eats so much it makes her sick. The radiator and head gasket of Jackson’s car went out at just the wrong time. And the recliner in her living room, where she has been sleeping so the girls can have her bed, is on “its very last leg.”

Jackson, who is 38 years old, has been doing