A GoFundMe started to help an older adult from Manchester, Tennessee, return to retirement after he was seen delivering a Starbucks DoorDash order has raised over $900,000.
When Brittany Smith saw a white-haired man wearing a plaid pressed shirt tucked into khaki pants delivering her order to her front porch through her doorbell camera, she thought the task looked like a challenge for him, Smith wrote in the description of the GoFundMe campaign.
The man’s name is Richard Pulley, and Smith found him through social media and reached out. She learned that Pulley, 78, delivers for DoorDash because after his wife of 56 years lost her job, the couple struggled to make ends meet.
With the goal of helping Pulley get back to enjoying his retirement, Smith launched a GoFundMe on March 11. Ten days later, on Saturday, Pulley was handed a jumbo check for $965,868.