Connecting Family and Friends When Health Matters Most

About CaringBridge

CaringBridge® is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit web service that connects family and friends during a critical illness, treatment or recovery.

A CaringBridge website is personal, private and available 24/7. It helps ease the burden of keeping family and friends informed. Patients and caregivers draw strength from loved ones’ messages of support.

Connected by CaringBridge


  • More than 30 million people have visited CaringBridge.org in the last 12 months — 57 people per minute.
  • More than 155,000 personal sites have been created — currently at a rate of one every eight minutes.
  • More than 1 billion visits have been made to personal CaringBridge websites.
  • The CaringBridge community includes authors, visitors and/or donors in all 50 states and more than 215 countries/territories around the world.
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