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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says the OneOrlando Fund has raised more than $7 million to help victims' families and survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting massacre.Dyer said in a news conference Friday that after listening to the advice and input from others, they'll be giving the money from the OneOrlando fund directly to the survivors and relatives. Previously, they had decided the money would be filtered to them through nonprofit agencies.>>WATCH: Mayor outlines OneOrlando fund distribution plans“It became very clear early on that there were families and individuals and victims that were in need and in need of compensation in very quick fashion -- people who didn’t have groceries, didn’t have rent money – and there was very great need to distribute the money directly to victims and families,” Dyer said.Dyer said in two days, 85 claims for compensation and funeral assistance, including claims from the families of 49 victims, have been filed. He says 94 families and 256 people have visited the city's assistance center since it opened.Dyer said he has reached out to the organizers of Boston’s One Fund, the fund that was set up in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.“We want to do it right. We want you to know exactly what were doing. We want the people who have given the money to be comfortable with what we’re doing with the funds. We want to be as transparent and we want people to understand we want to be fair with the allocations,” Dyer said.Donations to OneOrlando can be made here: https://www.oneorlando.org/Several other funds have been established, including one set up by the owner of Pulse. Others have been set up by gay and Latin advocacy groups.