Wireless Week spoke with mGive Executive Director Jenifer Synder about the foundation’s role in mobile philanthropy, its new initiatives and whether it plans to support campaign contributions for the upcoming election season.
Silver Ring Thing, a Christian group that promotes abstinence among teenagers, is seeing success with mobile technology—but not for fund raising. The organization is using the medium almost exclusively for reaching out to young people.
During the...
As we've been reminded recently, mobile donations and text-to-give campaigns are quick and easy ways to ask people to give. This is especially true when natural disasters strike, and people are eager to help immediately. One of the drawbacks with...
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Judy Chang is the Senior Manager of Vertical Markets at PayPal, which means the nonprofit world falls under her purview.
WhatGives!? interviewed Judy recently at BlogWorld Expo 2010 after her...
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Mobile giving is spreading like wildfire across the nonprofit sector. Since January, text messaging campaigns for relief efforts for Haiti have raked in $43 million, according to the Mobile Giving...
We’ve all seen the advertisements: “Text WATER to 38279”, “Text FOOD to 18732”. You pull out your phone, you send a text, and VOILA! you’ve made a $5-10 donation.
Its simple, quick and easy, and it requires next to no effort. Heck, you don’t even...
There's no doubt that mobile technology can be a powerful tool for social good. You can find great examples of initiatives going on worldwide at MobileActive.org. In Megan's post on mobile giving and the Superbowl, she referenced the...
If you watched the Superbowl on Sunday, chances are you probably caught most of the commercials as well. I'm sure you have some thoughts about which you liked and didn’t like and whether you liked it or not, you probably won’t be forgetting the...
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this social media talk? It’s okay, everyone has to start somewhere. We've tried to break it down for you in 10 easy steps that will have you feeling like a social media pro in no time. Once you’ve got these down, we...
