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<< Previous | Next >> January 18, 2010The State Dept: More than $20 million raised by SMS to help HaitiThe numbers are changing by the hour. As of Sunday evening EST, the State dept says more than $20 million has been raised by text messaging to come in aid of Haiti. [via Mashable] emily | 10:51 AM | permalink
January 17, 2010Americans Pledge Millions, but Cash Flow Takes WeeksSecretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Friday that the donations to Haiti have surpassed $10 million, and still counting. Erictric reports.
In case you still want to make a donation via SMS, click here for the campaings and their respective numbers. emily | 4:33 PM | permalink
January 13, 2010From the White House: Thoughts, Prayers and SMS donation appeal for earth shaken HaitiPresident Barack Obama made the following statement last night following Haiti's 7.0-magnitude earthquake which left the Haitian capital in a shambles: "My thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been affected by this earthquake. We are closely monitoring the situation and we stand ready to assist the people of Haiti.” The State Department has a post up as well, with remarks from Secretary Clinton and ways to help, including how to make a text donation:
[via twitter.com/jack - Jack Dorsey, CEO Twitter] emily | 8:50 AM | permalink
December 6, 2009Salvation Army Canada lauches Xmas fund raising campaign by SMS
Donors can text the word HOPE to 45678 from any Rogers Wireless or Bell Mobility mobile phone to make a $5.00 contribution to The Salvation Army’s Christmas Campaign. Money raised will directly support the more than 1.5 million people The Salvation Army serves year-round. Last year: - Salvation Army tries text messages to raise funds emily | 7:27 AM | permalink
November 28, 2009Over $315,000 raised for flood victims through SMSVietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication raised over 5.7 billion dong for flood victims in the central region via mobile text messages. Vietnamnet reports.
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October 27, 2009Stadium text-messaging campaign nets $8,550You read about fund raising campaigns by text messaging, but it's not often you that you get actual feedback on what they brought in. ABC's2The Advocate reports that following a plea to Tiger fans - made during a timeout on Saturday - to make a $5 donation by sending a text message, raised $8,550 from more than 2,558 text messages sent (which were added to the sender’s mobile phone bill or deducted from a prepaid balance). emily | 3:38 PM | permalink
September 23, 2009Canadian Wireless Carriers Enable Charitable Donations via SMS
Canadians have a new way to support charities via their mobile phones, thanks to a partnership between the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) and the recently-established Mobile Giving Foundation. Telecommunications Industry News reports.
Related: - UK text donations will be VAT free emily | 7:52 AM | permalink
July 27, 2009UK text donations will be VAT freeGood news. According to Velti, consumers in Britain who choose to donate money to charity via text will no longer be required to pay VAT.
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July 10, 2009NY Philharmonic to Raise Funds Via Text Message
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June 1, 2009Donors send 18 mln euro for Italy quake victims via SMSAround 18 million euros has been collected by mobile phone operators through text messaging to help victims of the deadly earthquake in the central Italian region of Abruzzo. Nearly 300 people were killed in the quake that occurred on 6 April and thousands of others have been left homeless. Adnkronos International reports.
Previously: - Italians Text Help to Earthquake Victims emily | 10:06 AM | permalink
April 9, 2009Italians Text Help to Earthquake Victims
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April 2, 2009Fee Free SMS Boosts Red Nose Day
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March 28, 2009SMS campaign to save Venice
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February 19, 2009Nelson Mandela Foundation received $85,863 from SMS competition
Zain Group, the leading mobile telecommunications operator in the Middle East and Africa, is proud to announce that they have donated $85,863 to the Nelson Mandela Foundation from funds raised in a SMS competition held last year. The competition formed part of a global SMS birthday wishes campaign prior to the ’46664 Concert Honouring Nelson Mandela at 90’ held in June at Hyde Park in London. [ArtZone] Related: - Nelson Mandela Charities Launch International SMS Campaign emily | 6:41 PM | permalink
December 3, 2008American Red Cross "Text 2HELP" campaign raised $190,000
The American Red Crosss, VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media, a division of VeriSign, Inc. and The Wireless Foundation announced today that U.S. wireless subscribers pledged more than $190,000 since September to help the victims of disasters like Hurricane Gustav and Ike through a unique Text 2HELP campaign. emily | 6:48 PM | permalink
November 7, 2008Salvation Army tries text messages to raise funds
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September 2, 2008Republicans, Obama ask supporters to text hurricane reliefRepublican National Convention leaders have asked convention attendees to pledge donations to hurricane relief funds via text to the code 2HELP, using the keyword GIVE. ... Barack Obama's campaign could not leave it up to the Republican camp to harness technology for the betterment of the Gulf Coast. The Democratic presidential candidate contacted his cadre of supporters who receive text messages from the campaign, with a text that read, "Barack asks that you give to the Red Cross: give 5 dollars by texting GIVE to 24357 or give more by calling 1-800-435-7669 or at redcross.org/donate. Please fwd." [via News.com] emily | 5:31 PM | permalink
July 28, 2008Nokia: exclusivity for charity
Adverblog reports on a new sales approach from Nokia that mixes charity and exclusivity. "Face the task allows consumers to put their hands on an exclusive limited edition version of the Nokia N96 one month before the phone hits the market. There are two ways to get it: either by taking part to a quiz and then entering a draw, or directly paying an amount of 759 Euros ($1,200) that will directly go into the dedicated WWF account for the Red Panda conservation." emily | 8:24 AM | permalink
July 12, 2008SMS Scores A Goal4Africa
"Under the slogan "Goal4Africa", a benefit soccer match with the world’s top players will take place on July 12 in Munich’s Allianz Arena in Germany. ... During the game, the charity campaign will be prominently advertised by the broadcast partners. When texting a keyword to a local short code the viewer receives a mobile phone wallpaper. The proceeds go to the Mandela "46664" Foundation, which supports HIV positive and AIDS infected people,. emily | 11:44 AM | permalink
Baseball Team Tests Texting For Charity ProgramWashington Nationals fans soon will be able to text in charity donations during a game, thanks to a partnership between the team, MLB.com, and the Mobile Giving Foundation. During the July 13 game against the Houston Astros, fans will be invited to text the word "NATS" to 90999 to give $5 to support the work of the Children's National Medical Center to fight pediatric diabetes. [via Information Week] emily | 11:21 AM | permalink
July 2, 2008Why SMS is not used more for fundraisingFundraising by text message has long been considered a missed opportunity for charities, because mobile phone usage is so ubiquitous nowadays. Latest figures from the Mobile Data Association shows that Brits send more than one billion texts every week, with volumes growing by 40 per cent year-on-year. Professional Fundraising reports. But there are several problems preventing UK charities from making greater use of SMS to raise money, not least of which is the fact that the mobile phone companies and the Treasury take a large chunk of each donation. VAT and operator commission can amount to 55p ($1) on a £1.50 gift ($3), making the cost of offering this service to donors prohibitively high, especially for small charities. ... Last December, the debate was temporarily revived when Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten lodged an early day motion calling on the Chancellor to abolish VAT on text message donations, but after attracting 57 signatures, this too appears to have stalled." Click here for examples of fundraising by SMS. emily | 3:12 PM | permalink
June 15, 2008Nelson Mandela Charities Launch International SMS Campaign
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, his charitable organisations have come together to launch an international premium SMS service, allowing millions to text their own birthday message to the former South African president. A mixture of shared and dedicated PSMS codes have been set up in over 20 countries around the world including the U.S., U.K., South Africa, Australia, Spain and Germany as well as many African nations making this one of the biggest premium SMS fundraising initiatives to be staged. Well wishers text their own message to their specific short code in country, receive a return thank you message complete with unique PIN allowing them to view their message securely online at www.happybirthdaymandela.com/frontHome.seam. [via Cellular News] On a smaller scale, in 2003, Telekom South Africa offered the world the opportunity to send voice and text messages to celebrate Nelson Mandela's brithday. All proceeds generated from the voice and text messages were to be donated to the Nelson Mandela Foundation for children's rights. emily | 6:13 PM | permalink
December 5, 2007A blind call. Accidental charity
Belgian ad agency Duval Guillaume came up with a clever campaign that turns accidental calls into accidental donations to the Belgian League for the Blind. They're asking people to add 'A Blind Call' to their list of contacts. Every time the number is called, A Blind Call is given a cut of the call's proceeds. Calls are cut off after 30 seconds, and the cost to the dialler is never more than EUR 0.75 ($1.10) [via Springwise] emily | 9:30 AM | permalink
November 2, 2007Indian TV SMS campaign to help deprived children
Indian Amrita TV has launched a public service initiative ‘Send an SMS.Save a Child’ to help the underprivileged children. [via SMSTextNews] "The entire SMS revenue garnered by the viewer’s votes on the reality shows of the channel will be donated for the education, shelter and health care of underprivileged children, stated an official release." emily | 8:50 AM | permalink
October 25, 2007SMS campaign to help out California fire victimsThe Wireless Foundation and the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund have joined forces to help California wildfire victims through a fund raising text message campaign. Subscribers of participating wireless carriers can donate $5 to relief efforts simply by text messaging keyword "GIVE" to "2HELP" (24357). The donations will appear on customers' monthly bills or be debited from prepaid account balances. emily | 9:25 AM | permalink
July 17, 2007SMS for LunchMeir Panim, an organization that runs a network of soup kitchens in Israel, recently ran a promotional campaign called SMS for Lunch. [via World Changing] It's a participatory campaign that allows individuals to experience the good-feeling reward of charitable giving as instant gratification. As described at the social advertising site, Houtlust: The idea was to set up a 'meeting' with one child, and provide an immediate feedback to the action (your donation). A unique platform, integrating web and mobile technologies, enabled such meeting: A boy is seen, facing an empty plate, looking like waiting for something to happen. The copy invites you to donate, through SMS. The moment the system receives your SMS - the banner changes immediately: the plate fills and the boy smiles. Each sms covers the cost of one meal. emily | 10:40 AM | permalink
May 21, 2007SMS campaigns to help fund search for Missing Madeleine
Madeleine McCann is a four-year old British girl who disappeared while on holiday with her parents in southern Portugal and her search has gained world-wide sympathy attention and attention. "Multinational companies, including British Petroleum, Shell, Esso, Texaco and Total have launched a massive poster and text messaging campaign as millions have been poured into a fund to help the search. Telecoms companies including Vodafone, O2 and Spain’s Telefonica are among those backing the phone text campaign. " emily | 12:37 PM | permalink
May 4, 2007Monk to launch SMS fund raising campaignA Bulgarian monk, who used to be a financial stock broker on Wall Street, is planning on launching an SMS fund raising campaig to renovate a Monastery. According to Sofia News Agency, "Father Nikanor from the village of Giginzi is collecting money through text messages to save the monastery of Saints Kozma and Damyan, one of the oldest monasteries in the Pernik region near Sofia, Standart daily Newspaper reported." [via SMSTextNews] emily | 2:56 PM | permalink
May 2, 2007Heroes Have iPhone's (?)
MySuperFly, a Heroes fan thinks that several of the characters (Matt Parkman and Nathan Petrelli) were using iPhones in last night's episode. [via digg] emily | 11:03 AM | permalink
April 16, 2007Send One SMS to save One Life in Darfur
According to Today's Zaman, "a YTL 5 donation (or $3.70 - I initially got the conversion wrong, sorra bout that) - to the Kimse Yok Mu Darfur campaign can be made by sending an SMS reading "DARFUR" to the number 5777, through mobile operators Turkcell, Vodafone or Avea. For donations other than YTL 5, the association can be reached at (216) 521 80 80." Right now you can't participate by text message if you're not a mobile subscriber in Turkey. But the idea should be widely picked up, or Kimse Yok Mu should make the campaign international. It's such a good idea. emily | 8:50 AM | permalink
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