Entries Categorized as 'Recent News'
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Katie Maxfield, June 30th, 2009
In a recent article for Transcapitalist, Melody Hildebrandt wrote about the amazing response to Alicia Keys’ mobile call to action during the BET Awards Show on Sunday, June 28. During her acceptance speech for the BET Humanitarian Relief Award, Keys asked viewers to donate $5 to Keep a Child Alive by text messaging ALIVE to [...]
Categories: Recent News Tags: Africa, alicia keys, BET Awards, BET Humanitarian Relief Award, HIV/AIDS, India, Keep a Child Alive, mgive, mobile donations, mobile fundraising, mobile giving, sms donations, Text Message Donations
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Katie Maxfield, May 22nd, 2009
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States will provide $110 million in emergency aid for displaced people of Swat Valley, where fighting between the Taliban and the Pakistani Military has driven more than 1.2 million people from their homes in the last month. Clinton praised Pakistan for “leading the [...]
Categories: Recent News Tags: Hillary Clinton, Husain Haqqani, mgive, mobile accord, mobile donations, mobile fundraising, mobile giving, pakistan, Pakistan refugees, Pakistan relief, Secretary of State, sms donations, SWAT to 90999, Swat Valley, Text Donations, UNHCR, United Nations
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Katie Maxfield, May 22nd, 2009
Dan Butcher of Mobile Marketer magazine wrote an article today about Alicia Keys’ appearance on American Idol last Wednesday, May 13th. Ms. Keys is a co-founder and global ambassador of Keep a Child Alive, a nonprofit organization that provides healthcare and housing to children with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. Keys was accompanied by Noah, [...]
Categories: Recent News Tags: Africa, alicia keys, American Idol, HIV/AIDS, India, Keep a Child Alive, mgive, mobile accord, mobile donations, mobile fundraising, mobile giving, sms donations, Text Donations, Text Message Donations
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Stephen Joos, May 1st, 2009
Erin Ruddy, Health & Fitness writer for Glamour Magazine covered a new mobile fundraising initiative launched by the T.J. Martell Foundation. To support research for cancer, leukemia and AIDS, text TJ to 90999 to donate $5. Mobile donations for the T.J. Martell Foundation are powered by mGive.
Erin says, “While you may not be able to support [...]
Categories: Recent News Tags: aids research, cancer research, erin ruddy, mgive, mobile fundraising, Text Donations, tj martell, tj martell foundation
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Katie Maxfield, April 14th, 2009
Debra E. Blum wrote an excellent article about mobile fundraising for The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Citing Keep a Child Alive as an example, Blum talks about how mobile can be used to successfully boost fundraising for any organization. Keep a Child Alive’s mobile giving campaign is powered by mGive. Blum discusses how agreements between cell phone [...]
Categories: Recent News Tags: Chronicle of Philanthropy, Debra Blum, Keep a Child Alive, mgive, mobile donations, mobile fundraising, mobile giving, mobile stats
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Katie Maxfield, April 7th, 2009
Mobile Marketer’s Mickey Alam Khan recently published an article about VeriSign, Inc.’s predictions for the future of mobile application technology. As indicated by the article’s title, VeriSign’s messaging and mobile media division recently projected that voting by mobile devices could become a nationwide reality by 2012. “The success of the Obama presidential campaign last year [...]
Categories: Recent News Tags: mgive, mobile accord, Mobile Donation, mobile fundraising, mobile giving, mobile marketer, sms donations, Text Donations, Text Message Donations, VeriSign
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