AFP Blog

JANUARY 11, 2013

Two thirds (64%) of American adults now use text messaging, and 9% have texted a charitable donation from their mobile phone. Two thirds (64%) of American adults now use text messaging, and 9% have texted a charitable donation from their mobile phone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Did you know that text messages are reported to have an open rate of over 90 percent according to a number of reputable marketing studies? When following the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, the Red Cross quickly mobilized a text donation campaign that raised an astounding $32 million.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Studies done by Dunham+Company in both 2013 and 2018 reveal that even many leading nonprofit organizations have struggled to implement common best practices. Mobile is the New Normal. There are 7 billion people on Earth and 5 billion of them have a mobile phone. Mobile is the new normal. Did you get the memo?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

A free agent, as we are defining it, is a person (many times a GenY, but not always ) who is a passionate about a social cause, but is working outside of a nonprofit organization to organize , mobilize , raise money , and engage with others. I offered to connect the community supporting my work with your efforts in Haiti.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 5, 2015

1 No mobile experience for donation forms. From a study we did early this year , 9.5% of event registrants are on mobile devices. If your website and donation form is not optimized for mobile, you are likely leaving donors behind. Let’s continue to make the nonprofit web better, my people. #1 of donors and 19.6%

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2016

It's true that businesses have gone mobile, but that's because the rest of the world has too. The Red Cross led the nonprofit texting revolution back in 2010 when it launched a successful mobile campaign to ask for donations for the earthquake victims of Haiti. In the U.S. Back then, only 27 percent of the U.S.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The iPad's release next month is best considered as another milestone in the phenomenal expansion of mobile computing. Millions more are already using Google's Android mobile operating system and, additionally, a Google tablet prototype was unveiled recently. Smartphone sales are soaring , with 54.5

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

International phone lines were jammed & I couldn’t reach my husband where he was working in France, to let him know I’d flown to LA, and I’d made it. Back then, he took comfort when he saw a small charge at a RadioShack in Phoenix, and rightly guessed we’d stopped to pick up cell-phone chargers.

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