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Consumer Attitudes Toward Mobile Giving

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By David Farnes, Executive Director, Mobile Giving Foundation Canada , and Vice President, Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Associatio n and Jim Manis, Chairman and CEO, Mobile Giving Foundation. Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S.

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Things We Like (February 2010)

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2009 total mobile fundraising: $4 million. 2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Pew Internet, in their report on " Social Media and Young Adults ", reveals that the number of teen bloggers has plummeted since 2006. Have they discovered Japan's mobile phone novels fad ?

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Nonprofits Live: Gaming Recap

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Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. Dorado cites the online communities of Farmville, which raised funds for Japan tsunami relief, and FoldIt, which deciphered the structure of an AIDS-like virus. Civic Tripod for Real-World Games and Mobile.

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