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  • The Mobile Frontier: Successful Strategies from Text-to-Give and Beyond

    This in depth research report identifies the growing trends of mobile technologies being adopted by Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and Civics. The study also systematically identifies the steps needed for nonprofit causes to embrace and employ new mobile technologies to ensure return on investment and engagement.

    Report Highlights:

    “By sending just a couple of text messages per month, you can keep potential donors excited about your cause and keep your organization top of mind with supporters.”

    “Ask supporters to photograph and report activities in their local neighborhood using Facebook, Twitter or other mobile-enabled social media.”

    “Mobile is all about reaching the right people, in the right place, at the right time. So first, think about your audience and where, when and how you interact with these people.”

    “Donations from mobile or added donations or purchases from other forms of outreach that will be driven by mobile reinforcement (better online giving results, better direct mail results, more event attendance).”

    “One in ten US adults have made a charitable contribution using the text messaging feature on their mobile phone. That number is rapidly growing.” Download Report

     

    By: Convio

     

     

     

     

  • Real Time Charitable Giving

    Technology is increasingly relevant to Americans’ monetary contributions to the causes and organizations they support. Previous research from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has found that one in five US adults (20%) have made a charitable contribution online, and that one in ten (9%) have made a charitable contribution using the text messaging feature on their mobile phone.

    Among the key findings of this research:

    • The ability to send small donations using mobile phones facilitates “impulse giving” in response to moving images or events
    • Charitable giving in the mobile age by these donors is a social networking activity, but more through in-person conversations than through online tools

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    By: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

     

     

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