The Mobile Giving Foundation is a non-profit organization based in the U.S. state of Washington, working to increase mobile donating

Mobile donating

Mobile donating refers to donating to an organization through a mobile device. The primary means for mobile donating is through SMS. Mobile donating can also refer to consumers donating their old phones to a cause for recycling and reuse of the device....

 in the US. Chairman and CEO, Jim Manis in early 2008 fostered a deal between the top four major US carriers, allowing non-profit text message fees to be waived.

Campaigns

The Mobile Giving Foundation in conjunction with the United Way launched the first major mobile donating campaign during Super Bowl XLII

Super Bowl XLII

Super Bowl XLII was an American football game on February 3, 2008 that featured the National Football Conference champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League champion for the 2007 season...

. This was the first time a non-profit mobile donating campaign had its fee’s waived from all major US carriers that didn’t involve a major natural disaster.

Currently the Mobile Giving Foundation has plans to or is currently working with the United Way, PBS, ASPCA, Keep a Child Alive, IFAW and Amnesty International.

Organization

The Mobile Giving Foundation is headed by Jim Manis, whose background includes mobile campaigns to help Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

 victims and the Indonesian tsunami

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake...

. Jim also was a founding member of M-Qube, a mobile content company.

Mobile Donating Process

The Mobile Giving Foundation collects all money donated to charities through wireless carriers. Carriers currently partnered with the Mobile Giving Foundation pass 100% of donations through to the nonprofit. The Mobile Giving Foundation then takes 5% to 10% of the donations to cover messaging and short code costs and 90% to 95% of donations are passed on to the non-profit organizations running the campaigns.

Funding

Mobile Giving Foundation is currently funded by QUALCOMM

Qualcomm

Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...

, 1024 Wireless Services, Acta Wireless

Acta Wireless

Acta Wireless is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to wireless and telecom companies. Acta Wireless has several offices with locations in Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C, and London, England.-Investments:...

, Hook Mobile, Mobile Accord, and VeriSign

VeriSign

Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...

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