{"id":900,"date":"2010-01-15T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2016-06-06T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:55:41","slug":"mobile-texting-raises-millions-haiti-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/mobile-texting-raises-millions-haiti-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Texting Fundraiser Raises Over $10 Million for Haiti Relief Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign of the times &#8211; in what is being called a historical mobile fundraising campaign, US cell phone users have given over $10 million to Haitian earthquake relief efforts through text messages.<\/p>\n<p>The Mobile Giving Foundation is calling the outpouring of support a &#8220;mobile-giving record&#8221; for money raised for a single natural disaster. The foundation is getting around 10,000 texts\/second from contributors.<\/p>\n<p>All text message contributions are charged to the donor&#8217;s cell phone bill and many wireless carriers have waived standard text message fees for the fundraising effort.<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross estimates that $8 million of the $37 million it has raised for Haitian relief efforts has been given by mobile phone users.<\/p>\n<p>The texting donations are also being powered by social networks like Facebook and Twitter, where people are encouraging others to donate using their cell phones and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>[ Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1515046220100115?type=marketsNews\">Reuters.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign of the times &#8211; in what is being called a historical mobile fundraising campaign, US cell phone users have given over $10 million to Haitian earthquake relief efforts through text messages. The Mobile Giving Foundation is calling the outpouring of support a &#8220;mobile-giving record&#8221; for money raised for a single natural disaster. The foundation [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/mobile-texting-raises-millions-haiti-relief\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Texting Fundraiser Raises Over $10 Million for Haiti Relief Effort<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5942,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}