Text to Charity

Text to Charity - SMS Donations

Text to Charity allows your charity organizations to raise money through text message donations. Your supporters can send a text message to your keyword and donate $5 or $10 from their mobile phone bill. 100% of the funds raised are delivered to you (Charities).

“ Making the donation from my cellphone helps me take responsibility for the issues that are important to me. Having it billed to my cellphone bill and knowing that all of it goes to the charity makes it easy for me to donate.”
By Joan Billups

How are the Funds Distributed
A mobile phone user sends a text message to make the $5 donation to your charity using your KEYWORD. The donation is added to the user’s mobile phone bill and when the funds are collected by the carrier they are forwarded to the Mobile Giving Foundation which then sends it to the charitable organizations. It takes approximately 90 days to receive funds.

Text to Charity Solutions

  • Text Donations

  • Volunteer Alerts
  • Donor Drives
  • Viral Fund Raising

Text Donations
A Micro donation is a relatively small amount that when raised from many individuals becomes a strong fund raising channel for a registered charity. Each $5 or $10 donated by the new and existing donor base can aggregate easily and becomes a significant amount raised.

The Power of Many Text Donations uses the power of 23 Million Cell Phone Users to provide a way for registered charities to tap the potential of a younger donor base by accepting micro donations of $5 or $10 at a time. These small donations become a strong ongoing fund raising solutions that can be used anywhere and at anytime by anyone with a mobile phone.

A Paperless Solution Text donations allow for the donation, receipt and pass-thru in electronic format for a completely paperless experience. The text donation is billed directly to the mobile phone bill and is sent directly from the mobile operators to the charities bank account. The online donation receipt allows for all your donations for the year to be downloaded and saved in electronic format.

Text to Donate - SMS to Charity

100% Passed Through
Every Text Donation goes to the charity with new charge from the mobile operators. The 100% Pass-Through to the charity is facilitated by the Mobile Giving Foundation Canada which works as an intermediary to manage the campaign. Text to Charity is a Authorized Reseller of the Mobile Giving Foundation and work with the charity to setup, run and manage the campaign.

  • Immediate Fund Raising

  • 23 Million Mobile Phones
  • Always On and Connected
  • Build a New Donor Base

What charities should apply for this service?

Mobile Giving Foundation Canada (MGF-C) has established certain standards for participation in its mobile giving program including, but not limited to:

  • The organization shall be a Registered Charity with the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”)
  • The organization shall engage in only allowable activities
  • The organization has met its Disbursement Quota
  • The organization shall be in good standing with the CRA and its federal, provincial or territorial
    authority and have been operational for at least 1 year

  • The organization shall make only truthful representations to the public with respect to its
    fundraising, finances, operation and solicitations

  • The organization shall be accessible and responsive to the public and shall have a donor privacy
    policy that allows for donor opt-outs

The full set of guidelines, both mandatory and desired, may be downloaded by clicking: DOWNLOAD

ooober (on SMS) is approved ASP by Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF) Canada for text to Charity (SMS donations)

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