Mobile Giving Foundation

San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2009 — Guide by Cell, the nation’s leading mobile technology company for cultural institutions, announced today it is presenting: ‘Raise Funds, Secure Donors, Leverage Giving!,’ a comprehensive Mobile Giving symposium targeting the nonprofit community. The symposium will feature guest speaker and Mobile Giving Foundation co-founder Christian Zimmern, as well as Give by Cell, President and Founder, Dave Asheim. The symposium will take place on Wednesday, May 27 at the Museum of the African Diaspora, MoAD in San Francisco.

Fundacion Teleton MexAmerica, the organization behind the annual Teleton, included a text to donate call to action for the first time ever in a nationally broadcast telethon. The nonprofit partnered with mGive.com to use its groundbreaking technology to raise an unprecedented amount of money through mobile donations. Viewers of the Telethon were asked to send a text message with the keyword TELETON to 90999 to give $5. The tax-deductible donation is charged to the donor's regular monthly cell phone bill.