Text-to-Pledge, a mobile donation service, has been enabling fundraising donors to pledge a limitless monetary contribution via text message since it has been introduced in 2007.
According to Reed Baker, CEO of Sophist's Text-to-Pledge, New York, apps require access. So Text-to-Pledge, with its content being broadcast on-screen in a live feed that form a social giving network, gets voluntary charitable donations during exclusive fundraising galas that host media personalities, Academy Award winners, sports heroes, famous politicians, and platinum artists among others.
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Social enterprise, HandiConnect, wins the Audacious-Business Idea competition’s Doing Good category. The company is spearheaded by University of Otago entrepreneurship master’s student Nguyen Cam Van.