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News 2010
- August 23, 2010
- MissionFish Powers "Donate" Feature in new PayPal Mobile iPhone® App
- iPhone® Users Can Give To A Favorite Cause On The Go Via PayPal
- MissionFish is powering the new "Donate" feature announced recently
in PayPal's updated mobile app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, now available for download. This new feature appears in PayPal's latest version of the app, and allows mobile donations from a PayPal account as an alternative to text-message-based giving. - More than 17,000 U.S. organizations certified by MissionFish are available to receive donations in the app. More than 4,000 charities appear in a U.K. version also powered by MissionFish.
- "The new Donate to Charity feature in PayPal's Mobile iPhone app allows PayPal's 87 million account holders to help strengthen our cause in an easy way, and keep communities safe during emergency situations," said U.S. Fund for UNICEF President and CEO Caryl Stern. "This new way to give is an extension of our continued work to facilitate quick responses from donors, which can help us in our mission of bringing down the number of daily, preventable deaths in children under 5 years-old from 24,000 to 0."
- The app features a location-based tool making it easy to find nearby organizations, in addition to browse and search options. MissionFish provides the nonprofit data and has certified all of the nonprofits as eligible to receive donations. We also process and deliver the funds, and provide a receipt for each gift back to the donor.
- "This is our latest way of making philanthropy a convenient and relevant part of daily life," says MissionFish Executive Director, Sean Milliken. "With more than 2.5 million downloads for the last version, PayPal's iPhone app is a great chance for nonprofits of every size to benefit from a new kind of mobile giving."
- MissionFish also powers donation processing for iPhone® apps from Givabit
(U.S.) and GetGiving (U.K.). PayPal’s Mobile iPhone app version 2.5 is available for download. For more information on the app, please visit: www.PayPal.com/mobile .