Survey: Most Haiti text donors have given since

Published January 12, 2012 by
Technology - General News

NEW YORK (AP) ? The massive earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago prompted an outpouring of charitable donations and propelled a new way of giving ? through text messages ? into the public eye.

A new study from Pew looks at people who sent text donations to help Haiti and agreed to be contacted for a survey. It finds that 80 percent of those surveyed did not donate money through any means other than texting. And the majority of them have contributed to a more-recent disaster recovery effort via text.

Three-quarters of people who donated to Haiti via text message were first-time mobile donors.

Although it’s a random study among those who agreed to be contacted, only 13 percent did. It’s not known whether findings would apply to the remainder.

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