Want to help disaster victims? Get out your cell.

Posted on September 14th, 2008 by Wendy Harman

We know most of you know how to text – look at the success of American Idol!

We’re asking everyone to take an action as simple as AI voting, except you’ll be helping people affected by disasters instead of crowning a pop star.

Text the word “GIVE” to 24357 (2Help) and you’ll donate $5 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

Text2Help Banner
If you’re a football fan, you’ll be seeing and hearing messages like this at all NFL games today.

If you’d like to help us pass the word along about this program, please display the widget below.

Know how a noun is anyplace a mouse can go? A widget can be displayed anywhere html can go. Click on it to grab the code.

Filed under: Development, Disaster Response

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