How mGive Is Making Donations Mobile

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Photograph by Jamie Kripke

Founder, Mobile Accord
Denver

Eberhard, 32, started Mobile Accord to help not-for-profits organize their mobile efforts. Its mGive platform -- which launched with 10 seconds of TV time during the 2008 Super Bowl -- has helped collect $41 million for Haiti since January.

"When the earthquake hit Haiti, the U.S. State Department asked if we could set up a text donation program for the relief effort. We immediately contacted the Red Cross. Within a day, we had...