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• Position: STATELINE - Text donations - Brief article

Just a couple of years ago, "texting" was first used to transmit small donations to international disaster relief efforts. (Remember the 2010 earthquake in Haiti?) These texted donations were available to agencies virtually instantaneously, and donors loved the speed at which they could act on their charitable impulses--a win-win. California officials now have decided to permit donations to be texted to political...