Mobile fundraising, which this present study tried to unveil, is a new innovating technology in the donation culture. Even though the Mobile Giving Industry is still young, it is used by many nonprofit organizations such as Redcross which raised huge ...
Mobile fundraising, which this present study tried to unveil, is a new innovating technology in the donation culture. Even though the Mobile Giving Industry is still young, it is used by many nonprofit organizations such as Redcross which raised huge money to relief Haitians from earthquake in 2010. Mobile fundraising service is not like the traditional channels such as direct mail, phone, email and web because it need not only motivation to donating money in real but also need intention to accept new giving technology. From this pont, we describe the phenomenon of technology adoption with a particular focus on Mobile Fundraising Service based on Technology Acceptance Model and Theory of Reasoned Action. The study aim at understanding the factors influencing the usage and diffusion of new fundraising channel and also intend to capture the current state of mobile fundraising.
To do this, we conducted the survey to people who have intention to donate money and have a real experience of giving money through mobile fundraising service. The major factor directly affecting intention of giving is positive attitude of giving small amount of money, trust in nonprofit organization which offers mobile service as a giving channel and the process of mobile giving, perceived usefulness of mobile fundraising service and innovation. Perceived usefulness is explained by perceived easy of using mobile fundraising service, trust and subjective norms. In addition, innovation and positive attitude of giving small amount of money are major factors which classified respondents who have experience of donate money (larger than 50,000 won within one year) to nonprofit organization and no experience of donate money (smaller than 50,000 won within one year). This variable sets explain a considerable proportion of variance in intended giving behavior. This empirically validated factors will be useful to nonprofit organizations which try to adopt mobile fundraising service in developing and understanding the mobile giving process.