Paypal Mobile Is Making It Easier For You To Donate To Your Favorite Charity

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This is a little late on the news forefront, but definitely worth noting. In late December, in hopes to be a hit for the Holidays, Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile, announced that PayPal has added a donations feature to their popular mobile application. The app now allows donations to be made easily to more than 23,000 charities. Download the app from our database here or on the Android Market and hit the break for the press release where you’ll find more details on what the feature offers.

Press Release:

Hi all, Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile here to tell you about another exciting update to our Android App.

Just in time for the holidays, PayPal has added a donations feature to our PayPal Mobile for Android app. Now Android users have a fast and convenient way to make charitable contributions to more than 23,000 charities in the U.S, U.K and Canada, including World Food Program USA, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Children’s Miracle Network and Habitat for Humanity International, through our two partners MissionFish and Artez Interactive. With one week left in 2010, there’s still time to make a few last minute donations by year’s end, and the new PayPal Android app makes donating easier than ever.

Not only does the new feature help to simplify the donation process and help users to donate while on the go, it also helps charities reach more donors and expand their base of contributors. The PayPal Mobile app has already been downloaded five million times, and is available in 40 markets, 10 languages and works with all 24 currencies that PayPal supports. With features like searching for nearby charities and the ability to post your donation to Facebook, we think this is really going to help both local and international charities increase the funds they raise, especially for this holiday season.

The PayPal Mobile for Android application is free, easy to download and available now in the Android Market. So if you have an Android phone, you can download the new app and use it to help spread some holiday cheer!

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback! You can also visit PayPal.com/mobile for more information.