I just finished reading a short blurb in the most recent edition of “Campus Technology” about Mobile Fundraising. According the the article, Huston-Tillotson University is using vendor Wireless Factory to allow people to donate to the university by texting the code “HT” to the number “52000″. The donations will be billed directly to the individual’s phone bill.

I’m interested in this sort of grassroots fundraising ideas, but I’m not sure how open people will be to paying an extra charge on their phone bills due to the donation they made. What if the phone company setup two “bills” one for the phone services they provide and one for the extra donations, applications, ringtones and such we buy? Kind of like how on my iPhone. I have a bill from Apple for any applications I purchase or music I download, plus a bill from AT&T for the service?