As the crises surrounding the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan unfold, mobile giving has not been quite as prevalent as it was just a year ago for Haiti.

Nonprofits today have the chance to take advantage of the emerging mobile medium before consumers start to get bombarded by text messages asking for donations.

Register now for Mobile Commerce Daily’s 2011 Nonprofit Mobile Day Feb. 16 in Washington to learn how Sesame Workshop, American Cancer Society, American Red Cross and Childhood Foundation deploy mobile for marketing and transactions.

Soles4Souls has rolled out a mobile-optimized site that lets user donate to the nonprofit and gives them access to information about the charity.

The American Red Cross will have raised almost $1 million in the 24 hours since it issued an SMS call-to-action for victims of this week’s earthquake in Haiti.

Mobile giving this year is expected to end with $2 million in pledges, an exponential increase from last year’s $350,000. In this Q&A, the Mobile Giving Foundation’s Jim Manis expounds on the state of mobile giving.