The blog Have Fun, Do Good offers a list of iPhone tools that benefit nonprofit groups.

The list, while short, highlights some of the possibilities for nonprofit groups that are looking for ways to use mobile devices like the iPhone to further their causes, Britt Bravo writes.

“This month’s Net2ThinkTank question on NetSquared is, ‘What do you think will be the big changes, new technologies, hot applications, or successful campaigns of 2009?’” Ms. Bravo writes. “I predict that one of them will be iPhone apps for nonprofits.”

Among the current uses:

• The Monterey Bay Aquarium in California offers a tool that allows people to choose environmentally sustainable seafood when they are eating at restaurants.

• People Against a Violent Environment in Beaver Dam, Wisc., offers a way to use the iPhone to call attention to domestic violence.

• The Salvation Army received a donation for each person who downloaded an application that allowed people to stream Christmas music on their phones. (See the Chronicle’s recent post on the application.)

Have you seen other examples of iPhone tools for nonprofit groups? What other approaches could be developed to benefit charities? Click on the comments link below this post to share your thoughts.