We recently posed a question on LinkedIn, asking people if they have ever made a donation via text. For those who have first-hand experience with text-based giving, we wanted to know what their experiences were. A whopping five people responded (those of interest in this post):

Chaim Shapiro of Innovative Educational Leadership said, "I have not donated through text, but my understanding is that the fees range dependent on the carrier. Some of those rates CAN be more than 15-20%. I don't know if…

Artezians are passionate about fundraising and Harp Athwal, our IT Manager, just proved it again!

This year Harp raised $7,540 for Guluwalk, a Canadian initiative that benefits children in Northern Uganda. As a top fundraiser, Harp will get to visit a youth centre in Uganda to see his fundraising efforts come to life... literally! Congratulations Harp!

Check out this article by CityNews for more details.

And as for Harp's fundraiasing strategy, "It was strategy was pretty straightforward", he…

A shift is occurring with Canadian donations: they're moving online.

Ten years ago I was fortunate to be "donated" by my employer, A.T. Kearney, and join Anne Golden's team at United Way of Greater Toronto as their first-ever VP of eBusiness...and I haven't looked back since. In those heady days I thought we would replace all of the paper in the workplace campaigns in the matter of a few years!

As with most things Internet, it takes much longer than originally forecast. Today we estimate that…