Originally published in www.bwob.ca.
Tuesday January 17th, 2012

The best way to learn is by doing, according to James Appleyard, chief executive officer and chairman of Artez Interactive Inc. of Toronto. He has learned how to sell his firm's Web-based fundraising solutions to charities in the United States, U.K. and Australia by doing just that.


Appleyard sees Artez as an electronic alternative for the clipboard-toting fundraiser knocking on doors. Sitting at a computer, the fundraiser…

Artez clients can now use a fantastic new feature to allow visitors to sign-up for fundraising events through their Facebook accounts!

Our new Register with Facebook option allows your event participants to join your campaign quickly and easily. They can also come back to your site and log into their fundraising accounts with their Facebook login! That's one less username and password to remember.

Here's how your event participants can Register with Facebook:

New registrants will see…

2011 was an important year for Artez.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our clients - who are changing the world for the better, our valued partners and our dedicated employees. All of you have made this the most successful year in our history.

What does success mean to us?

Our global Friendship Powered Fundraising client community consists of over 350 charities from the UK to North America to Australia.

Over $135,000,000 was raised on Artez this year for your important causes.

W…

Social Fundraising Takes Center Stage at ArtezInterAction

If you were looking for a conference featuring thought leaders, social media strategists and fundraising experts, ArtezInterAction was the conference to attend in 2011. Sold out in both San Francisco and Toronto Artez delivered two professional development conferences to inspire fundraising professionals to recharge their fundraising campaigns. Bringing together an all star line up of speaker from Kiva, American Cancer Society,…

It's no secret that 2011 was a brilliant year of "firsts"! Artez was first to launch a full fundraising system on the mobile web, and first to build exciting new social fundraising tools into a person to person platform.

We are thrilled to bring you the ultimate online fundraising system; helping charities and nonprofits like yours raise millions of dollars for good causes this year. That's because our mission each day is to build and advance Friendship Powered Fundraising!

We introduced so…

In a nutshell, Artez training is designed to get users comfortable with the major aspects of the Artez system, so that they can create and manage their own peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns.

Our training sessions are split into three sessions. The first one highlights the Configuration Tab. During this hour, you will learn how to navigate the Artez system and how to set-up and manage Tax Receipts, Payment Processing, and Administrators.

In the second session,  we cover Peer-to-Peer Event…

Artez Interactive announced the appointment of Ron Masotti as Chief Operating Officer effective October 31^st. Ron has more than 20 years experience building and generating best in class teams and results in a multi channel environment. He brings an extensive range of experience in sales, strategy and operations. He was most recently at Bell Mobility as Director of Outsourcing Operations where he was responsible for 65% of Bell Mobility call volume and 1600 outsourced employees.

Prior to Bell…

Ipsos Reid
Monday, October 24, 2011

Toronto, ON - Following the economic crunch that began in the fall of 2008, Canadians have felt more positive about giving to charitable organizations, but that is a feeling that may not last. This is the key finding of a study conducted by Ipsos Reid on Canadians and their charitable habits. Comparing a similar 2009 study to the recent 2011 study, Ipsos found that 69% of Canadians have made a financial donation to a charitable organization in the…

Toronto, ON, October 19, 2011 - The mobile world is here and more and more Canadians are latching on to Smartphone, Tablet and/or eReader devices. While some questioned the sales potential of Tablets when first introduced, they now appear to be set to make their mark on the Canadian mobile landscape. According to the most recent wave of Ipsos Reid's Mobil-ology Study of Smartphone, Tablet & eReader users in Canada, Tablet ownership doubled between January and August of 2011.

Access the…