Ten

Posted on: 02/03/10 by Molly Loyd

A fast-paced, high level afternoon briefing to challenge and inspire senior executives

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Trends in 'A-Thon' Fundraising

Posted on: 01/03/10 by Alex Bono

Sponsored fundraising events have raised over $247 million for Candian organisations. Find out how they did it and what can be learned from the Top 20Walks/Runs/Rides 2009 Survey.

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CHASE

Posted on: 19/02/10 by Molly Loyd

Rapidata will be on the first stand you see, come over and say hello.

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Change to the Direct Debit Indemnity Claims Process

Posted on: 18/02/10 by Scott Gray

During October 2010, Bacs will be phasing out the paper based process and migrating to a fully automated reporting and payment settlement system (DDICA). Read to find out what this means for your organisation.

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Feminist Fire Walking

Posted on: 10/02/10 by Molly Loyd

Rapidata do some rapid walking for the Fawcett Society

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New Enhancements

Posted on: 08/02/10 by Alex Bono

Last night, Artez released several exciting new enhancements to all of the fundraising modules. The highlights of 2010’s first release include Address Verification and the ability to add page titles to the Fundraising and Team pages.

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Raiser's Edge Intergration!

Posted on: 04/02/10 by Molly Loyd

We're very excited to annouce Raiser's Edge intergration

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Add Images to your Artez Pages

Posted on: 02/02/10 by Alex Bono

It’s finally here. After months of asking, suggesting and wishing I am happy to announce that you can now embed images on your Artez event pages.

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Hold fire before you fight to keep cheques

Posted on: 27/01/10 by Scott Gray

Before you fight to keep cheques - Hold fire! Concerns have been voiced across the sector about the planned abolition of cheques in 2018, but little has been said about the alternatives that will be developed and the benefits of offering a suite of payment options to donors.

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An Executive's Guide to Online Fundraising

Posted on: 26/01/10 by Molly Loyd

Find out how the CEO's do it across the pond with Artez' latest webinar

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Haiti Emergency Appeals

Posted on: 14/01/10 by Molly Loyd

The web is an important direct response channel

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Snow - update

Posted on: 08/01/10 by Scott Gray

Cold spell - latest news

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Snow - Urgent Rapidata contact details

Posted on: 06/01/10 by Scott Gray

service levels due to heavy snow

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We've now saved 13.2 trees!

Posted on: 21/12/09 by Molly Loyd

Recycle and save trees

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Nominate your favourite Holiday Campaign

Posted on: 18/12/09 by Alex Bono

Is your organisation running a great holiday campaign? Or do you have a favourite campaign from another charity? Artez are looking for nominees for the 2009 competition.

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UK Payment Council Confirms Closure Of Cheques By 2018

Posted on: 17/12/09 by PRESS RELEASE

Rapidata Urges Charities To Prepare & Start Converting Supporters To Other Methods

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Rapidata.

Posted on: 15/12/09 by Molly Loyd

This year we have made a donation to Wood Green Animal Shelters

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Is your donation page converting visitors to donors?

Posted on: 14/12/09 by Alex Bono

How does my online donation page look? Wrong question! What you should be worrying about is how it converts!

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New Direct Debit Bacs Guide and Rules Released

Posted on: 10/12/09 by Scott Gray

Download the latest Direct Debit Service User Guide & Rules from Bacs

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New Look for Share Buttons

Posted on: 09/12/09 by Our friends at Artez

It’s a great idea to enable the widget on the donation thank you pages so that your donors can tell their social networks that they just helped to support your cause!

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Donate with PayPal

Posted on: 07/12/09 by Molly Loyd

PayPal is now a payment option on Artez

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Give with Confidence!

Posted on: 04/12/09 by Alex Bono

This week the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) announced a campaign to encourage the public to give with confidence this Christmas.

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The Demise of the Cheque

Posted on: 30/11/09 by Alex Bono

Rumours have circulated for years and every now and then a story makes it into the press about a bank who refuses to deal with a charity’s cheques or sends them to a central sorting office. Over the last few months stories have been cropping up about the demise of the cheque and now it seems that day has come.

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Importing Donations into Artez

Posted on: 23/11/09 by Alex Bono

Are you adding lots of offline donations through data entry? Did you know that your Artez solution offers a bulk donation import tool? The Donation Import is an easy way of keeping your event participant’s fundraising totals up to date and accurate.

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Giving Thanks

Posted on: 19/11/09 by Alex Bono

At every fundraising conference and in countless articles we hear that donor’s #1 complaint about charities is that they don’t say thank you or it takes them ages to acknowledge a gift. We've got a few suggestions on how to thank your donors this year.

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Philip & Adrian's Top Tips for Making Online Fundraising Work

Posted on: 16/11/09 by Alex Bono

Adrian Bradbury, co-founder of Athletes for Africa and Philip King, President & CEO of Artez Interactive shared their top online tips with Canada's Globle and Mail newspaper earlier this week.

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Fundraising Webinars from Artez

Posted on: 13/11/09 by Molly Loyd

Artez' Philip King shows you how to funnel your donors!

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Canadian Charities are cashing in on web 2.0 revolution

Posted on: 12/11/09 by Alex Bono

A recent article in a national Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, featuring Artez client GuluWalk, examines how charities can profit from online giving with very little start up capital.

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Public Sector Outsourcing Conference

Posted on: 11/11/09 by Scott Gray

Join Rapidata at the Public sector conference on outsourcing direct debits

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Inspiring Ideas from the IFC

Posted on: 06/11/09 by Alex Bono

At last month’s IFC conference, I heard lots of inspiring ideas from fundraisers around the World. Here are my top 2 from the conference:

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Free Webinar Series

Posted on: 05/11/09 by Alex Bono

Our friends at Artez have six great educational webinars coming up in November and December.

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How can Direct Debit make your lotteries more profitable?

Posted on: 03/11/09 by Alex Bono

was recently invited to speak to the National Lotteries Council about how Direct Debits can increase lottery ticket sales.

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Visit Rapidata at the IOF Scottish Conference

Posted on: 28/10/09 by Scott Gray

Rapidata will be exhibiting at the 2009 Institute of Fundraising Scotland Conference

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Avoid the Postal Strike and Go Online This Christmas

Posted on: 20/10/09 by Alex Bono

We still have Christmas Appeals on the brain, but this time we're looking out how to make sure your regular givers donate online this Christmas.

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Rapidata are attending the IFC 2009

Posted on: 19/10/09 by Alex Bono

Alex and Scott are attending IFC 2009

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Forget the postal strikes and use eDirectDebit

Posted on: 16/10/09 by Molly Loyd

Online Christmas appeal using DD

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Join Rapidata at the IoF Event Fundraising Conference

Posted on: 13/10/09 by Alex Bono

Molly and Alex from the online fundraising team are attending the IoF Event Fundraising Conference tomorrow

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Charity Chat with The Prostate Cancer Charity

Posted on: 12/10/09 by Molly Loyd

selling Christmas cards online

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Australia's Biggest Morning Tea

Posted on: 06/10/09 by Molly Loyd

Fundraising news from Down Under

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Tis the season to start thinking about Christmas Fundraising

Posted on: 05/10/09 by Alex Bono

Now I'm the last person to encourage the retail madness of Christmas in October, but now is a good time to start planning your Christmas Fundraising campaigns...

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eDirectDebit - Scheduled Hosting Maintenance Notification 11 October 2009

Posted on: 25/09/09 by Hilary Thompson

As part of Rapidata`s commitment to continually improve its secure hosting service, we will be conducting scheduled maintenance on Saturday 3 October 2009.

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Great Gorillas!

Posted on: 21/09/09 by Molly Loyd

Gorillas spotted in London

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Getting Product Support

Posted on: 16/09/09 by Alex Bono

Do you need help with a support query? We now have 4 dedicated email addresses for product support. All you need to do is send as much information as possible about your query or problem to one of the email addresses below.

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We've saved 8.4 trees

Posted on: 14/09/09 by Molly Loyd

We all try to do our bit to help the environment, switching off lights, using less washing powder and putting a Hippo in the loo cistern. All great green ideas but I'm never really sure how it helps. Until now!

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Essential Maintenance on Artez Global

Posted on: 10/09/09 by Alex Bono

Scheduled maintenance is taking place on the 13th of September on the Artez Global server

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Purchase Template update

Posted on: 09/09/09 by Molly Loyd

The purchase template allows Charities to sell items such as Christmas gifts, merchandise and ticket sales for parties or events. A few of our Charities use them, here some great examples:

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