Interactive, mobile responsive annual reports. Why not build excitement, deepen engagement and extend your organization's reach with one of the most important communication pieces you produce?
Mobile Responsive Online Impact Report (Annual Report) for the Women's College Hospital Foundation
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New website launched for the Oakville Hospital Foundation
We love the new mobile responsive website that we designed and developed for the Oakville Hospital Foundation. Have a look at let us know what you think!
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Check out Community Food Centres Canada's #myfoodhero Campaign
We were so excited to help out our clients Community Food Centres, with their #myfoodhero Campaign. We worked with CCFC to design and develop them a mobile enhanced, dynamic campaign website that invites Canadians to share their food hero stories and make a donation that will ensure more low-income Canadians have access to the healthy food and support they need.
Canadian Food Centres Canada builds vibrant, food-focused places where people can have delicious meals, cook and garden together, find friends and support, and become forces for change. Donate today and CCFC will send your food hero a tribute card and gift on your behalf.
Take a look at the #mfoodhero campaign, make a donation and share your #foodhero
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We’re hiring! Join our fabulous team!
Current Career Opportunities at A.K.A. New Media and raisin
We have some great career opportunities – Have a look!
Business Development Manager (Intermediate-Senior Sales Position) - raisin
Front-End Web Developer (Angular, Web API) - raisin & A.K.A. New Media
Web Designer - A.K.A. New Media
Account Coordinator - A.K.A. New Media
We have some great career opportunities – Have a look!
Business Development Manager (Intermediate-Senior Sales Position) - raisin
Front-End Web Developer (Angular, Web API) - raisin & A.K.A. New Media
Web Designer - A.K.A. New Media
Account Coordinator - A.K.A. New Media
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Oakville Hospital Foundation - Top 10 Websites of the Month Globally
Every month, thousands of websites are developed globally using Kentico CMS. Kentico showcases only ten of the best designed and developed websites. A.K.A. is excited to share that the new website we developed and designed for our longtime client, Oakville Hospital Foundation, has been selected as one of the "Top Ten Websites for January 2018" and is nominated for "Site of the Month."
Oakville Hospital Foundation (OHF) works with the Oakville community to support Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. Oakville residents depend on their local hospital to deliver the healthcare they need. OHF has been a client of A.K.A. since 2002 and this is the second full redesign and redevelopment of their website done by the A.K.A. team. Goals of the new Oakville Hospital Foundation website redesign included establishing an elagent, mobile responsive, online platform to attract, convert, and deepen the relationship with its target audience, including its supporters, event participants, partners, and donors.
Check out Oakville Hospital Foundation's beautiful new website at:
www.OakvilleHospitalFoundation.com
Check out Kentico's news here:
www.kentico.com/blog/kentico-top-10-websites-for-january-2018
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Here we grow again, we’re hiring!
We have some great career opportunities. If you’re interested in joining our award-winning team, apply here:
Business Development Associate (Intermediate Sales Position)
Web Designer
Account Coordinator
Front-End Developer – Angular, Web API
Business Development Associate (Intermediate Sales Position)
Web Designer
Account Coordinator
Front-End Developer – Angular, Web API
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Baycrest Centre & Baycrest Foundation – Top 10 Websites of the Month Globally
Every month, thousands of websites are developed globally using Kentico CMS. Kentico showcases only ten of the best designed and developed websites. A.K.A. is thrilled to announce that the new website we developed and designed for client, Baycrest Centre, has been selected as one of the "Top Ten Websites for February 2018." Baycrest Centre’s foundation, Baycrest Foundation, was also designated a Top Website from Kentico.
Baycrest Centre is an academic health sciences centre fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Baycrest provides an exemplary care experience for aging clients, combined with an extensive clinical training program for students and one of the world’s top research institutes in cognitive neuroscience. Through its commercial and consulting arms, Baycrest takes its sought-after expertise, education and innovations to other healthcare organizations and long-term care homes, both in Canada and internationally. Baycrest Foundation’s mission is to enrich the quality of life of their community by providing crucial funding to Baycrest Centre in support of programs and services that promote excellence in care, research, education and innovation in brain health and aging.
The new websites needed to clearly reflect and promote the areas of excellence that Baycrest embodies (Care, Research, Education, Innovation), and do so in a user-friendly, user-focused and intuitive fashion. Baycrest is celebrating of their centennial this year and their online presence needed to better reflect the organization and ensure that it is positioned optimally for the centennial and beyond.
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A word from Oakville Hospital Foundation
A.K.A. is always honoured and delighted to work with Oakville Hospital Foundation and celebrate the positive impact their work has on the Oakville Trafalgar Hospital and their community. Their Chief Development Officer shared her testimonial about the recent award-winning website design and development done for the foundation by the A.K.A. team;
"For more than a decade, Oakville Hospital Foundation has had a trusted and valued relationship with A.K.A. New Media. Together, we have launched several redesigns over the years and their insights and strategies have always hit the mark. The experience during our most recent web redesign was no different. From the very beginning, they took the time to truly listen and understand how our Foundation and the community we serve has evolved. They helped us build a vision for this project and engaged our most important stakeholders along the way. Their expert knowledge, professionalism, and exceptional customer service made the whole process feel effortless. The end result is a beautifully designed website that is not only functional, responsive and user-friendly, but also reflective of our organization’s brand and personality."
Suzanne Hallsworth
Chief Development Officer
Oakville Hospital Foundation
Check out the new Oakville Hospital Foundation website.
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Luminato Festival Website Nominated for an Awwwards.com Award
Luminato Festival, Toronto’s Festival of Arts and Creativity, is an annual ten-day celebration of the arts launched in 2007. The festival is a global multi-arts festival dedicated to performance, visual art, music, theater, dance, and more. Luminato Festival required an online presence that would celebrate the four pillars of Accessibility, Diversity, Collaboration, and Transformation to guide and inspire the Festival program. A.K.A was honored to work with the talented Luminato team to reimagine the festivals digital presence for their 10th anniversary and beyond.
The result was a dynamic and engaging website with a custom festival schedule planner to help festival goers plan and share their personalized festival schedule, leaving users with a lasting impression. A flexible website that has the capacity, and key capabilities to transition to their annual festivals for years to come. A.K.A. continues to work with Luminato each year to help launch each new festival season.
The website has been a hit with the web community; Named a Site of the Month and nominated as Site of the Year by Kentico. Most recently, the site was nominated for Awwwards.com award.
We would love if you could vote for Luminato for an Awwwards.com award here!
Luminato’s 2018 Festival Season was just announced, check it out and buy tickets here!
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Hope Air named a Website of the Month
Hope Air is a not-for-profit that works to provide those in financial need with free travel to medical care far from home. In Canada, healthcare coverage starts at the door of the doctor’s office. How you get to the doctor and any related travel costs fall to you. Hope Air is the only national charity providing free flights to low-income families who must travel to specialist medical care that does not exist in their communities. Hope Air believes that where you live in Canada and how much money you make should not determine your ability to access our healthcare system. A free flight lets families focus on what is truly important – their health.
Goals of the new Hope Air website included creating a website that was visually and structurally appealing to Hope Air’s audience, which would serve as a major component of their overall communication strategy. It was important to create a compelling first impression to visitors by showcasing a fresh, modern look to engage stakeholders while connecting the right user to the right content to drive them to take action. Clearly conveying the impact that Hope Air has on people’s lives in an authentic and compelling manner was a priority.
“Hope Air is very pleased with the outcome of our new website. A.K.A. was able to incorporate the unique features we required with novel solutions."
Doug Keller-Hobson,
CEO
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What is SSL Certification?
When users are online, they often share sensitive data with a companies’ websites, such as their name, address, passwords or credit card information. But how do they know if it is safe for them to share their personal information with a website? How can someone be sure that a website is a safe place where no one will hack or steal their personal information? SSL Certification is the safest way to give more security to your website visitors.
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Win a trip to see Broken Social Scene in Creemore!
Want to win a trip to see Broken Social Scene live in a new barn in Creemore?
This June, 1,000 people will gather for a magical night under the stars at The New Farm in Creemore to eat great food, hear Broken Social Scene blow the doors off the barn, and raise money for programs in low-income neighbourhoods that increase access to healthy food.
Win tickets to see this sold-out event here!
For the past nine years, the concert at The New Farm has been bringing bands, chefs, and food-lovers together in support of low-income communities. The event has raised more than $750,000 to support Community Food Centres to buy high-quality produce from small-scale local, organic farms. This year, the event will support programs in five low-income communities in Ontario, and Community Food Centre Canada's national programs.
A.K.A recently launched the newly designed and devleoped CFCC website. Check it out and Donate here!
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Community Food Centres Canada Named a Top 10 Website of the Month
We recently launched a new website for our client Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC). CFCC helps build health, belonging and social justice in low-income communities across Canada through the power of food.
CFCC needed a new website would help achieve their vision of Canada where food is treated as a basic right and central to health, and where everyone has the means, knowledge and voice necessary to access good food with dignity. As CFCC believes that collaboration leads to bigger impact, a primary goal was to transform the CFCC website into an active online communication vehicle that would work as a central knowledge exchange hub for the broader food security sector, all while empowering CFCC staff to manage their online presence efficiently and effectively through best-in-class tools.
The new website has been a success and Kentico has named it one of June’s Top 10 Websites of the Month!
It has been a pleasure working with the amazing CFCC team and A.K.A. looks foward to maintaining a long term relationship with the innovative organization. CFCC's Director of Communication, Christina Palassio shared this about working with A.K.A.:
"Working with A.K.A. has been terrific. The team brought their thoughtfulness and expertise to our project, listened to our needs and challenges, and worked with us to figure out how to meet them. Trying to satisfy the needs of multiple stakeholders can be a daunting task and having the team at A.K.A. on our side was a huge help. We knew that whatever came up, they'd help us figure it out. We've never looked as good on the web as we do today.”
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New Website for Jack.org
Jack.org is Canada’s only charity training and empowering young leaders to revolutionize mental health.
Through Jack Talks, Jack Chapters, and Jack Summits, young leaders identify and dismantle barriers to positive mental health in their communities. Jack.org is working towards a Canada where all young people understand how to take care of their own mental health and look out for each other. Jack.org needed a new website that would support their mission of creating a Canada without shame, where all those who need support get the help they deserve. The challenge was creating a website that would inspire Canada’s youth to join the movement while connecting those seeking help with the proper resources.
The A.K.A. team helped Jack.org reposition and ignite their evolving brand through designing and developing Jack.org a website that would support their communication strategy through a visually driven and engaging design strategy, supported by real and authentic storytelling. Of paramount importance was adopting a best-in-class content management system that empowers Jack.org to effectively manage their online presence internally while ensuring it supports efficient website maintenance and allows for scalability where needed.
Check out the new Jack.org website and make a donation that will support 2,500 young leaders working across Canada to dismantle barriers to positive mental health. Jack.org has many giving options and they work to make it as simple and rewarding as possible. Give today and help fuel the movement.
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New Website for Headwaters Health Care Foundation
A.K.A has launched a new website for Headwaters Health Care Foundation!
Together, A.K.A and Headwaters created a website that would inspire, build and nurture relationships with donors, in order to assist them in their goal of enabling Headwaters Health Care Centre to provide sustainable, high quality, patient-centred health care to the community. A.K.A. is also looking forward to launching the new website for the Headwaters Health Care Centre which will further extend the Headwaters brand.
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2018 at A.K.A. New Media
2018 was great for A.K.A. New Media! Our team grew with amazing additions to our talented team, we helped our clients grow and further their causes, and we invested time and effort into our culture and to making a positive impact on our community and world. We had the honour to refresh communications for existing clients, created new impactful online brands for new clients and had fun doing it!
Here’s a look at some of the stuff we got up to in 2018:
A.K.A. has had the honour of working with the Oakville Hospital Foundation for over ten years. In January, the newly launched Oakville Hospital Foundation website was named a Website of the Month by Kentico. A.K.A. also had the privilege to work with its longest standing client (close to 20 years), The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, in developing their latest Online Annual Report. Early in the year, AKA raisin rolled out the new and improved Peer-to-Peer and Ticketing modules, enabling hundreds of clients to build custom P2P Fundraising Campaigns and Special Events.
A.K.A. designed and developed a user-centric new online brand presence for both the Baycrest Centre and the Baycrest Foundation in celebration of their centennial year. In February, both sites were named a Site of the Month by Kentico.
In April, the AKA raisin team visited New Orleans for the 55th Annual AFP International Fundraising Conference and networked with clients and other not-for-profit organizations from across North America. Later that month, the new logo, brand presence and website for Hope Air was launched and it was named a Website of the Month by Kentico. Hope Air is the only national charity providing free flights to low-income Canadians who must travel to specialist medical care that doesn’t exist in their communities.
In June, we helped Community Food Centres Canada launch a new online presence to better support their vision of a Canada where food is treated as a basic right and central to health. The website was named a Site of the Month by Kentico. Some fun, engaging, successful social media campaigns soon followed.
In July, we launched the dynamic new website for Jack.org, which has gotten rave reviews and is a strong contender for Kentico’s 2018 Site of the Year! A.K.A. is so honoured to be working with Jack.org as Canada’s only charity training and empowering young leaders to revolutionize mental health.
In October, some of the AKA raisin team made the trip to Philadelphia to attend the DonorPerfect Community Network Conference to connect with partners, clients and prospective clients. In addition to continually welcoming and onboarding new clients, the raisin was busy rolling out a slew of incredible new features, functionality and integrations with many more coming in 2019. Stay up to date with all things raisin on their website.
In November, some of our AKA Broker team exhibited at the AppliedNet Conference in Nashville, Tennessee where we mingled with the North American insurance community and gave a presentation about effective digital strategies. Later that month, some of our strategy and design team headed to Bethesda, Maryland, to meet our awesome new clients at Round House Theatre (currently in development).
December was busy! We celebrated our Holiday Staff Party by sharing an amazing seven course Italian dinner together while raising funds for charity. We launched the new website for Headwaters Health Care Foundation, which will help inspire, build and nurture relationships with donors – we’ve also started to work with Headwaters Health Care Centre to create for them a new user-centric website, building upon the recent work on the foundation website. Last but certainly not least, we launched the amazing new website for USDM Life Sciences, a global compliance and technology firm based in Santa Barbara, California.
This is only a taste of all the fantastic work we did in 2018. A.K.A. is incredibly privileged to have a slew of exciting projects underway for long-time and new clients, so stay tuned for what we have on the horizon in 2019! As always, we're ready for new challenges and can’t wait to see what the new year brings.
Greetings from everyone at A.K.A. New Media, we wish you an amazing and successful 2019!
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Headwaters Health Care Foundation named a Site of the Month!
Headwaters Health Care Foundation needed a new website that would support their purpose to grow, inspire, and nurture relationships with donors to assist them in their goal enabling Headwaters Health Care Centre to provide sustainable, high quality, patient-centred health care to the community.
The new dynamic online presence will help attract, inspire and engage Headwaters Health Care Foundation’s various target audiences, all while empowering Headwaters Health Care Foundation to manage their online presence efficiently and effectively through best-in-class tools.
A.K.A. is enjoying also working with the Headwaters Health Care Centre in designing and developing their new website in order to define, establish, and extend Headwater’s online brand positioning with a unified online presence. Keep an eye out for the launch of the Headwater Health Care website soon!
Check out the new Headwaters Health Care Foundation website and make a donation here!
Check out Kentico's January Site of the Month blog featuring Headwaters here!
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USDM Life Sciences Named a February Site of the Month by Kentico.
A.K.A.'s recent launch, USDM Life Sciences, named a February Site of the Month.
USDM is a Santa Barbara-based life sciences consulting firm with over 20 years experience in global compliance and technology. USDM challenged us to make them stand out in the crowded Life Sciences field. The result is beautiful, immersive site that reflects the energy of the organization and their bold solutions that accelerate innovation and compliance.
Check out the new USDM Life Sciences website here!
Check out Kentico’s February Sites of the Month post here!
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University Hospitals Kingston Foundation website named a Site of the Month by Kentico
University Hospitals Kingston Foundation (UHKF), which is the fundraising arm of Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Providence Care, needed a new modern website that would reflect their values of excellence, integrity, collaboration and resourcefulness. The result was a beautiful and dynamic website which will better inspire generosity for the health of Kingston families and beyond. The new website seamlessly integrates with AKA raisin, to support online donations from UHKF’s generous supporters.
The new website was built on the best-in-class, commercially supported CMS, Kentico, which has empowered the UHKF team to manage all aspects of their website internally. Kentico, which is a leader in CMS industry, has offices world-wide and is used for over 25,000 websites globally, recognizes ten websites a month as the best designed and developed. Through the hard-work and collaboration of the A.K.A and UHKF teams, in March, UHKF was recognized as one of the Top Sites.
Check out the new UHKF website here and consider making a donation which will help make the people of Southeastern Ontario healthier.
Check out Kentico's blog here!
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Be There is Live!
Our friends at Jack.org launched a game-changing mental health resource that teaches us how to better be there for one another. Whether you have 5 minutes or 5 hours, learn more at BeThere.org
A.K.A. is honoured to have the opportunity to work with the Jack.org team, designing and developing this groundbreaking website. Be There is an immersive and beautiful mobile responsive website built on a best-in-class CMS which empowers the Be There team to manage their online presence efficiently and effectively.
Check out the Be There website, share it with the young people in your life and donate to a great cause!
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