Our prospect profiles just got some new additions this past week. We’ve got a lot going on, so let’s dive in! Profile Snapshots The first thing CharityCAN users will notice is that Prospect Profiles have a new front page summarizing things like donations, recent board positions, connections and household data. We’re bringing out recent or important information and putting it all on one page. From the snapshot you can jump out to view more detailed profile information, so you can dive into the nitty-gritty. We think this will be a great first starting point when researching a new potential m ..read more

We’re pleased to announce that all the new data we’ve added over the last year in CharityCAN is now available as part of our donor screening data. Now when you use CharityCAN to screen your donor database, we’ll return three new data points: Federal Corporation directorships that match your donor Aircraft ownership Boat ownership For additional fees, we can also append: Matching obituary data Detailed donor demographics detailing overall charitable behaviours While we were in there adding these data points, we also improved our matching algorithm and our output format, so you get more info ..read more

When I told the team I was going to write a blog post to summarize CharityCAN’s 2022, a colleague told me I should get ChatGPT to write it for me. So I did! Here’s what artificial intelligence’s preeminent chatbot had to say when I asked it to “Write me a blog post about a Canadian prospect research software company called CharityCAN’s accomplishments in the year 2022”: In 2022, CharityCAN made significant contributions to the field of prospect research for Canadian fundraising organizations. As a provider of prospect research services, the company has a deep understanding of the unique chall ..read more

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve upgraded the way CharityCAN builds our Prospect Profiles – the profiles on individual Canadian donors in our database that are algorithmically created by mixing and matching data from all of the various datasets that CharityCAN has to offer. This upgrade brings improvements in a few different areas. Read on to learn more! More Data Means More Profiles The goal of our profile upgrade was to primarily bring in some of the new datasets that CharityCAN has launched over the last year: the Federal Corporation Registry, Federal Marine Craft Registry, Federa ..read more

Giving Tuesday is one of the most important days of the year for Canadian charities. Every Giving Tuesday, thousands of charities across Canada receive millions of dollars from donors. In 2021, CanadaHelps estimates that Canadians donated $43.6 million on Giving Tuesday. As Giving Tuesday continues to grow in popularity, it’s a safe assumption that this number will continue to grow, as well. In 2021, Canadians donated $43.6 million on Giving Tuesday – CanadaHelps It is clear that Giving Tuesday has a positive impact on Canadian Charities. One, it is extremely effective in encouraging people t ..read more

We know it’s been a while since you’ve heard from us here at CharityCAN, but that’s because we’ve had our heads down working on three new exciting features for you: Federal Corporation data, Obituary data, and a new and faster way to search our donation records. Federal Corporations We’ve added data from Corporations Canada on all federally registered corporations and their directors. This data includes information on not only privately held corporations but also not-for-profits, co-operatives and boards of trade from all across the country. We think this data will be a boon to prospect resear ..read more

As we start 2022 here in CharityCAN’s home base of Waterloo, Ontario, in some ways it feels eerily like the start of 2021: working from home with limited contact with friends, family and coworkers, with lockdown measures in place to stop another COVID wave from crashing over our healthcare system. In this Groundhog Day of a January it’s been too easy for me lately to feel down and sometimes hard to concentrate on anything that’s not just getting through the next day of home confinement, including our work here at CharityCAN. That’s why it’s been nice for me today to take a look back at everyth ..read more

After months of work behind the scenes, today we’re announcing a new way to do prospect identification in CharityCAN: a new feature we’re calling Donor Discovery. Donor Discovery uses our donation record dataset with our relationship graph to give you a customizeable way to find new potential donors. Set up filters like geographic region, donation amount, connections, donor type (individual, foundation or corporate) and cause to cast as wide or narrow a net as you’d like. We’ll show you donors who have given gifts according to your filters but who haven’t (yet!) made a recorded donation to ..read more

In this video, we assume the role of a prospect researcher entering a capital campaign and identify and do some quick qualification on a corporate giving prospect. This video also demonstartes how CharityCAN uses relationship mapping to show you connections your organization has to your prospect.  The post Corporate Prospect Identification and Research appeared first on CharityCAN ..read more

Here at CharityCAN, we help Canadian charities make positive change in the world by giving them the tools to fundraise more effectively. But we don’t just want to do our part to improve where we live – we also want to make sure we’re not doing anything to make it worse. That’s why this summer, we started to offset the company’s carbon emissions in an effort to become carbon neutral. To achieve this goal, we’re working with a company called Patch to calculate the carbon that running our company and software produces and then purchase carbon offsets to reduce that carbon footprint. As a small s ..read more