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Understanding Donation Records in Canada
Donation records are an essential tool for Canadian fundraisers. They provide insight into giving behaviour, help assess philanthropic capacity, and support the cultivation of meaningful donor relationships. But the availability of donation data depends on whether the...
Solving the DAF Puzzle with CharityCAN
Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) are one of the fastest growing giving vehicles in Canada, but they can be difficult to identify and research. For fundraisers and prospect researchers, this is a challenge. This article outlines what DAFs are, why they matter, and how...
Introducing the CharityCAN ARK
The Problem Finding out where a potential donor has made charitable donations is hard work. Data from the CRA details donations from registered charities in Canada, but individual donations can only be found when they’re published via thank you messages and donor...
Burnout in the Non-Profit Sector
Guest article by Adam Revay of ASR ConsultingAn epidemic is gripping the nonprofit sector, and no one is safe. Not executives, not fundraisers, not frontline staff. This isn’t a new virus. It’s burnout, and it could become one of the defining leadership crises of our...
Using Relationship Mapping to Research Private Family Foundations
Private family foundations play a significant role in Canadian philanthropy. For researchers, understanding the people behind these foundations—and their connections—is key. Relationship mapping helps uncover how board members link across charities and companies,...
Friend, Not Foe: Prospect Research and AI
As AI has taken the world by storm in recent years, we’re seeing it being implemented in our daily lives more than ever – it can help you write content, assist you with brainstorming, analyze data and so much more. However, as the use of AI has grown rapidly with...
Key Features and Data 2024
Features Donor Discovery Donor discovery is a new way to identify prospective donors that builds on a classic donation record search by adding relationship filters. Use donor discovery to quickly identify a list of prospects who have a history of supporting your...
AI Donor Summaries for Foundations and Corporations
A few months ago, we launched our AI Donor Summaries feature for individual CharityCAN prospect profiles. Today, we're expanding this exciting beta feature so that our users can create donor summaries for foundations and corporations as well! One of the jobs prospect...
How Accurate is CharityCAN’s AI Profile Summary Tool?
Donor Prospect Profiles contain a lot of data - donation records, relationship maps, real estate info, the list goes on - and typically, that's a good thing. The more data we have, the better we are able to qualify (or disqualify) a prospect. That said, sometimes a...
CharityCAN’s 2023: Models and weights and biases, oh my!
It's the end of 2023, which means it's time to take a look back to see what's happened at CharityCAN over the last 12 months. Since we're a tech company at heart, you can probably guess that this wrap up will talk about artificial intelligence (AI) quite a bit. You're...