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Introducing Donor Discovery
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...
Going Carbon Neutral
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...
Corporate Prospect Identification and Research
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...
Our Pandemic Recovery Summer
This summer at CharityCAN, we're trying something a little different. We're taking a break. Well, that's not quite true - we're taking a lot of little breaks. 8 of them, to be exact. This summer, we're turning every weekend into a long weekend for our employees. Every...
Introducing Avenue Donor Data
We here at CharityCAN would like to introduce a new way to find quick insights about the donors in your Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT database: Avenue Donor Data. Avenue Donor Data is a new application available in the Blackbaud Marketplace that creates an add-in tile...
Using Biographical Data in Philanthropic Prospect Research
Donation records can tell you a person’s affinity for a cause. Salary records and real estate values are useful in gauging a person’s capacity to give. But to really get to know your prospect you need to look at biographical data. Biographical data tells us about a...
Anonymous Co-op Interview Selection at CharityCAN
Anonymous Hiring Back in the summer of 2020, with Black Lives Matter marches happening in every major city in North America, I was challenged to take a look at the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at our little company. As anyone who works at a small...
CharityCAN’s 2020 Roundup
Well... what a year! It goes without saying that 2020 was a challenging time all around the world. In Canada alone the global pandemic has wreaked havoc on our collective physical and mental health and exposed inequality across our society. Large companies like Amazon...
Internal and External Relationship Mapping
We all know how important relationship mapping is to philanthropic prospect research. However, not all relationship mapping is created equal. There are two main kinds of relationship mapping: Relationship mapping done with internal dataRelationship mapping done with...
Donor Screening vs Wealth Screening
Donor screening and wealth screening are sometimes used interchangeably in fundraising. Since wealth screening is almost always a component of donor screening, this misunderstanding is understandable. Nevertheless, it is important to understand the limitations of pure...