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Early Funnel Prospect Research (or How to Find New Donors)
Sometimes prospect research is about looking at list of names and determining propensity, affinity and capacity. This is typically how things work at larger organizations. A near endless stream of names pouring in due to brand recognition, marketing campaigns, event...
Power User Profile – Whitney Neilson
Whitney Neilson is a Stewardship and Donor Engagement Officer at Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation in Alliston, Ontario. Whitney uses CharityCAN to conduct research on current and prospective donors. Whitney and the Stevenson team are long time CharityCAN users...
Setting a Default Organization
The ability to set a default organization is a new feature in CharityCAN that impacts both the prospect profile builder and relationship path searches. In this short guide, you will learn how to set a default organization and a few ways it can help you use CharityCAN...
CharityCAN Granting Foundation Research Guide
Although the majority of giving in Canada is done by individual donors, charitable foundations are an important source of funding all Canadian fundraising organizations should consider. In this guide, you will learn how to use CharityCAN to effectively research,...
2018 Roundup
Another year has come and gone here at CharityCAN! Longtime CharityCAN users may know that this year was a year of big changes here at our parent company of Third Sector Publishing. At the end of 2017, our founder (and my father) Anderson retired, and I moved from my...
New Profile Relationship Editing and Relationship Graph Engine
Today we're announcing that we've supercharged the engine that powers our relationship mapping features. A lot of those changes have happened under the hood here at CharityCAN, and aren't immediately apparent. While you can't see some of the differences to the...
Power User Profile – Cristina Naccarato
Cristina Naccarato is an experienced prospect researcher at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and active member of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Canada (APRA). Cristina first began using CharityCAN as a student at the University of Western...
Proximity and Prospect Research
The proximity principle suggests we form our strongest relationships with people close to us. This is fairly intuitive. Most of us would point to the people close to us - family, friends, neighbours, colleagues - as the strongest relationships in our lives. These...
Organization Integrated Search
This post is on the second of two new features we're announcing today in CharityCAN. Our first post was all about our new FullContact Data Enrichment that we've added to prospect and company profile pages. This post focuses on another exciting new feature:...
FullContact Data Enrichment
Today we're announcing the first of a couple of new additions to CharityCAN: FullContact Data Enrichment! FullContact is a service that, in their words, "transform[s] partial identities into complete profiles to connect with prospects." We've created an integration...