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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...
Prospect Profile Additions
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...
New Data Now Available In Donor Screening
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...
CharityCAN’s 2022 in Review
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...
Maximize the Potential of Giving Tuesday with Donor Screening
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...
Building Better Prospect Profiles
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...
Federal Corporations, Canadian Obituaries, and a faster way to search
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....
CharityCAN’s 2021 Roundup
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...