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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...
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...