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Introducing Metasoft Online Education, a complete series of online, self-paced tutorials designed to help you build the essential skills required to succeed in fundraising.






The Curriculum includes:

Module 1. Making the Case for Funding: How to Build a Compelling Case for Support

Module 2. Finding Funders: How to Conduct Effective Prospect Research

Module 3. Approaching Funders: How to Write a Persuasive Letter of Inquiry

Module 4: Securing Funding: How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal

Did You Know?
Over 700 new Canadian Foundations have been created since 2002.

With millions of dollars in assets, these new sources represent a powerful new funding opportunity for Canadian non-profits.

FoundationNews Search: FoundationNews™ is a powerful free service that helps non-profits keep up to date with newsworthy stories.

Click here to search for foundation news.

FoundationScreen Screen your donor and alumni lists against more than 400,000 foundation directors and officers listed in FoundationSearch
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WebScreen Automatically search over 4500 worldwide online news sources for information about your alumni/donors.
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Director Connections (beta) Update: Now discover all director connections between North American Corporations and Foundations


Released earlier last year, Director Connections (beta) is a revolutionary new relationship mapping product designed to show you at a glance the diverse network of connections between foundations and the various boards they sit on.

Available April 6th, 2010, Director Connections (beta) now allows you to easily view all director relationships between all major foundations and corporations in both Canada and the US.

Importantly the new combined relationship mapping between foundations and corporations uncovers thousands of foundation / corporate connections that until now have been hidden from prospect researchers. This new version graphically illuminates almost 80,000 total director connections that greatly extend the funding opportunity possibilities for non-profits.

"Relationship network maps created with Director Connections start with the organizations you already know, and let you explore possible connections with those organizations you WANT to know - now with just a few known foundation or corporate contacts, members can explore a new universe of connected funder possibilities," says Trevor Skillen, President and CEO of Metasoft.

For a full overview of Director Connections, click here.

Email us or call us toll free today (1-888-638-2763) for more information and a free, no obligation tour!

Introducing the Newest Feature in Director Connections (beta): CONNECTION FINDER

 Find the fastest way to go from point A to point B. Discover new sources of funding. Connection Finder makes it even easier. Play the video below to see more.



Released earlier this year, Director Connections (beta version) is a revolutionary new relationship mapping feature designed to show you at a glance the diverse network of connections between foundations and the various boards they sit on.

The newest feature in Director Connections (beta) is called Connection Finder, which allows you to view relationship network maps, starting with the organizations you already know, and lets you explore possible connections with those organizations you WANT to know. Connection Finder allows you to:
  • Select an organization you already know, and show all the other organizations it's connected to, within 7 degrees of separation
  • Expand those connections to reveal additional levels of connected organizations and directors
  • Collapse connections to allow you to focus on just connected directors
  • View full organization profiles in only one click
  • Print, annotate, save… and more!
For a full overview of Director Connections, click here.

Email us or call us toll free today (1-888-638-2763) for more information and a complimentary tour!


Director Connections

Did you know that more than 1,500 of Canada's foundations are connected by common directors?

Director Connections shows you those important connections at a glance, allowing you to discover new sources of funding! Play the video below to see more.



Metasoft is pleased to announce the release of Director Connections (beta version), a revolutionary new FoundationSearch product feature.

With Director Connections, you can:
  • Discover the network of connections between directors and foundations to develop and diversify your prospect lists;
  • Network effectively and start important new foundation relationships by building on your existing relationships; and
  • Save time and resources, and improve research efficiency!
The initial beta version has a score of intuitive, useful features, including the ability to:
  • Build connection maps from starting foundations or directors
  • Expand connections to reveal additional levels of foundations and directors
  • Collapse connections to allow you to focus on just connected directors
  • View foundation summary profiles in only one click
  • Zoom in and out with easy to use navigation buttons
  • "Mouse over" icons to access additional foundation information
  • Arrange and re-arrange directors and/or foundations to suit your visual layout preferences
Email us or call us toll free today (1-888-638-2763) for more information and a complimentary tour!


Other recent enhancements to FoundationSearch:

My Foundation Manager

Metasoft is pleased to announce the release of the beta version of My Foundation Manager, a suite of new features in FoundationSearch, designed to help our members become even more successful in their critical fundraising efforts.

My Foundation Manager includes:

  • My Prospect Generator - a powerful and intelligent funder-selection system which applies members' defined project funding needs to our database of over 10,000 funders and generates a list of "best prospects" for a project;
  • My Prospect Manager - a new and easy to use Donor Prospect Management system that allows members to add prospects they have found in FoundationSearch, and to effectively manage fundraising progress with them;
  • My Calls and My Reports - capable and flexible tools for managing prospect contact, and for producing prospect-activity reports;
  • My Alerts - a new tool designed to allow you to automatically keep on top of news and information about foundations. My Alerts allows you to easily select funders and track changes in their information - My Alerts will then automatically inform you when critical information - including new financials, granting information, and press articles - is available;
  • My Searches - allows you to create and save your favorite searches in your own search library. Searches can then be run or modified at any time. Future versions of My Alerts will "Auto Run" searches on a periodic basis and report search results changes back to you;
  • My Account and My Education - allows members to set their personal preferences, account information and track their progress with Metasoft’s Online Education System;

Trevor Skillen, President and CEO of Metasoft says, "the Metasoft R&D team have been working hard on this powerful new set of features for the past 18 months - we are excited about putting it in the hands of our members - and future members - and hearing what YOU think!"

To see a brief online presentation of My Foundation Manager, click here.

Global Search

Think Globally! Now you can search over 4 million documents of funder information from the US, Canada, the UK and Australia with Metasoft's new Global Search.

Located on the FoundationSearch menu bar or under Member Services on Big Online, our new full text search gives you the power to search the world for funders with one single click!

With Global Search, you can now conduct keyword searches in all of the resources of FoundationSearch and BIG Online.

This means access to over 4 million records from over 122,000 funders in one search.

Here are the Metasoft databases that Global Search can now access in one search:

  • US Foundation Profiles
  • US Foundation Grants
  • US Foundation News
  • US Foundation 990PFs
  • US Corporate Profiles
  • US Government Profiles
  • Canadian Foundation Profiles
  • Canadian Foundation Grants
  • Canadian Foundation News
  • Canadian Government Profiles
  • Canadian Corporate Profiles
  • UK Foundation Profiles
  • UK Foundation News
  • Australian Foundation Profiles
  • Australian Foundation News
Global Search can quickly generate a globally comprehensive list of information on any particular foundation, corporation, giving interest or issue. This will help you identify the best funding prospects by providing the full scope of all related activity. This powerful new facility will be especially interesting to members whose interests transcend borders, including health, education, religion, social services and the environment.

Look for Global Search in the toolbar of FoundationSearch or BIG Online.


Metasoft is pleased to announce new enhancements to FoundationSearch, North America’s leading source of online funding information for charities and non-profits.

This new Version features the following important enhancements for grant seekers:

  • NEW "Global Grant Visualizer" enables users to view granting on a global level via point-and-click on a World map interface. Including over 57,000 grants representing over $5.2 billion in international giving;
  • National "Grant Visualizer"; An advanced, yet intuitive and easy to use visual data mining tool that allows users to access all granting information via point-and-click on a Canadian map interface. The "Grant Visualizer" tool is also available within individual foundation profiles;
  • Powerful "Grant Analyzer"; A database driven tool for identifying grants on a national level by type, value range, year, recipient, donor and other criteria. The "Grant Analyzer" tool is also available within individual foundation profiles.
  • Detailed profiles for over 9,000 of the largest Canadian foundations representing over 200 thousand grants and totaling over $10 billion in recent giving, with more added weekly; These profiles include full grant analysis information by giving sector in addition to a visual data mining tool that allows users to access all granting information for the foundation through an intuitive point-and-click Canadian map interface;

Trevor Skillen, President of Metasoft says, "This new version of FoundationSearch underlines our ongoing commitment to provide our clients with the most powerful, comprehensive, timely and easy to use source of funding information in North America today. We believe that it will allow grant seekers to even better understand and capitalize on the significant grant opportunities available to them".

Click here for a summary of the latest enhancements to FoundationSearch...
 

Metasoft is committed to providing products and services that best meet the current fundraising needs of you, our clients. Your feedback has been and remains vital to our business.

Metasoft has now formalized part of this process by setting up a group of clients who will make product direction and future enhancements a special focus. Our group of volunteers represents a range of sectors and many parts of North America.

Click here to see the members of our Advisory Board. For information on our client advisory board, email advisoryboard@foundationsearch.com.