Canvass Services Provided by PAN

Services provided by the PAN team are customized for the needs of each organization. Each project is evaluated. Its strengths and potentials are identified and rated against standard elements of a successful canvass. We work to provide the most desired and relevant training, guidance, and consultation.

Services we provide are:

Budgets and Financial Analysis: Assist staff in setting annual budgets, analysis of financial information and the monitoring of canvass operation expenses.
Recruiting and Hiring: Recruitment campaign: using classified ads, targetted communities, college and universities and creative recruitment; interviewing skills and strategies.
Training: How to identify training needs; developing a training program from first day and basic communication skills to management skills and responsibilities; using training as a means to develop communication skills and active listening abilities; maintaining standard training materials on such topics as preventing sexual harassment; reviewing how adults learn; scheduling inspirational briefers; developing skills and issue trainings.
Staff Development and Management: Building an effective team; upholding standards; problem solving skills; applying progressive management techniques; how to develop staff; the importance of setting the pace and creating vision.
Personnel Policy Design and Development: Provide creative assistance in designing incentive campaigns, providing comparative data, keeping the focus on the costs.
Organizational Development: Provide consultation on mutually agreeable organizational development issues, such as participating in strategic planning, and planning organizational retreats. Integrating with the program of the organization.
Team Building: Coordinating geographically distinct experiences; providing opportunites to mix and match strenghts of intra and inter-office staff
Designing Contact Schedule
Message: Develop "raps" and calling scripts that allow flexibility and commitment and retain intregrity. How to use briefings, fact sheets and frequently asked questions to create effective communication.
Electoral Training: Provide voter registration, voter ID, voter persuasion, Get Out the Vote (GOTV) training.
Membership Development and Activation: Analyze local membership histories; improve field-prospecting efforts; enhance member communications; enhance hot contact efforts. Develop postcard, telewire and letter campaigns and member surveys.
Pledge Fulfillment
List Segmentation Analysis
Membership Programs: renewal, large donor, acquisition, reinstatement
Donor Reporting
List Management Support: Provide state-of-the-art list management techniques and systems, list enhancement guidance, analysis of computer and software needs, evaluation and recommendations of computer and software purchases and development.
Fundraising Adminstration: Provide systems, training, and supervision for accurate and timely contribution processing, including credit card transactions.
Financial Management/Financial Systems