As economies grow more global and interdependent, international fundraising is filled with great promise when prospect research is utilized effectively. CPR is one of the few firms that specializes in this emerging field. This niche area works in at least two ways.

• Non-profits abroad, or NGOs (Non-governmental organizations), like to identify their nation's citizens who have come to the U.S. Their logic is that once their expats have done well in the U.S., they will long for home, travel back and forth and give philanthropically in their native land. Frequently, this is the origin of so called "American Friends"-type organizations.
• U.S.-based non-profits are adding international components to augment their programs here. For example, a major performing arts organization hosts a production from abroad; or a medically-related organization will host an international scientific conference. Either scenario creates opportunities for global fundraising.

CPR's international work has had these primary components:

• Identifying major multinationals headquartered abroad that have emerging markets or product launches in the U.S.;
• Identifying expatriates from abroad now living in the U.S. who are inclined to support programs in their home country;
• Identifying expatriates from abroad now living in the U.S. who are inclined to support the U.S. operations of programs from their home countries. We have built specific demographic lists for clients (IE: Chinese expats from Shanghai Province living in New York);
• Identifying American philanthropists who have a strong love for, and identification with, the culture of another country wholly separate from their own ethnicity. Frequently this applies to art collectors, individuals who spent their formative years or large portions of their life in other countries, or even those who married spouses from other countries.