- CPR is the nation's leading prospect research firm.
- Founded in 1993, CPR is staffed by ten, including three senior managers.
- CPR works well with every size of client, for a variety of needs. Our typical client has an average yearly budget of $10-500 million.
- We're proud to have serviced clients with yearly operating budgets less than $1 million.
- Our research has taken a lead role in campaigns exceeding $1.5 billion total.
- CPR has a client retention rate of 85%.
Tim Halpern was born with public service in his blood. His father was the late Alexander Halpern, the prominent attorney, who was a Commissioner of the
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey , appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY). Alexander Halpern was also a respected attorney and philanthropic advisor.
As a young man, Halpern ran a landscaping and gardening operation - the renowned firm Ground Control.
His core values were shaped by his service as an Eagle Scout and intensive community organizing.
He graduated from Byram Hills High School, and with a BA in English from Bennington College in 1990.
Initially following his dreams of the arts, Halpern was a working actor in TV and film. Ever the entrepreneur, from 2000-04, Halpern produced live stand up comedy in New York City.
For many years, Halpern worked both as a fundraiser and a stand up comic. Notably, he worked at the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children - helping to create a model in non-profit collaboration - and Hospital Audiences. As he says, "I did well enough that I wasn't kidding myself. But not so well that I was laughing all the way to the bank."
But his experience as an artist was central to his developing the kind of empathy, and passion, that it takes to lead the top fundraising firm.
Today, Halpern’s firm does well by doing good.
Jim Hannigan spent seven years with Bloomberg, a leading news and financial data provider, working as a business manager on development of the company’s new legal information product. His experience there included working with management, clients, and technical support staff on implementation, marketing, and training of users and internal staff on new products. Prior to that he was a librarian at top law firms in New York City, specializing in corporate and capital markets research.
He received an MBA in 2001 from New York University's Stern School of Business, Masters in Library Science from the University of Michigan's School of Information in 1994, and his BA from Indiana University in 1992.
Clark Perks has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, technology and client relations. He has worked for award winning news organizations such as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. From 1992 to 2008, Perks worked for the Gannett Company, Inc., an international news and information organization and the largest newspaper group in the United States. He worked in variety of editorial and technology positions at the Courier-Post, a Gannett newspaper near Philadelphia. Most recently he was the Online Advertising Manager, responsible for client relations and new prospect development, and Assistant Managing Editor, with supervisory responsibilities for a newsroom of more than 100 journalists.
He is currently a candidate for a MA from Rutgers University in 2010. He graduated from Southern Vermont College with a BA in English in 1990 and he attended Bennington College from 1986 to 1989.
