Fall 2005 Enhancements to the Directorate's Web site

As of December 2005, the Charities Directorate has completed the first part of a two-phase project to enhance its Web site: a series of improvements to the online listings of charities. Internet visitors will now notice several changes to the Directorate's Web site.

The site now displays the following four listings:

• Canadian registered charities
• Newly registered charities
• Recently revoked charities
• Recent annulments

Enhancements to the online search feature, will now allow Internet visitors to perform a search in the Charity Name field using multiple keywords, similar to the “Google” search engine, for all of the above four charities listings. For example, when searching for a specific charity name (“The Red Charity of Canada”), you can enter one or more words in the name. If you enter “Charity Red Canada”, the system will search for all the identified keywords irrespective of the sequence.

A common search criteria screen will be added to enable Internet visitors to search the charities listings by selecting from a drop-down menu. There will also be a dynamic download feature, which means that Internet visitors will be able to download specific data to their workstations, rather than having to download the entire charities listing.

In our continuing efforts to make the site more useful, these listings will be updated on a daily basis to ensure Internet visitors have access to current data.

You can look forward to additional improvements in Spring/Summer 2006, when enhancements to the Charities Web site are implemented.