Welcome to the February edition of Profound Connections!
The Profound Impact team is proud to kick-start 2025 with new features and capabilities to Research Impact, our data-driven platform, to help researchers find the right funding or partnership by matching them with personalized and targeted opportunities and collaborators.
The new features, which will ensure that your research reaches new heights by centralizing institutional knowledge to reduce administrative burdens and improve internal communications, include:
- Automatic creation of groups based on career stage and research discipline from your institution’s Researcher Profiles;
- Capability to create custom groups to send funding opportunities to specialized research areas and research teams; and
- Instantaneous distribution of grant information to your full group in just three clicks.
I’m honoured to be featured as one of the speakers at the upcoming HER Unbreakable Journey: The Power of I Am Summit event inspired by the 2025 International Women’s Day theme #AccelerateAction. The event, presented by I Am Unbreakable Global Media and the Scotiabank Women Initiative, will take place on Friday, February 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at The Quay, 100 Queens Quay in Toronto. Click here for more information about the program and to purchase tickets
This year marks the 50th anniversary of honoring women in the Waterloo Region via the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Rogers Women of the Year Awards and Profound Impact is excited to again be a sponsor of this important event. Click here to nominate someone for an award in one of the 12 categories or to learn more about how to participate in the ceremony, which will take place in Kitchener on May 22.
The Profound Connections newsletter will be on a publishing pause for a few months as we develop new strategies for reaching out to our clients, partners and community.
As always, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to you. Your unwavering support has been instrumental in our mission to connect great people to do great things and we look forward to achieving new milestones together in 2025.
Sherry Shannon-Vanstone