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Welcome to our blog! Find out how charity leaders are leading digital change and get all the latest resources and advice from the Zoe Amar Digital team.
Our response to the Charity Commission’s social media guidance
We analyse what the Charity Commission’s social media guidance means for charities.
What ‘where are you really from?’ really means
Zoe Amar explores the impact of racism at events.
What does good digital governance look like?
Whenever I talk to charities about digital it’s only a matter of time before someone mentions trustees. This #TrusteesWeek I’ve been mulling over how we can make our governance more effective after the increased digital adoption during the pandemic.
What we’re reading this autumn
We round up the books we’ve loved reading over the summer, covering topics from a real life Marvel superhero on the experience of being mixed race to how trauma can create the leaders of tomorrow, and why women are still taken less seriously than men.
Working towards a digitally confident Scottish voluntary sector
As part of our interview series with digital charity leaders, we talk to John Fitzgerald, Digital Evolution Manager at The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO). We hear how SCVO’s latest Call to Action report has highlighted the huge digital changes brought about by the pandemic and what Scotland’s voluntary sector needs to be doing to keep progressing with digital.
What can you do to make your charity a safer place for LGBTQIA+ people?
As part of our interview series with charity leaders, we talk to Kevin Taylor-McKnight, founder of Charity So Straight and Queer Trustees. We find out how the organisations are campaigning to support LGBTQIA+ people in the charity sector and make the sector a safer, more welcoming place for Queer people to be in, whether they’re working, volunteering (including as trustees) or are service users.
Why tech for good needs to be more inclusive
I’m writing this because over the last few months I’ve been working with a group of incredible women, Jo Morfee, Ellie Hale and Siana Bangura from Catalyst and Shanice Blair from Agencies for Good, discussing how we can make the network and also the wider tech for...
Digital fundraising and communities to promote social good
As part of our interview series with charity leaders breaking new ground with digital, we talk to Hanuman Dass, Chairman and Founder of Go Dharmic, a digital first, volunteer organisation that utilises the power of digital to promote social good. We find out how the organisation is utilising digital media and new online platforms for digital fundraising and promoting social good.
Digital delivery provides the wow factor in Scotland
As part of our interview series with charity leaders breaking new ground with digital during the pandemic, we spoke to Pasna Sallis, Founding Director of Weekday Wow Factor, a volunteer, occupational therapist led social enterprise delivering leisure activities across Greater Glasgow for people of all abilities. We find out how the organisation adapted and moved forward its digital delivery in response to COVID and discovered the value of partnerships.
How COVID has driven digital in the Welsh third sector
As part of our interview series with charity leaders breaking new ground with digital during the pandemic, we spoke to Nathan Williams, Development Manager at ProMo-Cymru, about key developments in the Welsh third sector in response to the acceleration of digital working and delivery of services.
New online resources
Digital Strategy Resources
Digital strategy is one of our core services. We have worked with hundreds of charity and public sector organisations we’ve developed these resources to help you.
Digital Leadership Resources
These guides will help you develop your leadership skills, whatever stage you are at.
Digital Fundraising Resources
We’ve helped many charities with digital fundraising and have put together these free online resources.
Digital Governance Resources
These resources are designed to help trustees and senior leadership teams make informed decisions about digital, assess risk and to plan strategically.
Digital Skills Resources
These guides will help your charity assess and grow its digital skills, plan for organisational change and create the right culture for digital.
Coronavirus: Digital Resources
COVID-19 poses a huge challenge. We are working hard to help the sector through the pandemic and have developed these resources to help.
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