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Childsi and Open Fundraising collaborate on mobile giving
Apologies for disappearing off the map for a bit. Our baby girl was born a few weeks ago. As a new mum, Childsi’s cause resonates even more strongly with me (I’ve been a huge fan of their work for a while). Childsi help abandoned babies in Uganda. They’ve also built...
Digital: a core competency for all charity staff?
Last week I blogged for The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network about the launch of Lasa’s Charity Digital Survey. Alongside the Digital: what every charity leader should know report (which I also worked on with the Lasa technology team) I wanted to research charities'...
Balancing the professional and personal on Twitter
The Guardian Public Leaders Network ran a really interesting piece this morning by Tim Lloyd (@timolloyd), on how he tweets about his professional life as head of digital communications at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills alongside his hobbies. It’s...
Is your charity looking for trustees?
I’ve been really inspired by all the great stuff going on during Trustees Week . It’s reminded me how being a trustee is a fantastic opportunity to learn new skills and make a difference, and how charities can benefit enormously from trustees’ experience and...
Digital: What Every Charity Leader Should Know
Apologies for not blogging for a while. I've been snowed under with the launch of Lasa's 'Digital:What Every Charity Leader Should Know' report. It features crowdsourced insights into how charity leaders can engage with digital to build a more sustainable sector,...
A lesson on brand from the Olympics opening ceremony
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I watched the opening ceremony last night. But I liked what I saw. From James Bond to the Queen, from punk to Dizzee Rascal, from the Industrial Revolution to the NHS, Danny Boyle took us on a whistle stop tour of highlights...
Argyll and Bute: how not to handle social media criticism
I bet most of you hadn’t heard of Argyll and Bute council this morning. But by lunchtime they were all over the internet. And lunch is at the heart of this story. Martha Payne, a 9 year old from Argyll in Scotland, began blogging about her school dinners on her...
5 key tips for charity communications strategies
Next week (on 30 May) I’m off to a Charity Comms workshop on charity communications strategies. It promises to be a very useful event and it’s got me thinking about what I’ve learned over the years from working on charity communication strategies. So I’d like to share...
Is consensus always the answer?
Stakeholder management has been very much on my mind this week in the run up to the Charity Leaders’ Exchange event which I am chairing this Thursday. As I blogged about last week, how you take people with you in difficult times- whether they are funders,...
Taking people with you in tough times: the $64,000 question facing the sector
You can’t please all of the people all of the time. That’s a given. But particularly so at the moment. In an era of cuts, restructures and mergers charities are being faced with some hard choices. So when your charity has to make difficult decisions, how do you take...
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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.
Inclusion Resources
Inclusion is a key part of every digital project we work on. Our resources will get you thinking about how to take an inclusive approach to digital.
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Resources
Our team is already advising charities about why, and how, to use AI, tapping into the potential of the opportunities it brings to create efficiencies and better achieve your vision and mission. We’ve created resources to help you understand the possibilities, and what your next steps should be.
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