Article of the Month: Future of Fundraising, in Third Sector

There are some very smart insights, as well as some challenging calls for meaningful change, in this article from Third Sector, where they’ve asked leading UK based fundraisers to make their predictions about the future of fundraising.  My top five quotes from the piece: “We continue to try to get the next generation of world … Read more

Digital Leadership Principles from the Ontario Digital Service

There’s some great sense and insights in this piece about the principles needed for leadership in the digital age, from the Ontario Digital Service, a wing of the Ontario public service. The principles that the piece’s author Sameer Vasta identifies are: Obsess about the user Be agile and iterative Work out loud Be unreasonably aspirational … Read more

Article: Charities could lose a third of staff if they don’t get a grip on digital skills

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  The challenge with getting non-profits to think digitally is getting interest and support from the people at the top.  Are your senior managers and your CEO recognising the importance of digital? This article in the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network site, also from Zoe Amar, contains some good challenging questions about charities and the state … Read more

Article & Report: A manifesto for digital change from CharityComms

Last year, CharityComms in the UK surveyed over 300 digital leads from non profits to find out how their organisations are doing with digital transformation.  They found that digital leads are usually the people pushing for digital transformation in their organisations, but that for various reasons the message is not quite getting through. CharityComms recommend … Read more

The Charity Digital Toolkit – Online Resource of the Month

Well, this is awesome.  A team of digital experts led by digital non-profit specialist Zoe Amar and David Evans of Skills Platform have written a comprehensive guide to digital for non-profits.  They have taken the eminently useful approach of looking at digital across a range of disciplines, and covering strategy, digital transformation (or ‘leadership’), digital … Read more

Online Tool of the Month: Digital Maturity Self-Assessment Tool for Charities

People working in digital for non-profits know (or should know!) that digital is about so much more than having a presence on social media and sending out emails.  We’re living through a digital revolution and digital continues to have a profound effect on the way people live, communicate and do business.  Is your organisation fit … Read more