June Charity Digest has arrived!
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Welcome to our June edition of Charity Digital Digest, your source for the latest updates, insights, and innovations in the realm of digital transformation within the charitable sector.
Thank you so much to everyone who attended our Digital Inclusion Summit! It was an amazing day with amazing people. We will be sharing resources and recordings from the day next week along with some of the great links and resources that were shared on each of the sessions chat facility. Meanwhile you can find more Digital Inclusion content on our Digital Inclusion hub.
Why not check out our next Summit of the year? The Artificial Intelligence Summit is an in-person event happening on Thursday 17th October. To find out more and to register your interest click here.?
We released more of our new AI series of videos this month too! You can watch the videos on our website here.
This week has been #SmallCharityWeek - a campaign to empower the UK’s small charities to have an even greater impact on society, and to address the challenges they face. We have put together a list of articles aimed at smaller charities to aid in these journeys:
Charity Digital are a registered UK charity, committed to driving the sector forward with digital tools and resources. To learn more about our mission, please click here.
Digital accessibility leadership in charities: A roadmap
AbilityNet ’s annual ’Attitudes to Digital Accessibility’ survey is completed by over 400 people and provides valuable insights into trends and priorities across organisations of all sizes and types.
The 2023 report revealed that only 22% of accessibility leaders were in the charity/voluntary sector. And many more charities are considered accessibility laggards – falling behind their peers in the way that they prioritise and deliver accessibility in their work.
This raises an immediate concern about disabled people not being able to access the digital services of these charities and highlights the need for more charities to take accessibility more seriously and seek to become digital accessibility leaders.
This article provides some ideas about how to achieve that goal.
Sport at the Heart: Using tech in the community
In our latest video, Matthew Burrage, Sport and Community Development Worker at Sport at the Heart, explores how the charity uses digital technology when working with young people and the local community.
Workshop: Overcoming barriers to digital inclusion
Technology is developing rapidly, requiring charities to stay tech-savvy and constantly adjust to the needs of those who are most excluded by all this change.
Systems thinking can help us better adapt within such complex, changing environments. This workshop, in partnership with Dell Technologies, will explore new approaches to overcome challenges identified by attendees and drive impact towards digital inclusion.
This workshop is designed for charities driving digital inclusion at the local level.
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Join us at Charity Digital Academy!
Charities of all shapes and sizes face all kinds of challenges. Whether it’s keeping an eye on their finances or keeping up to date with the latest tech, charities need to build skills, grow their knowledge, and stay ahead of the most pressing developments.
That’s where we come in! Here at Charity Digital, our aim is to educate and inform our members on how to make technology work for them. Our new expert-led Charity Digital Academy courses aim, in just three hours, to provide you with the skills you need to excel.
Check out the sessions below and start your learning journey today!
The course aims to help you make sense of your charity finances. It provides a simple, plain-English introduction, covering budgeting, reporting, governance, sustainability, futureproofing, and so much more. In two back-to-back sessions, each lasting approximately 80 minutes, the course offers key insights into the essential elements of charity finance.
The three-hour course aims to boost your everyday use of AI. It takes a hands-on, practical approach, showing charities how to use AI to improve meetings, boost email marketing, smash data analytics, enhance workflow efficiency, implement AI-powered chatbots, advance accessibility, boost income through grant funding, support content generation, and much more.
The course aims to empower charities to make the most of Microsoft 365. It provides an overview of Microsoft subscriptions, including an exploration of the features in Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium, as well as a look at specialised licenses. It also helps you optimise your email, make the most of distribution lists, improve the use of OneDrive and SharePoint, as well as tackling security concepts such as multi-factor authentication.
Tickets for each course cost just ￡75 + VAT per person.
Preparing for changes to Facebook fundraising tools
As Meta’s fundraising tools end on July 1st, 2024 for charities in Ireland and the European Economic Area, it’s essential that charities in the UK look to the future and prepare for potential changes in the way they raise funds, too.
We explore recent changes to Facebook Fundraising in Europe and what they mean for charities in the UK, including tips on how to prepare for fundraising outside of the Meta platform.
How to switch up your fundraising for 2024
Remaining innovative with your fundraising is a constant process. While some fundraising techniques are tried and tested and many become staples, others can quickly become stale and fail to generate the same income they once did.
We explore three innovative ways that charities can boost their fundraising in 2024, including artificial intelligence and low-code technology.
The AWS cloud platform offers access to high-powered computing, storage, data warehousing, development, analytics, content delivery, and other services to help charities scale without investing in physical infrastructure.
For just ￡79 + VAT, your organisation can access $1000 of Amazon Web Service credits, saving you over ￡700! Qualifying organisations may request $1000 worth of AWS credits per fiscal year. This means that you could purchase $1000 worth of credits today,and then claim additional credits on 1st July!
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