The Charity Digital Skills Report is our annual barometer of the state of digital skills across the sector. This is why we (and I personally) love it and a sneak preview of what we’re finding so far from the 250 or so responses. It’s genuinely heartening to have so many…

What we’re looking to do Over January and February 2020 we are seeking out those real life warts and all stories of charities that have started their journey to become digital. This doesn’t happen overnight and we know that they will have important stories that we can all learn from. …

About — Tech for Good Mavens and Mavericks is a community, primarily on Slack (we are planning our first Christmas drinks meet-up in person), dedicated to those freelancers who support organisations across the UK tech for good space with research, strategy, design, evaluation, comms and data — we’re the people who worry…

In the first piece of work from The Catalyst’s Digital Practice workstream, Nissa Ramsay and Helen Lang draw lessons from their mapping of 50 digital maturity frameworks — Over the last three months, Innovation Unboxed, Think Social Tech, and CAST have built a picture of the shape and nature of digital maturity frameworks. Following contributions from a range of stakeholders (responding to this blog post), we identified 50 unique digital maturity diagnostic tools, think pieces, surveys, codes and…

Responding to the priorities, needs and opportunities for digital in the domestic abuse sector Comic Relief, with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Clothworkers Foundation have recently re-launched the UK Tech vs Abuse fund, which is open for applications until 12 noon BST on 4 July 2019. The design of this fund is based on the research and co-design work delivered alongside Snook and SafeLives…

Work in Progress post: Comic Relief, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Clothworkers Foundation have recently announced their partnership to relaunch the Tech vs Abuse funding programme. I’ve been working in partnership with the funders, along with SafeLives and Snook to revisit the original Tech vs Abuse research and design challenges…

In the last few years we’ve seen a plethora of digital codes, tools, principles and frameworks to help us define what successful digital transformation, leadership and practice looks like in the charity sector. However, I’m also acutely aware that both charities and funders can struggle to implement best practice, whatever…

In February and March this year I was commissioned by the Open Data Institute to work in collaboration with their R&D team to develop a best practice research guides toolkit. …

In August — October 2018 I was commissioned by Yoti, in partnership with RnR Organisation to explore the digital identity needs of UK charities and the potential use cases for their products. This aimed to understand the issues and challenges facing UK non-profits when it comes to making sense of…