Welcome to the Charity Digital Skills, Innovation & Tech Collection

Hear about how Anthony Nolan is using digital channels and innovation as well as providing relevant and timely content to keep the youngest people on our register engaged and lifesaver ready.

This session covers non-financial KPIs and other indicators to ensure a fundraiser is on the path to success, whilst pushing back against unrealistic targets and help us maximise our chances of raising philanthropic gifts in spite of the turbulence of raising money.

If you’ve hopped on the AI bandwagon, but are not entirely sure if you are making the most or best out of it, let’s explore some key do’s and don’ts. We will go through trust (and other high-value) fundraising areas and provide step-by-step examples of how to (or not) apply AI. Although You Want To Empower Yourself To Leverage Your Fundraising Success, ⭐ I know you don’t want to sound like you’ve used Chat GPT, so let’s change that!

Are your A4 Word documents with your trusted headings getting diminishing returns? Trying something new can help your charity’s bank balance, the grants managers reading your applications — and you. Award-winning short-film maker* and failed comedy writer Matt Zeqiri takes you on a journey through space and time to explore the techniques that can give your proposals a new dimension.

This is a really practical session giving you the tools you need to save time, be more efficient and get results.

Join Olivia for a discussion on how fundraisers committed to anti-racism can provide monitoring and evaluation to funders in a way that measures true impact, rather than just facts and figures.

CAST and #FixtheForm join forces to share how funders are responding to feedback on their grantmaking practices.

In this session Caroline shares her thoughts on the value of identifying, aligning and working alongside your star supporters and what this partnership – if done well – can bring to your organisation.

We will explore how younger donors are using GoFundMe as a way to respond to trends and news that they see break particularly via social media.

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to optimize your current approach, this session will give you the confidence to future-proof your fundraising.

If you’ve hopped on the AI bandwagon, but are not entirely sure if you are making the most or best out of it, let’s explore some key do’s and don’ts. We will go through trust (and other high-value) fundraising areas and provide step-by-step examples of how to (or not) apply AI. Although You Want To Empower Yourself To Leverage Your Fundraising Success, ⭐ I know you don’t want to sound like you’ve used Chat GPT, so let’s change that!

Join Blackbaud and JustGiving as they delve into how tech is powering every stage of your supporter lifecycle.

This session will cover the anticipated changes to UK data protection law due in the summer of 2025. This is essential knowledge which will enable you to plan for the future and ensure compliance with the law.

Hear about how Kim conducted a skills audit and used this data to develop and deliver and Essential Digital Skills Programme for all staff in the organisation.

In this informative session Magid, the director of data at Catch22 and co-founder of the charity-specific AI platform CauseCompanion AI, will show you how to use dashboards to bring your data to life.

This session will provide a brief history of the recent wave of large language models, illuminate some of their intriguing capabilities, and provide a broad overview of the social and ethical questions that they raise as they become part of mainstream human-computer interaction. Drawing upon her extensive experience working at the intersection of ethics, cognitive science, and AI, Winnie will provide a critical insight into how we might critically evaluate the role of conversational AIs in our lives.