Digital

Introducing our new open and collaborative initiative to develop digital solutions to the challenges young people face.

Andrew Weston outlines two key questions charities must ask themselves when designing a digital product or service.

In light of the launch of NPC's new report on digital transformations, Tris Lumley explains what good adoption of digital looks like for the sector, and why charities are at risk if they fail to adapt.

As pretty much everyone has noticed, we’re in the middle of a great revolution driven by digital technology and the internet. But what should grant-making trusts and foundations make of this? Tris Lumley argues why much of funding practice is not currently compatible with the tech world.

Technology has played only a minor role in the charity sector. We have websites, social media, and online fundraising, but on the whole our technological advances have been incremental, not transformative. Director of Development, Tris Lumley, hopes this all about to change.

Much of the current discussion about digital transformation is about transforming individual nonprofits and social enterprises from the ground up. This is fantastic. But the transformation I’m most interested in—and where NPC wants to play a role through a forthcoming programme of work—is rooted in value chains.

For many charities aware of the need to modernise, building an app can seem like a great way to step into the twenty first century. But is this the right approach? And how can charities ensure that their beneficiaries remain at the heart of the decision?

Tris Lumley, Director of Innovation & Development, is back with a brand new invention: using design principles to help charities, beneficiaries and tech people work better together.