We are delighted to be back for the third year of our Charity Technology Leaders Report! We held a webinar on 20 May with Tree Hall, CEO at Charity IT Leaders, who led a discussion on the 2025 report, alongside Adam Monks, CEO & Co-founder and James Field, Customer Strategy Director, from Smartdesc. Together, we…
Last week, Adam and I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd annual Microsoft Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle. This brought together charity leaders from over 1,000 organisations, to hear the latest updates and roadmap for Microsoft’s AI capabilities in the sector. The mood at this year’s summit was really positive. There was a sense…
Welcome to the Smartdesc September newsletter. This month, we are thrilled to invite you to a free networking event for anyone involved in IT at charities – our Charity Leaders Winter Social on 7 November at the Microsoft Experience Centre. Also, don’t miss our blog on important changes to Microsoft licensing, upcoming webinars on Data…
Welcome to the Smartdesc August newsletter. This month, we share how nonprofits are solving technology resourcing issues with a co-managed approach to IT, including a video case study from WaterAid setting out how they achieved it. Also don’t miss our free charity IT community events – webinars on Subject Access Requests and Microsoft Copilot for…
Would you like to learn more about Microsoft 365 Copilot and how it can save you time at your charity? Smartdesc offer a free online 90-minute introduction to Microsoft 365 Copilot including a briefing on how you can get Copilot ready. We will cover: An introduction to Copilot A Copilot demo for Microsoft 365 How…
We are excited to publish our Charity Technology Leaders Report 2024. From January to March 2024, we conducted our second annual survey of charity technology leaders to understand the sector’s priorities, risks, challenges and opportunities around IT. The report summarises the key findings for charity IT leaders, draws out the main themes and trends, and…
Welcome to the Smartdesc March newsletter. This month, we provide guidance around how charities can prepare for AI, and for the PTSN switch off in 2025. We also share upcoming events in London with ServiceNow and Microsoft. Free charity IT resources In this video with our friends at CFG, our CEO Adam Monks discusses the…
Welcome to the Smartdesc February newsletter. This month, we share guidance around Microsoft 365 Copilot and how to prepare at your organisation, including a blog, webinar and more. We also share our upcoming LinkedIn Live on how to reduce IT team workload with good ITSM. Free charity IT resources Microsoft have made Copilot for 365…
Now that Microsoft Copilot is available to all nonprofits, it’s a great time to look at how your organisation can pilot it. Click here to watch our webinar with Microsoft Tech for Social Impact, where we covered: A demo of what Microsoft Copilot is and how it can save your staff hours of manual work…
Join us on Thursday 18 April 2024 at Microsoft London for our next quarterly Charity Technology Roundtable, alongside Microsoft Tech for Social Impact. The topic of this roundtable will be Microsoft Copilot and how you can get ‘AI ready’ at your organisation. We will run through a demo of Copilot and discuss key areas such as:…
