Your charity’s digital maturity journey

Welcome to the Smartdesc November newsletter. This month we share how charities can be more digitally mature and offer the following resources: A blog on the five key stages of digital maturity for charities with illustrations Free Microsoft Cloud Security, Cyber Security and Data Protection assessments Free instructor-led MS365 training sessions Our next Quarterly Charity…

Guiding your charity up the levels of digital maturity

In today’s digital age, charities need to continually adapt to leverage technology for greater impact. The digital maturity of a nonprofit plays a pivotal role in enhancing operational efficiencies, expanding reach, giving them a competitive edge and ultimately fulfilling its mission. In this blog, we explore the five key stages of digital maturity for nonprofit…

Quarterly Charity Technology Roundtable – Getting IT Resourcing Right – 25 January 2024

Join us on Thursday 25 January 2024 for our next quarterly Charity Technology Roundtable, alongside Microsoft Tech for Social Impact. Our roundtables provide a relaxed, safe space to meet your peers working at other large charities, share best practice and learn from other organisations. Our fourth roundtable will focus on getting IT resourcing right – a…

Microsoft 365 at Volunteering Matters

Volunteering Matters (VM) bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering. They partner with communities to overcome adversity – tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunity and making sure young people can lead change. VM approached Smartdesc as they wanted to move away…

IT Roadmap at Centre 404

Centre 404 is a charity that offers vital support services to people with learning disabilities, autism and their families across 7 London Boroughs. The charity brought Smartdesc on board to support and improve their IT estate. Challenge Centre 404 were using old, disjointed IT systems that needed overhauling and consolidating. This meant they were facing…

Modern Workplace & Hybrid Working at Mind

Situation Mind, the National Charity, were running an on-premise server estate, associated IT Infrastructure and end user hardware that was reaching the end of its life. They were also undertaking a large office move to a modern workplace, located within the Cancer Research UK Head Office in Stratford. They asked Smartdesc to seize this opportunity…