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…
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…
When I learnt that women only make up 26% of the tech workforce, and that over half of women in tech leave the industry before the age of 35 citing ‘non-inclusive’ company culture as the reason behind this decision, it is clear why events like the Women in Tech Festival are so important. It is…
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…
Situation Mind required the IT Infrastructure to be totally transformed and needed a scalable, reliable and secure environment to be able to cope with the fast growth of the organisation, and increase in users by over 50%, in a short amount of time. A long journey began over 5 years to roll out a completely…
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…
Missing People is the only charity in the UK which is dedicated to bringing missing children and adults back mtogether with their families. Missing People were looking for an external partner to review their approach to IT & Digital and establish a strategy aligned to the organisation’s ambitious five-year plan. Challenge Missing People required new…
The Hampden Group, a family-run company, over 40 years old, provides specialist insurance, investment and financial support services. It has grown to become the largest provider of Members’ Agency services in the Lloyd’s insurance market, managing in excess of £2.3 billion of client assets per year. Challenge With the organic growth of the company over…
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…
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…
