👀 Guest blog: Ross McCulloch We welcomed Ross to our Medium, to share insights into @thirdsectorlab.co.uk's Digital Trustees initiative. Ross details what the team has learned about creating successful matches, explains how the initiative has evolved, & looks ahead to what's next 👉 buff.ly/cnjCtl1

Digital Trustees: building boards fit for now and the future

We are delighted to welcome Ross McCulloch, founder and director of Tech for Good digital agency Third Sector Lab, to the CAST Medium for a…

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🔁 Reuse: free support for charities With support from @lbfew.bsky.social, we are working alongside the Tech for Good Alliance to help charities address shared digital challenges via tool reuse. If you'd like to learn more, contact jackie@wearecast.org.uk, or book a webinar place 👉 buff.ly/jKXpPYa

Get your free ticket – Ask Me Anything Digital with the Lloyds Bank Foundation/Tech for Good Alliance/CAST – Zoom

Ask Me Anything Digital with the Lloyds Bank Foundation/Tech for Good Alliance/CAST – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - Looking to scale faster or release your team from the admin burden? Technology c...

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🆕 16 free guides to help you use AI in your charity's work. We've created 16 new guides designed to help you use AI to complete some of the sector's most common tasks. With topics spanning comms, fundraising, admin, reporting and service delivery, there's something for everyone 👉 buff.ly/5gC49Df

Use Cases | Worthwhile Chat

Ready-made prompts and guidance for the nonprofit sector, supporting you and your teams with common day-to-day tasks.

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⚙️ Working With Digital Agencies: A new workshop, open to all 📌 Key topics: - Partner selection - Working with agencies - Practical tools - Commissioning & collaboration skills 📅 Dates (10am-midday): - 21st October - 16th December - 24th February - 21st April Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/Dp0xgci

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💬 User-Centred Design Approaches: a free workshop 📌 Key topics: - User‑centred design - Co‑design with communities - Service design basics - Practical tools 📅 Dates (10am-midday): - Weds 7th October - Weds 2nd December - Weds 10th February - Weds 7th April Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/lb64j3i

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👀 In today's newsletter: 🆕 New free digital & AI workshops ✨ 16 free prompting guides 🔁 Reuse: free support for charities 📌 Guest blog: Digital Trustees ☕ New Coffee Connections matches 📅 Sector events 👋 AI for Grantmakers: Sept meeting And more! Read 👉 buff.ly/haBwq34 Sign up 👉 buff.ly/3xqPV99

💡 Digital Strategy: A new workshop, open to all 📌 Key topics: - Digital strategy - Mission alignment - Digital maturity - Practical planning - Peer learning 📅 Dates (all 10am-midday): - Weds 23rd Sept - Weds 18th Nov - Weds 27th Jan - Weds 24th March Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/UUnFnJo

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✨ Introduction to AI: A new workshop, open to all 📌 Key topics: - Introduction to AI concepts - Sector trends and usage - Tools and approaches for safe explorations into AI 📅 Dates (all 10am-12pm): - 9th September - 4th November - 13th January - 10th March Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/x554yJ6

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🆕 4x free digital / AI workshops! Four new workshops; multiple dates available (Sept - April). Open to all across the sector; book your place: ✨ Intro to AI: buff.ly/x554yJ6 💡 Digital Strategy: buff.ly/UUnFnJo 💬 User-Centred Design: buff.ly/lb64j3i ⚙️ Working With Digital Agencies: buff.ly/Dp0xgci

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📅 Free 'Ask Me Anything Digital' webinar! Join us next month, alongside Lloyds Bank Foundation & the Tech for Good Alliance, as we showcase how charities are using digital tools - and share ways that we can help you to get existing tools to work for you too. Weds 19th August, 2pm 👉 buff.ly/wQw0igA

Get your free ticket – Ask Me Anything Digital with the Lloyds Bank Foundation/Tech for Good Alliance/CAST – Zoom

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💡 Learn Design Thinking: a five-week, self-serve course. Discover how design thinking can help your org quickly respond and adapt to the needs of the people you support. The free course consists of five weekly emails, each packed with advice and a host of additional resources 👉 buff.ly/4igrmhJ

Learn Design Thinking - CAST

Learn design thinking: a five-week, self-serve course

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💡 The AI Exchange: Digest The AI Exchange is a partnership between CAST and IVAR, set up to help charities & funders engage with AI in ways that are responsible and equitable. We'll be sharing progress in a quarterly digest, written by Alex Parker from IVAR. Read the Digest here 👉 buff.ly/YovmW2C

🆕 Our free AI course has been updated! The self-serve, eight-week intro course now contains updated information on safety, risk & ethics; advice on prompting; examples of real use cases - and step-by-step guides on using tools such as Claude and Gamma to carry out everyday tasks. 👉 buff.ly/4gfaOEF

🔢 #GrantAdvisorUK in numbers: • 600+ independent grantseeker reviews • 42 UK funders listed so far • 10 years' worth of reviews • 5 at-a-glance metrics - plus full text reviews Read #grantseekers' reviews and #funders' responses - and add your own! 👉 buff.ly/3esmUuk

About - Grant Advisor

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👀 AI Experimentation Canvas: free to download! Our AI Experimentation Canvas helps you explore AI safely & methodically. It provides clear boundaries & guidelines for testing AI applications, while considering potential impacts on both your work & beneficiaries. Download for free 👉 buff.ly/RjTBsdt

The 5 parts of our Digital Toolkit, & some of the tools in each: 💡 Mindset: Interaction toolkit; digital principles 🔎 Discover: Knowledge board; user needs statements ✏️ Define: Rapid 8s; prototyping 🚀 Develop: Service blueprint; pitch deck ✨ AI: Experiment canvas; spheres visual 👉 buff.ly/3Hc1NvL

❓ Do you feel you're advancing with AI? ❓ Would you like to support your colleagues to do the same? 🚀 Then our free self-serve course is for you! You'll receive 8 weekly emails packed with tips and tools designed to help you support colleagues, and drive your org forward with AI 👉 buff.ly/1KSivpU

👋 The Digital Leads Network is open for membership! Join this vibrant community of 550+ members, dedicated to peer learning & sharing across the sector. Members gain access to events, networking sessions and an AI peer group. Joining is free; fill out the short form at our site 👉 buff.ly/4agzkCk

Digital Leads Network - CAST

A growing community of not-for-profit digital leads committed to making the most of digital technology for positive social impact.

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📌 Explore our AI hub Our AI hub features links to CAST's AI courses, experiments library, peer groups - & more. It also contains trusted resources from others, including templates, playbooks, toolkits & frameworks. All support is free of charge. Explore the AI hub 👉 buff.ly/K1J7GIK #AI #support

🚀 Two free AI courses! We've created two #free, self-serve courses: one providing an introduction to #AI, and another aimed at those people who feel they are advancing with AI, and want to support their colleagues to do the same. Intro course 👉 buff.ly/4gfaOEF Follow-on course 👉 buff.ly/1KSivpU

👀 Worthwhile Chat: opportunity to apply for free access! Deloitte is supporting 150 free places on Worthwhile Chat, the generative AI tool built by CAST & The Developer Society. Open to those new to AI, who work for UK registered charities with an income of under £1m. Apply 👉 buff.ly/MEStUBB

Worthwhile Chat x Deloitte UK | Worthwhile AI

Free access to Worthwhile Chat and peer support. Deloitte UK is sponsoring free access to Worthwhile Chat for 150 small and medium-sized charities.

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🚀 Introducing the Digital Accelerator We've been working with @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk on a project designed to scope out a new, digitally-enabled approach to grantmaking, built around real user needs. Here, the Fund's Lisa Horton shares what's been achieved so far, & what's next 👉 buff.ly/lQzueo9

Rethinking grantmaking for the AI age: introducing the Digital Accelerator

Earlier this year, The National Lottery Community Fund and CAST embarked on the Digital Accelerator, an ambitious project designed to scope…

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💬 Digital Leads Network: member spotlight Continuing our series of chats with DLN members, we caught up with Marion Galley, Head of Digital at Funders Together. Marion shares reflections on open data, digital trusteeship, and why it's sometimes OK to wait for the dust to settle 👉 buff.ly/hXcvr7j

It’s Okay to Wait: Marion Galley on open data, AI and knowing when to slow down

Building trust in the grantmaking sector: why open data matters, what AI gets wrong and why peer networks help you calibrate

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🆕 Our free AI course has been updated! The self-serve, eight-week intro course now contains updated information on safety, risk & ethics; advice on prompting; examples of real use cases - and step-by-step guides on using tools such as Claude and Gamma to carry out everyday tasks. 👉 buff.ly/4gfaOEF

🙏 Your feedback on our newsletter: a two-minute survey. If you read our regular newsletter, we'd love to hear your feedback! We've created an anonymous survey with just four multiple-choice questions, which should take two minutes to complete. Please fill out the survey here 👉 buff.ly/C8Vh4bZ

⌛ Worthwhile Chat: your opportunity to gain free access! Deloitte is supporting 150 #free places for #small and medium sized #charities on Worthwhile Chat, the generative AI tool built by CAST and The Developer Society. Find out more and apply for free access 👉 buff.ly/MEStUBB

Worthwhile Chat x Deloitte UK | Worthwhile AI

Free access to Worthwhile Chat and peer support. Deloitte UK is sponsoring free access to Worthwhile Chat for 150 small and medium-sized charities.

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🆕 In today's newsletter: 🆕 Our free AI course - updated! 👀 Worthwhile Chat: free access opportunity 🚀 Introducing the Digital Accelerator 📅 Events, inc Small Charity Week & AI for Charities 👋 UK funders: hear from Jamie Bartlett And much more! Read 👉 buff.ly/uSGtC9a Subscribe 👉 buff.ly/3xqPV99

👋 Could you be our next CAST trustee? We're seeking at least two new trustees who can help us lead the sector in AI capacity building and policy influence. We’re particularly keen to hear from people that work in smaller charities, and people from underrepresented communities. 👉 buff.ly/ynihYNo

⌛ Worthwhile Chat: your opportunity to apply for free access! Deloitte is supporting 150 free places on Worthwhile Chat, the generative AI tool built by CAST & The Developer Society. Open to those new to AI, who work for UK registered charities with an income of under £1m. Apply 👉 buff.ly/MEStUBB

Worthwhile Chat x Deloitte UK | Worthwhile AI

Free access to Worthwhile Chat and peer support. Deloitte UK is sponsoring free access to Worthwhile Chat for 150 small and medium-sized charities.

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🗂️ Library of AI experiments! Check out our collection of 30+ AI experiments, shared by 20+ charities & funders. Topics include user research, AI policy creation, data analysis & lots more, with contributors sharing what worked well, what didn’t, & the advice they’d give to others 👉 buff.ly/GFZP45O

Library of AI experiments - CAST

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