Webinar: Charity Technology Leaders Report 2025 – 20 May 2025

We are delighted to be back for the third year of our Charity Technology Leaders Report! Join our webinar on 20 May with Tree Hall, CEO at Charity IT Leaders, who will lead a discussion on the 2025 report, alongside Adam Monks, CEO & Co-founder and James Field, Customer Strategy Director, from Smartdesc. Together, we…

Highlights from Microsoft’s Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit 2025

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…

Smartdesc Newsletter: Charity Leaders Winter Social, Microsoft Licensing changes, webinars & more

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…

Smartdesc Newsletter: Solving resourcing challenges with co-managed IT, charity IT events & more

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…

Charity Technology Leaders Report 2024

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…