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- 1. Pro Bono Volunteering – help at hand … Anne Stafford
- 3. iT4Communities 8,000+ volunteers 300 projects per year
- 4. Pro Bono Volunteers Average = 13 years experience Many technical & business skills Enthusiasm & professionalism Want to give time & skills More volunteers than projects
- 5. iT4C Clients - examples
- 6. How can we help? IT is essential Every organisation needs IT systems that are fit for purpose To do things better To do better things Even small organisations may have complex needs: Websites, databases, printers, IT equipment, maintenance, email, phones, troubleshooting, contracts, networks, outreach workers, people working from home, etc 6
- 7. Why is IT hard to sort out? What do we need? How to start? I don't understand what my options are I don't know how much I need to spend We haven't got any money I don't know who to ask It will take longer to sort this out than it takes to do it the old way 7
- 8. Three ways IT4C can help you - 1 It's all about the brief We listen to what you want to do We create a brief IT professionals can respond to We help you find the right volunteer 8
- 9. Three ways IT4C can help you - 2 We are there to help at every stage You can make unlimited calls You can have unlimited projects You can contact us via phone, email, website 9
- 10. Three ways IT4C can help you - 3 We understand your goals Charity specialists Affordable, low-cost solutions Access to special deals eg CTX 10
- 11. How iT4C Works Organisation registers New request Project Definer Calls £85 = 1 year = many volunteers Project starts = better IT Volunteering Opportunity Volunteer & organisation speak advertised to volunteers Volunteers express interest
- 12. iT4C Case Study – Creative Future A small arts organisation (2 FTE staff) in Brighton About to grow and needed a website, a database & social media help 5 volunteers offered their assistance over 12 months “the best £85 we have spent!” Simon Powell, Director
- 13. iT4C Case Study – Disability Rights UK Merger of advice giving organisation lead to review of information needs Fay Heatley, with over 15 years experience guided them through this process. Together they chose a website with client database that interacted with & was hosted online, keeping the accounts separate. Sarah Cosby of Radar says “working with Fay made this possible!”
- 15. Questions? www.it4communities.org.uk e: anne.stafford@abilitynet.org.uk t: 0800 269 545
Editor's Notes
- Having arrived at this webinar you are probably an iT4Communities volunteer and therefore are likely to know a fair bit about the volunteering programme but for those who are not I will run through quickly before passing on to our partner organisations. Poll 2 – working volunteer Poll 3 – project type
- Quick background to iT4Communities – from the Information Technologists Company, City of London Livery Company In 2010 moved to AbilityNet, the IT Charity working to ensure IT is accessible for all
- Faces, facts & maps Since 2002 iT4Communities have gathered a community of over 8,000 IT professionals wishing to volunteer They represent most of the UK They have many different skills My job is to ensure we have enough interesting projects for them to work on to fulfil their desire to help charities get the IT they need to run effectively & effeciently
- The charities, not for profits (social enterprises) & community & voluntary groups we have asking for help from volunteers are mainly relatively small charities providing support to the most vulnerable in our society but we have a huge range. Some examples are the large Radar, now Disability Rights UK Connexions – large UK wide young people’s charity Pants to Poverty – a fair trade social enterprise that sells underwear that is ethically made & whose profits go to projects that combat poverty
- All projects that we ask volunteers to work on are for UK organisations and most deliver their work in the UK. The highest percentage of projects are websites & databases. We also get asked for networking advice, strategy & some general advice & guidance. Increasingly social media & cloud computing questions get asked. This one is unusal but worth noting – an iT4C volutneer Vincent went to Kenya to set up a classroom of computers. Currently we have a similar project in Westminster libraries, less warm but no less valuable.
- And this perhaps the other end of the extreme – a large strategic project, helping a charity procure & implement the right technical infrastructure during a merge of organisations
- Every year since our inception (I think!) we have recognised the value of all pro bono IT volutneering with an Award ceremony. Since we joined AbilityNet we encouraged them to continue this and this has become the much larger ‘Technology for Good’ Awards, hosted by BT and compared by Mariella Frostrup. This year the Awards were held on Friday 6 July and with over 200 entries across 8 categories it was a wonderful celebration.