By Jess Threlfall, Senior Researcher, DSC Companies are increasingly taking a proactive approach to supporting their communities, with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives now a core part of many business’ operations. Whether it be through investing time, resources or finances, companies offer a wealth of opportunities that charities can…
Michelle Benson, Founder of Culture of Philanthropy, shares her four-step strategy for how to get the best out of LinkedIn. Is your charity using LinkedIn to generate new business leads and steward/retain your existing donors? Or are you just using it to look up cold prospects, so you can send them cold messages or connection…
By Nick Day, DSC’s Associate Trainer Step 1: Where are you now? This is the critical first step! If you don’t really know what is currently working well and what is not, then it can all seem very daunting. Consider all your key digital fundraising assets and the performance of all your digital communications and…
Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research at DSC, reviews 2024 through the policy lens and looks ahead to 2025. Phew, what a year it’s been. As 2024 draws to a close and we hopefully can all look forward to a pause and some much-needed rest, we thought we’d recap some of the main highlights…