Resources

Data Governance Toolkit: A guide to implementing data governance in nonprofits

Guiding non-profit organizations through implementing Data Governance, keeping in mind the changing IT landscape, enterprise architecture, and program deliverables.

A Data Governance Toolkit for Your Nonprofit

Insights and step-by-step guidance on how to effectively scale data governance across nonprofits.

3 Tips for Running a Successful Virtual Workshop

The ability to run effective virtual workshops and working sessions is now an essential skillset.

Virtual Facilitation for Nonprofits Guide | First Installment

Designed to give you the tools you need to excel as a facilitator from day one.

Regional differences impact digital transformation, and they cannot be ignored

A one-size-fits-all approach to digital transformation can be expensive and ineffectual.

White Papers published by NetHope's Center for the Digital Nonprofit

Gain program efficacy; organizational resilience; and innovation from technologies and digital ways of working

Imagine Workshop Blog Collection

Dreambooks

Listed below are the results of the Imagine Workshops. Dreambooks are the roadmaps that lift ideas off of whiteboards and to the beginning of transformational journeys.

When nonprofits move together, the world is changed for good.

How can we use their common strategic goals to find more impact and predict success?

The Nonprofit Data Journey

Data, data, data. At times it can feel like a four-letter word we love to hate.

‘Lives are saved or lost based on the accuracy of data’: the Assessment Data Model IDEA becomes reality

The workshop brought together American Red Cross, Team Rubicon, FEMA, UNDP, NetHope...

Global Covid-19 vaccination efforts: the world’s leading NGOs unite

NetHope Members have expertise in complex health and vaccination programs. Our partners are at the cutting-edge of digital solutions. The result? Huge potential for collective action to ensure that no-one misses out on a Covid-19 vaccination.

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Suitability Toolkit for Nonprofits

The workshop and accompanying materials are designed to provide participants with an introductory overview of AI / ML capabilities and how to evaluate suitability of AI/ML for their programs and projects.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics for Nonprofits - Toolkit

Build capacity in the social impact sector to design, deploy and use AI responsibly and ethically.

Digital Skills

Digital skills needed for success, both now and in the future! Here is an organized guide for what to know, learn, and do to better communicate, collaborate, solve complex problems, advocate, and create new ways of doing good in a world where digital is abundant.

Digital Skills Workshops

These workshops are designed for our nonprofit members to facilitate a discussion around skills in their organizations. Each workshop is a self-serve model and has an easy to follow format.

Digital Skills Framework | Technical Literacy Learning Pathways

1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Click on the Learning Pathway that best describes the information you are looking for.

Building responsible digital organizations in the nonprofit sector. It’s imperative.

I focus on responsible innovation because I believe that ethical, humane technology is key for our individual and collective well-being and our ability to tackle problems for our society and our planet.

Practical insights on chatbots and how to get started

Chatbots are quickly becoming a popular method for organizations to interact with the communities they support and their staff.

4 business models and 8 key capabilities

This future state, where beneficiaries could self-serve through a marketplace of good provided by nonprofits, communities and individuals, is already being accelerated by one NetHope member.

4 moments of truth

One of the most difficult actions for any nonprofit to perform is organization surgery.

4 pathways to digital transformation

Evidence abounds that in the digital economy, merely employing technology to tweak past practices that have led us to current success no longer cuts it.

Digital challenges and opportunities

By engaging a broader range of actors in solving the world’s most pressing challenges, digital technologies unveil new opportunities at the community level.

What it takes to thrive in the digital transformation journey

Embedded in a world of technology abundance, nonprofit boards and leaders increasingly ask, “What does it take for our NGO to thrive in the digital economy?”

Building for a better future is not "overhead"

Dreaming of—and building for—a better future is not “overhead.”  It’s time to change our thinking.

Human-centered approach to digital transformation

“Now people are actually understanding that once we’ve made that step into digital transformation, it’s all about sustaining it,”

Digital vs. Digitized

Digital organizations create new, information-enriched customer solutions and deliver them seamlessly. 

Working toward Digital Responsibility

The digital world has exponentially expanded over the past several years, but the skills we need to protect ourselves from nefarious elements have often not kept pace.

Digital transformation requires nimbleness and passion

Community involvement and empowerment is a legacy for Box.org executive director, Bryan Breckenridge.

Coordinated - and early - involvement key to eradicating poverty

NetHope CEO Lauren Woodman recently got the opportunity to sit down in Seattle for a conversation with Matthew Rycroft

People, data key elements to nonprofit digital transformation

While people are the drivers of this transformation, data continues to be the engine.

Times call for an Agile mindset

Work is changing in the 21st century. One of the fundamental elements of rethinking how work gets done is rooted in digital.

Looking Ahead: The Center for the Digital Nonprofit and Our 2019 Priorities

I spent 16 years working at Microsoft, focusing on bringing technology into emerging markets and sparking a lifelong passion for the transformational impact technology can have on just about any population.

Okta helps nonprofits realize digital future

As global nonprofits, we all aspire to transform our organizations into digitally savvy, agile institutions to accelerate mission delivery and achieve exponential impact.

The Future of 'Good' Identity

Identity is one of those unique topics that matters to every human being on the planet. Being able to prove your identity and use it to access healthcare and education, to get a job, travel, or buy groceries, is what makes our society function.

People come first in digital transformation

#ImpactCloud is a coalition of impact-oriented technology companies working together to help accelerate digital transformation and impact for humanitarian and disaster relief organizations.

HIAS embraces digital transformation

For the 129 years of HIAS’s existence, the dreams and aspirations of refugees—and the threats they face—have remained much the same.

Crossing the digital threshold together

The DNA Assessment is a watershed moment for the global nonprofit sector, setting a benchmark against which we can measure future progress.

An Introduction to Impact Management for International NGOs

Every NGO should be able to manage their impact based on data and evidence.

Lessons Learned from Practical Implementations of AI in the Humanitarian Sector

Learn about two practical implementations of artificial intelligence/machine learning in the humanitarian sector focused on displacement, and meeting the needs of refugees.

FHI 360 Vine – Search Less to Find More and Do More Good

FHI 360 and Techno Brain share their process rooted in human-centric design, the FHI 360 case study and experience, and how you can benefit.

ICT4D Webinar: Skills and Standards for a Digital Workforce

Firsthand insights on identifying ICT core competencies, the process of developing skill standards, and managing distant learning for a digitally skilled workforce.

Creating a Thriving Digital Culture for Nonprofits Part Two: Virtual Workshops

As the health and humanitarian impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic evolve, so do the workplace and economic challenges the crisis has brought on.

Creating a Thriving Digital Culture for Nonprofits: Virtual Culture & Leadership

As the health and humanitarian impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic evolve, so do the workplace and economic challenges the crisis has created.

COVID-19 Health Data Management and Exchange

How health data platforms can be used rapidly and responsibly to strengthen multi-partner COVID-19 responses when collecting, storing, analyzing, and using data locally and at scale.

Partnerships for Health Data Exchange

First-hand insights on innovative approaches to partnership for responsible health data sharing for effective COVID-19...

Designing Digital Tools for COVID-19 Response For and With the User

Now more than ever, organizations need to put people at the heart of their decision-making processes and in their design of digital technologies to better support the global COVID-19 response.

Supporting Farmers with Low-Cost Digital Tools During Covid-19

The COVID-19 outbreak has created extreme vulnerability in the agriculture sector, impacting farmer livelihoods and resilience, food security, and agricultural market systems.

Impact-Focused Coalitions: Advanced Management of Real-time Operations

In the last 10 years, the conservation community has built a number of multiagency coalitions that deliver technology solutions at scale, addressing some of the world's most challenging issues.

Fighting Malaria with the Help of Digital Technologies

Over 3 billion people, nearly half of the global population, are at risk of contracting malaria; and each year, about half a million malaria sufferers die.

Digital Tech to Support the Global Malaria Response

An update on tools applied to support malaria programs, the impact of the pandemic on the malaria response, and how data is used to measure interventions.

Responsible Data: From Legislation to Organizational Behavior

A responsible approach to data is a baseline requirement for every organization, especially in the development and humanitarian sector.

Donor Panel: Data Protection Priorities and Expectations

As the impact of digital data on humanitarian and development programming and decision-making increases, cyber risks proliferate.

How to Ensure Your ERP Keeps Pace with Your Global Expansion

Twenty-first Century nonprofits seeking global influence and the ability to affect positive change are faced with challenges.

Leading with Data and Thriving

The evolution of Mercy Ships' data strategy over the past three years.

Digital Tech to Help Fight COVID-19 Misinformation

Misinformation, disinformation, and false rumors are thriving during the global COVID-19 crisis.

Digital Identity in the Humanitarian Space

Identity is tied to everything you do, but your identity is strewn among multiple organizations and applications. Even if you're lucky enough to have a regularly accepted identity, it can be at risk.

Digital ID: Closing the Identity Gap

More than 1.1 billion people still lack an official identity.

Using Digital Tech to Support Humanitarian Logistics

Logistical challenges tend to overshadow any technology or programming challenges.

Digital Financial Tools for Humanitarian Response

Digital financial tools and increasing connectivity are key enablers for effective delivery of humanitarian aid and support for the financial inclusion of refugees and internally displaced people.

Using Cloud Technology to Enhance Your Mission

Learn how your organization can work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use best practices in change management and Cloud adoption and how to take the first steps in leveraging technology for mission impact.

Digital Innovations for Humanitarian Response

Digital technology is a key enabler in effective and timely humanitarian aid

Introducing the NGO Reference Model

This first in a series webinar provides an overview of the NGO Reference Model.