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CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology

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UK charity. Supporting charities and social impact organisations to harness the full power of digital - and working with funders & partners to create an environment of support. www.wearecast.org.uk

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CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 1d

📅 Digital Leaders AI Week: Join our AI trends session!

As part of Digital Leaders AI Week, we'll be hosting a session focusing on five key #AI trends for digital leaders, drawn from our experience of convening peer groups for charity digital leads and grantmakers.

12.30pm, 20 Oct 👉 buff.ly/1qtlyiM

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 2d

👀 Free workshop: AI Experiments for Charities.

Join David Scurr and Ross McCulloch at 11am this Weds, 8th Oct, as they cut through the AI jargon & show how charities can experiment with AI today.

Access free tools & templates - and bring your own questions for an open discussion 👉 buff.ly/Esg5ipy

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 6d

🆕 AI Together: Data & Privacy

Tori Ellaway shares the key discussions & actions that came out of our latest AI Together internal learning session on data security, including seven practical tasks designed to strengthen the ways in which we handle data & privacy when using AI tools 👉 buff.ly/X1S0x8F

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 7d

🆕 AI learning platform!

Digital inclusion charity @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social has created the AI Gateway: a free, interactive platform designed to demystify AI, enabling you to learn at your own pace and gain confidence to use AI in your daily life.

Explore the new platform here 👉 bit.ly/ai-gateway

Artificial Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence | Good Things Foundation Learning

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 8d

👀 Free workshop: AI Experiments for Charities.

Join David Scurr and Ross McCulloch at 11am next Weds, 8th Oct, as they cut through the AI jargon & show how charities can experiment with AI today.

Access free tools & templates - and bring your own questions for an open discussion 👉 buff.ly/Esg5ipy

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 9d

📅 Digital Leaders AI Week: check out all the free #AI #charity sessions!

Digital Leaders have gathered some key charity speakers, to offer insights into the ways in which AI is being applied by the sector right now, and the key things to consider when using AI in a charity context 👉 buff.ly/iZ87PpC

The UK's nation wide week of learning and sharing best practice in AI.

aiweek.digileaders.com

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 9d

🆕 Shared Digital Guide!

@citizensadvicesort.bsky.social share the steps they took when building CaseNote, a speech‑to‑text and AI summarisation tool.

The tool is designed to halve the time spent writing case notes, whilst still preserving advice‑quality standards and data privacy 👉 buff.ly/7Ilx5D4

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 13d

🧪 Ten ways in which organisations are experimenting with AI

CAST's Programme Lead Ellen Smyth outlines ten ways in which #charities and #funders are experimenting with #AI — and shares a link to our AI Experiment Library, which now contains 30+ experiments from 18 organisations 👉 buff.ly/BuHD4iR

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 14d

📅 Digital Leaders AI Week: Join our AI trends session!

As part of Digital Leaders AI Week, we'll be hosting a session focusing on five key #AI trends for digital leaders, drawn from our experience of convening peer groups for charity digital leads and grantmakers.

12.30pm, 20 Oct 👉 buff.ly/1qtlyiM

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 15d

👀 Ten simple AI tools - with tips, demos and experiments to try for yourself!

David Scurr provides an overview of ten simple AI tools, outlining which tasks each tool is best suited to, and sharing a host of tips & demos - as well as tiny experiments you can dive in and try today! 👉 buff.ly/8nEq6zb

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 16d

🆕 Library of AI experiments!

Check out our growing collection of 30+ AI experiments, shared by 18 orgs.

Topics include user research, AI policy creation, data analysis & transcription - with contributors sharing what worked well, what didn’t, and the advice they’d give to others 👉 buff.ly/GFZP45O

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 20d

🧰 New Guide: Building a #chatbot that enables staff to access internal info.

From researching user needs & selecting a supplier, through to testing the chatbot & supporting staff to use it, @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social provide a host of tips & tools, alongside their own experiences 👉 buff.ly/t8wZx0i

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 21d

👋 The Digital Leads Network is open for membership!

The DLN is a vibrant community of 400+ members, dedicated to peer learning & sharing across the sector.

Members gain access to events, networking sessions & an AI peer group.

Joining is free; fill out the short form at our site 👉 buff.ly/4agzkCk

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dxw @dxw.com · 22d

This summer, Mary Henes at the Martingale Foundation and Harry Harrold at @neontribe.bsky.social worked on a project exploring thoughtful AI use in fundraising.

Keen to hear more about it? Register below for tomorrow's peer group meeting hosted by @techforgoodcast.bsky.social 👉 tr.ee/ofcT7D

AI for Grantmakers peer group meeting - CAST

An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI.

www.wearecast.org.uk

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 22d

📅 Digital Leaders AI Week: Join our AI trends session!

As part of Digital Leaders AI Week, we'll be hosting a session focusing on five key AI trends for digital leaders, drawn from our experience of convening peer groups for charity digital leads and grantmakers.

12.30pm, 20 Oct 👉 buff.ly/1qtlyiM

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 23d

🚀 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

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 27d

🆕 Newsletter out today! Featuring:

🔟 Ten AI tools - with tips & demos
🚀 CAST's two free AI courses
📅 Digital Leaders AI Week talk
👋 AI for Grantmakers group invitation
👀 AI Leadership Essentials: new videos
📅 IVAR's Leading in Uncertainty dates
⭐ New CAST team members!

And more! 👉 buff.ly/uwo252h

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 28d

👀 Check out the latest Shared Digital Guides!

➡️ Euan's Guide on recruiting staff using Airtable
➡️ RSPCA on helping staff find info using a chatbot
➡️ Noise Solution on using GenAI to analyse video content
➡️ Citizens Advice SORT on automating case notes with AI

See all 92 Guides 👉 buff.ly/3zIbdzS

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 29d

🧪 Ten ways in which organisations are experimenting with AI

CAST's Programme Lead Ellen Smyth outlines ten ways in which #charities and #funders are experimenting with #AI — and shares a link to our AI Experiment Library, which now contains 30+ experiments from 18 organisations 👉 buff.ly/BuHD4iR

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧪 Five ways funders are experimenting with AI.

Ellen Smyth takes a look at five ways in which funders are using AI, with content from @londonfunders.bsky.social, @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk, @healthfoundation.bsky.social, The Masonic Charitable Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

👉 buff.ly/am8u7Qs

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · Sep 4

🆕 Shared Digital Guide!

@citizensadvicesort.bsky.social share the steps they took when building CaseNote, a speech‑to‑text and AI summarisation tool.

The tool is designed to halve the time spent writing case notes, whilst still preserving advice‑quality standards and data privacy 👉 buff.ly/7Ilx5D4

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · Sep 3

With the support of our partners at IVAR, the learning from this peer group feeds into the development of Open and Trusting use of AI in grantmaking 👉 buff.ly/gccz18h

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · Sep 3

📅 Open invitation: AI for Grantmakers peer group

If you work in #grantmaking and are interested in the challenges & opportunities presented by #AI, please join us on Weds 17th Sept, from 1-3pm, as we bring together #funders of all sizes for a peer discussion.

Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/49dF4MS

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · Sep 2

🆕 We've just kicked off our 'AI Together' programme, designed to help us build AI skills as a team.

In a new blog, we outline the workshop format used, detail some of the challenges identified, and lay out our planned next steps - as well as sharing links to AI support resources 👉 buff.ly/TkaUEOz

CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · Sep 1

🆕 Ten simple AI tools - with tips, demos & experiments to try for yourself!

David Scurr provides an overview of ten simple AI tools, outlining which tasks each tool is best suited to, and sharing a host of tips and demos - as well as tiny experiments you can dive in and try today! 👉 buff.ly/8nEq6zb