The pressure on boards is coming from every direction (financial, political, technological), and those pressures are increasingly interconnected. Thus suggests BoardEffect who offer Board management software and services, and were mentioned by Civil Society recently. You can find out more in their free report available at https://www.boardeffect.com/guides/mdo-governance-outlook/.
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Recent research suggests that emailing data to the wrong recipient is top of the list of causes of data breaches, outweighing the next 4 reasons combined. And yet we regularly hear of organisations who still send data files by email, and often unencrypted! The ICO has a useful article on this (it is due to […]
The Chartered Institute of Fundraising has published a new set of Rule Books for door-to-door, private site and street fundraising. They suggest that it marks an important step in strengthening standards across face-to-face fundraising and aligning the public fundraising programme with the updated Fundraising Regulator Code of Fundraising Practice. If you undertake these fundraising activities, […]
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BBC Tech has a report that surprised us, where a data breach occurred when criminals accessed the data of thousands of children which was secured with the password ‘Password1’. It seems to have been a test system, but that is no excuse. The BBC Tech article is at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6r7y03e9m3ro. The ICO has published a blog […]
In case you are not familiar with this, every year sofii.org holds a hybrid day conference entitled “I Wish I’d Thought Of That”. It is packed with speakers who want to share innovation and practical ideas with you and sofii explain that each speaker has just seven minutes to champion an innovative and exciting fundraising […]