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So thrilled and excited to see this pilot launch. We've absolutely loved working with the Pancreatic Cancer UK team. A huge credit to them for making this happen. It's going to make such a positive difference to people affected by Pancreatic Cancer 💜

Have the conversations today that will help more young people see tomorrow. A poignant, hard hitting but incredibly powerful campaign from Campaign Against Living Miserably. Missed Birthdays. To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, Calm have launched their latest installation at Westfield White City from September 9th to 11th. In the last decade, 6,929 young lives have been lost to suicide. And right now, suicide is the most common cause of death for those under 24. Each balloon represents a young person who took their own life, and a birthday they didn’t get to celebrate. This installation is an urgent call to act now; to have conversations today that will help more young people see tomorrow. And CALM have launched the CALM C.A.R.E Kit - a free online resource that provides you with everything you need to be there for the young people in your life. Download it here https://bit.ly/3AQU5IB Together, we can end youth suicide.

Very much so Ingrid Murray! Innovation and entrepreneurship funding and support shouldn't be limited by gender. But as Amy Lewin at Sifted points out, 'The percentage of venture funding that reaches all-female founding teams has stagnated in the UK at just 2%; a statistic described by the government’s Women-Led High-Growth Enterprise Taskforce as representing “no improvement in the past decade.” So frustrating. Let's stop wasting time. Let's Fund More Women.

Hanging coffees Hanging sandwiches Hanging lunches A beautiful story of social impact.

We were excited to launch Innovation 2.0. We’re even more thrilled by the incredible response it has received. The doom loop of innovation struck a chord with many of you. Innovation is nothing if you can’t get new ideas delivered. And the doom loop of innovation is a story we’ve seen far too many times over the last 13 years. A new innovation team gets setup with a lot of excitement internally about their potential to help the charity deliver it’s mission. Expectations will be set and investment will be made in that team. That team develops a lot of new ideas, but few, if any of those ideas get launched. The ones that do take a year or more and teams get stuck in treacle at that stage. Over 2 or 3 years, as few ideas get launched and even fewer succeed, questions rightly start to get asked by a CEO and Finance Director as those early expectations aren’t being met. Innovation falls down the priority list, innovation budgets get cut and in some cases that Innovation team everyone was so excited about gets de-prioritised. Then leave it a year or so, the charity remembers it needs innovation more than ever and they start all over again. Something needs to change. Innovation is hard, and things will of course fail. But we know it can work even harder for the sector and there can be lots more success stories. Click here to read more about Innovation 2.0 and find a link to the launch webinar. https://lnkd.in/ep4mHfgQ

Today was the first official meeting of the Good Innovation Charity AI Collaboration (also known as ... unlocking the potential of AI for charities). When we published the Future of Charity report last year GI committed to bringing together the sector to work through a bunch of the challenges. The AI collab is the first of these to get off the ground. (Governance is very much in the works and looking for funders - if you know anyone who wants to reimagine charity governance, as is social currency - more on both of these to come). It was awesome to see representatives from nine UK charities in our kick off this morning (and I might have got a little tearful after months of meetings to get this off the ground). Whilst this is a paid collaboration, we are talking as a group about how we can share the learnings and outputs with the sector so that others can benefit. Finally, thank you to Tim B. (Comic Relief), Jeff Gould (GOSH), Peter B. (Macular Society), Jenny Danson & Lucy Leyland (Mind), Liz Cadman (National Trust), Johnty (John) Gray & Will Ballantyne (Oxfam), Jim Sanders (RNIB), Arran Murray Sanderson (WaterAid), and Vicky Johnson (Royal Marsden) for trusting us to take the leap as a collective. The collab is being led by Ben Cohen (he/him/his), Caitlin MacDonald and Harry Ellis from Good Innovation. I'm still hanging around asking awkward questions about the future, but anything brilliant that the group creates will absolutely be down to their hard work and facilitation skills.

Values awards! It’s really important to all of us that we not only live our values in all of our projects, but we also take time to recognise and celebrate how we’re doing it. This quarter Heather Ramsay and Caitlin MacDonald hosted an olympics themed ceremony to  celebrate how we….. ➡ Obsess Over Impact ➡ Agitate for Change ➡ Only Accept Awesome. ➡ Work & Win Together Congrats to this quarter's gold medal winners! 🥇 Yvonne Filler Ben Cohen (he/him/his) Hannah Paley Fisher Eef Leurs

A week ago already! Last week we launched Innovation 2.0 - a new era for charity innovation that helps you go further, faster and with more impact. A massive thank you to the 150 people who tuned into our launch webinar to learn more.  We’re really looking forward to seeing where this new approach takes us, and we hope you are too. We had some great questions on the day - here are just a few.... ➡ Have you tested Innovation 2.0? Yes!  We're currently working on live projects that use this new approach and we're seeing great results. ➡ Does this work for Service Design as well as Fundraising? Sure.  Absolutely.  Given the process is largely the same, in so much as gathering insight, idea development and testing, we are currently using this new approach on projects with both fundraising and services teams. ➡ In your Innovation 2.0 test cycles with charities, have you been able to help them overcome the delays we all experience such as through internal resource, data selection, design sign-off etc? Yes and no.  Not completely.  On a current project for example we are 50% of the way to help solve these issues.  We have certainly sped up the process, so what would have typically taken 6 months, we have done in 6-8 weeks using this new approach. If you missed the webinar do have a read of the key takeaways here or follow the link to see to the webinar in full. https://lnkd.in/ep4mHfgQ

Last chance to sign up….. Just 2 more days until we launch ‘Innovation 2.0’  - a new era for charity innovation. On Thursday 8th, Ben Cohen (he/him/his), Nish Agarwal and Ryan Bromley host a webinar to introduce a new way to do innovation that overcomes the challenges many face in actually getting new ideas live in the market. We’re a little bit excited about this new approach and what we’re already seeing it achieve. Join us on Thursday to find out more. Sign up below. https://lnkd.in/ebUgUUmS

What is the doom loop of Innovation? Why is Innovation too slow? Why do too few ideas reach the market? Why do many ideas fail? The world has changed, but we’re still innovating the same way we did 10 years ago. We need a new approach. And we have one! Join Ben Cohen (he/him/his), Nish Agarwal and Ryan Bromley at our webinar next week where we're excited to launch, Innovation 2.0 - a delivery focused approach that finds solutions to the challenges above. Kevin Waudby, founder at Good Innovation, explains below why it's time to transform Innovation. And sign up to here to learn more on Thursday 8th August at 12pm https://lnkd.in/eRp8DzmC https://lnkd.in/eeikXPXi