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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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Fair funding & procurement

, Running costs crisis Contact Latest news & opinion The latest Fair Funding & procurement news and blogs,Fairer Funding principles align with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding – developed through significant research

https://scvo.scot/policy/fair-funding-procurement

See what your charity can learn from these digital champions

OPINION 15 August 2016 Guest post
Management
Rebecca Curtis-Moss, in her role as a digital communications trainer, offers up her favourite examples of charities doing a good job of using digital technology

https://tfn.scot/opinion/the-charities-doing-great-digital-work-we-could-all-learn-from

SCVO response to the inquiry into Public Administration – Effective Scottish Government decision-making (Finance & Public Administration Committee)

Rachel Le Noan
16 February 2023
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All reports can be found on SCVO’s website for more information: Scottish Government funding of voluntary,Supporting collaboration between the third and public sectors: evidence review: The research review conducted,As pointed out in the Supporting Collaboration evidence review: ‘The research suggests that inadequate,As Sheghley Ogilvie from SCVO explained in a blog post last year: ‘I’ve often heard the Programme for,- a platform where organisations openly publish grants data- should also be implemented.

https://scvo.scot/p/57213/2023/02/16/scvo-response-to-the-inquiry-into-public-administration-effective-scottish-government-decision-making

Scottish anti-abortion group denies links to religious extremists

NEWS 25 May 2022 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Questions have been asked about links between Compassion Scotland and American hate groups.

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-anti-abortion-group-denies-links-to-religious-extremists

10 no-cost, high impact digital changes you can make today

John Fitzgerald
2 March 2021
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Get onto a cloud-based platform like Microsoft Office 365 or Google’s G Suite. ,Do some user research. Digital services are only useful when they meet user needs.,Skipping user research means you risk spending time and money building the wrong thing.,core content and repackage it in bitesized chunks that meet your user’s needs (that’s how I wrote this blog,Lots of organisations spend time accumulating insights, then hide them in a PDF on their website.

https://scvo.scot/p/42583/2021/03/02/10-no-cost-high-impact-digital-changes-you-can-make-today

Zoom calling and privacy

Alison Stone
8 April 2020
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Privacy advocates and security researchers have pointed out that Zoom’s definition of ‘end-to-end' is,This is a similar level of security to what you get when you use https:// to browse a website securely,dedicating the “resources needed to better identify, address and fix issues proactively” - in a recent blog,Furthermore, they are enhancing their bug bounty programme – Ideal for those security researchers who,This article gives a quick overview of some common platforms. 

https://scvo.scot/p/37303/2020/04/08/zoom-calling-and-privacy

How to become a data-driven charity

Siobhan Mercer
25 June 2020
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it; but not a big enough problem that everyone cares• Make a startGive yourself 30 days to do some research,You likely don’t need a shiny new expensive platform.• Keep goingOnce you've solved one issue, find another,to display your data like the Citizens Advice live dashboard of searches by general public on their website,others - there are great Data Lab case studies on the impact of harnessing data and Citizens Advice's blog,This blog shows a student placement can have a huge impact on how your charity uses it’s data.Data Lab

https://scvo.scot/p/39244/2020/06/25/become-a-data-driven-charity

New world, same rules: safeguarding and privacy

John Fitzgerald
2 April 2020
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SCVO digital are helping charities think about how they look after privacy and confidentiality as they

https://scvo.scot/p/37150/2020/04/02/new-world-same-rules-safeguarding-and-privacy

Holyrood 2021: what the voluntary sector wants

NEWS 4 May 2021 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#NeverMoreNeeded
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TFN's guide to charity election manifestos

https://tfn.scot/news/holyrood-2021-what-the-voluntary-sector-wants

Charity sector data strategy and innovation with Elasticsearch

Calum MacÙisdean
5 June 2019
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When I started at SCVO three years ago, we maintained a wide portfolio of websites developed in different,Additionally, the core of our new technology platform was to use Elasticsearch as a data store, not only,This will allow the main SCVO website to search for content across all our other websites, and for Goodmoves,search preferences, and policy workers/officials finding out more about the sector and sharing our research,This blog post was also published as a guest blog with Elastic.

https://scvo.scot/p/31612/2019/06/05/charity-sector-data-strategy-and-innovation-with-elasticsearch