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Mae’r blog yma yn ail flog o ddau yn dilyn cyfres o weithdai mesur effaith a gynhaliwyd ar gyfer y rhai a dderbyniodd grant Ymateb Digidol COVID-19 Catalyst a Chronfa Gymunedol y Loteri Genedlaethol. Roedd gweithdy a blog cyntaf Bobi Robson yn agor ein meddwl am ‘pam’ y dylem fesur effaith. Mae’r blog yma yn […]

‘Mae mesur effaith yn codi ofn ar lawer ar draws y sector elusennol.’ Dyma linell gyntaf erthygl yn y Guardian yn 2014, ‘How to measure your impact as a small charity‘. Pam felly, saith mlynedd yn ddiweddarach, bod mesur ein cynnydd a’n heffaith yn parhau i godi ofn? Efallai mai’r rheswm yw, am lawer rhy […]

Pan oeddwn yn tyfu i fyny yng Ngorllewin Iwerddon yn y 1970au, sefydlwyd cwmni newydd o’r enw Digital Equipment Corporation. Cafodd ei adnabod yn lleol fel ‘Digital’ ac roedd 600 o bobl yn gweithio yno pan agorodd.    Erbyn heddiw, dros y byd, mae bron pawb dwi’n eu ‘nabod yn gweithio yn y maes digidol mewn […]

Mae diogelwch seicolegol yn gwella perfformiad tîm. Mae’n werthfawr iawn i dimau sydd yn cydweithio ar brosiectau digidol.  Mae’r adnodd yma ar gyfer:  Mae’n gosod allan:   Beth yw diogelwch seicolegol?  Diffiniad  Amy Edmondson fathodd y term diogelwch seicolegol. Mae hi’n ei ddiffinio fel ‘cred bod neb am gael eu cosbi neu eu cywilyddio am godi […]

Bydd llawer ohonom yn gyfarwydd â’r bwlch sgiliau digidol ar fyrddau elusennau. Mae’n her gyffredin. Fel y mae diffyg amrywiaeth, ac  fel y mae ymchwil defnyddwyr gyda chymunedau amrywiol wrth gynllunio gwasanaethau digidol hefyd. 1. Sgiliau digidol ar lefel bwrdd: y broblem Mae Adroddiad Sgiliau Digidol Elusennol 2022 yn mesur y broblem. Mae sgiliau digidol […]

It is a truth widely acknowledged that the relationship between a charity and its agency is often pretty dysfunctional. We keep hearing that ‘in the charity sector, the agency model is broken’. At Catalyst, we launched a project called Dovetail to research what the problem is, and we’ve started to develop some solutions. Here’s what […]

Read Part 1. If charity digital services are to keep growing, then relationships between charities and digital agencies need to grow too.  Last year we spent a lot of time with charities and digital agencies learning more about what makes a great partnership. We also explored the barriers and how people were overcoming them. As […]

It’s been going on a while now. Ever since Tech for Good became a thing. Charities and digital agencies have been creating digital services for good. They’ve had some amazing successes. But just like it is for many new couples, relating to one another has, at times, been tricky. Despite best intentions there have been […]

It’s been going on a while now. Ever since Tech for Good became a thing. Charities and digital agencies have been getting into bed together and building products and services for good. They’ve had some amazing successes. Not every coupling ends happily… But just like it is for many new couples, relating to one another […]

The Catalyst Discovery programme: 103 charities, simultaneously guided by 11 agencies through the early stages of a digital project.  It sounds quite experimental. It was. We’ve never taken so many charities through such an intense process. Nor have we done it so quickly (four weeks). There were positives and negatives. Today we’re sharing the positives. […]

We’ve talked about how to keep your team working and connected. And we’re writing a guide to delivering services digitally. But, in this time of Covid, when you’ve less face-to-face time with your beneficiaries, how do you find out what they need from your organisation? It turns out there’s several ways of doing this by […]

This is a follow up to Website Crit #2: Reach Volunteering Website. It critiques the library part of their website. We’ve made our experts’ feedback open so you and others can learn from it. Thanks to Reach Volunteering for putting their library forward for this critique. What is Reach Volunteering’s volunteer project library?  Reach Volunteering […]