Remote and hybrid team effectiveness for nonprofits
Your remote or hybrid team struggles to collaborate — communication is fragmented, culture feels thin, and people are less productive than they should be.
What you'll achieve
A high-functioning distributed team with shared norms, the right tools, and the routines needed to collaborate effectively across locations.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Assess your current remote working practices, identify friction points, and design a practical playbook covering tools, communication norms, and team rhythms.
Key deliverables
- Remote team audit, remote working playbook, digital tools review, team norms charter, manager guide for distributed teams.
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The Charity Digital Code of Practice 2025
A voluntary code of good practice that helps UK charities benchmark digital progress and make digital decisions. It sets out 8 principles: leadership, user led, culture, strategy, data, skills, risk and ethics, and adaptability. Separate editions exist for charities with income above and below £1 million. The 2025 update adds a data principle, AI guidance across all principles, tips on buying digital tools, and stronger cyber security and accessibility sections.
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Responsible Data Handbook
A handbook on the ethics and risks of collecting and using data about people in international development work. It follows the project lifecycle: designing a project, managing data, getting, understanding and sharing data, and closing a project. Chapters can be read alone or in sequence. A team of 12 practitioners wrote it in a 3-day book sprint. It is free under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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