{"id":4085,"date":"2014-09-04T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/givinglife.canadahelps.org\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2024-10-31T16:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:59:19","slug":"the-48-hour-digital-charity-makeover-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/giving-life\/community-happenings\/the-48-hour-digital-charity-makeover-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The 48 Hour Digital Charity Makeover Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the best things we get to do at CanadaHelps is meet up with our charity clients. This past week, we had an awesome opportunity to do just that on beautiful Wasan Island in Ontario\u2019s Muskoka region. With the support of the BMW and Breuninger Foundations, we teamed up with our friends at <\/span>Timeraiser Plus<\/a> and gave ourselves a challenge: to give one small charity a digital makeover, increasing their digital capacity by 50% in just 48 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Could we do it? With the help of some awesome volunteers \u2013 experts in marketing & communication, online fundraising, databases, internal systems, and more \u2013 and a beautiful setting large enough to accommodate a collaborative work project of this scale, we were pretty sure we could. But we needed the right group of hardworking, open-minded people who were looking to harness the power of technology so they could spend less time on administration and inefficient systems, and spend more time carrying out their charitable mission.<\/p>\n

The Challengers<\/b><\/h2>\n

In the early summer, we sent out an open call to small and medium-sized charities. More than 50 charities applied, but in the end, only one could be chosen. Connected in Motion<\/a> is a Toronto-based charity run by a small staff and a ton of dedicated volunteers. The only organization in Canada dedicated to supporting adults living with Type 1 Diabetes, they host outdoor adventure weekends for adults of all activity levels that empower people living with Type 1 Diabetes to safely incorporate healthy living, exercise and outdoor adventure into their lives. Their focus on building community through active living means that no one living with Type 1 Diabetes has to manage their illness on their own.<\/p>\n

The Connected in Motion team had tons of great content and strategy in place, but, like many small charities, were short on time to evaluate the technology they were using to figure out how they could be doing things more efficiently. That\u2019s where our amazing group of volunteers came in…<\/p>\n

What did we accomplish in 48 hours?<\/b><\/h2>\n