The Lightful team is delighted to invite you to our forthcoming webinar with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GlobalGiving to discuss nonprofit digital capacity building and how it is rapidly evolving during COVID-19.

The Zoom event will take place on Thursday, 2nd July at 8am PDT / 11am EST / 4pm BST and last approximately one hour.

Akruti Desai, Senior Programme Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will open the webinar. Akruti will share the Gates Foundation’s approach during the time of Covid, and why they are funding experts in the digital space.

She will be joined by Alix Guerrier, CEO at GlobalGiving and Lightful’s CEO & Co-Founder, Vinay Nair, who will share insights into what they are both learning from their digital capacity building programmes.

This interactive, dynamic webinar promises to provide valuable insights about how the nonprofit sector has responded to the pandemic and the importance of digital to build resilience.

The webinar will be moderated by Beth Kanter, master trainer, author and nonprofit expert, and there will be time at the end for questions from participants.

The event’s running order will be:

• Introductions by Beth Kanter
• What the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s approach is, and why
• What GlobalGiving has learned and is doing
• What Lightful has learned and is doing
• Moderated conversation with the panelists
• Audience Q&A

Location: Zoom. The dial in details will be sent to all registered attendees.

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FURTHER INFORMATION:

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Mark Suzman and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

GlobalGiving is the largest global crowdfunding community connecting nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country. GlobalGiving helps nonprofits from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds of places in between) access the tools, training, and support they need to be more effective and make our world a better place.

Beth Kanter has over 35 years’ experience working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training and capacity building for thousands of nonprofits across the world. Beth has co-authored the books The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Beth was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology and one of Business Week’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media.” She is a senior advisor to Lightful alongside several other organisations.

Lightful is a leading technology company for social good, believing those doing the greatest good deserve the best technology. Lightful’s digital products and services are designed for charities and nonprofits to simplify their work and amplify their impact. The Lightful BRIDGE programme equips nonprofits with the digital skills and capabilities to become more resilient organisations, and has been implemented in over 40 countries around the world.