Survey for Charities & Nonprofits
The Tech for Good Alliance is running a short survey to understand what makes tech support from companies genuinely useful for charities and nonprofits, and where the common blockers are. Your input will help shape a report and make sure the findings reflect real charity experience with corporate volunteers. It should only take a few minutes, and it will help set the benchmark for better, more effective tech volunteering and support.
If your charity was given £10,000 worth of expert tech consultation tomorrow, how confident are you that you’d be able to utilise it well?
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Not at all confident
Slightly confident
Reasonably confident
Very confident
Do you think technology can help solve some of your operational challenges?
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Yes
No
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What are your top barriers to using tech to solve operational challenges? Select all that apply
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Not enough time to think about it
Don’t know where to start
No money to spend on it
Lack of experience in the team
Concern about change
No buy-in from the board of trustees
Competing priorities
Other
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Why not? Select all that apply
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Technology puts a barrier between us and our service users
My charity is not big enough
Technology is too expensive for us
We wouldn’t know how to use it
Other
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Has your charity ever utilised corporate pro bono skilled tech volunteers?
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Yes
No
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Were these volunteers helpful?
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Very helpful
Fairly helpful
A little bit helpful
No, they were not helpful
What impact did the work of these skilled volunteers create? Select all that apply
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Helped us serve more beneficiaries
Helped us expand our reach
Improved our funding opportunities
Expanded our service offerings
Saved us time
Increased our capabilities and confidence
Helped us avoid / reduce costs
No impact
Other
Did you experience any challenges while working with skilled volunteers? Select all that apply
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None—the experience was seamless and high-impact
We could not offer the project enough time to make it successful
The tech solutions built were too complex for our staff to maintain afterwards
We had project management issues (e.g. work was paused due to volunteers' commercial priorities)
There were mismatched expectations for the project
We had data sharing and privacy issues
Other
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What has stopped you from engaging with skilled tech volunteering initiatives? Select all that apply
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Don't know where to find them
Don’t have the time
Don't know how to scope a tech project
Worried about hidden costs/time drains
Prefer financial donations over pro bono labour
Other
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Please rate the following statements based on how much you agree or disagree with them. 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = slightly disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = slightly agree, 5 = strongly agree.
"Without proper digital tools or tech support, our charity loses time that could be spent directly helping our service users."
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Strongly disagree
1
2
3
4
Strongly agree
5
1 is Strongly disagree, 5 is Strongly agree
"We would happily accept more free corporate tech help, but we don’t know how to manage it."
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Strongly disagree
1
2
3
4
Strongly agree
5
1 is Strongly disagree, 5 is Strongly agree
"We feel overwhelmed by the push for our sector to adopt technology, and don't know how to safely adopt it for our charity."
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Strongly disagree
1
2
3
4
Strongly agree
5
1 is Strongly disagree, 5 is Strongly agree
Optional: Can you share a brief anecdote of a time a tech volunteer transformed your ability to deliver your mission?
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What size is your charity/nonprofit?
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Micro: Less than £10,000
Small: £10,000 to £100,000
Medium: £100,000 to £1 million
Large: £1 million to £10 million
Major: £10 million to £100 million
Super-major: More than £100 million
If you're happy for us to contact you to speak in further detail about your experience with corporate volunteers, please add your email address here.
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If you'd like to be sent a copy of the report when it goes live, please add your email address here.
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