Reduced from 6 months to just weeks! A UK charity’s transparent, streamlined process At Marie Curie, a large charity in the UK that supports people at the end of their lives, Gemma Rawlins leads the Fundraising Innovation Team. The charity attracts £175 million in giving each year in order to provide incredible care for patients and their families. At the 2025 Agile in Nonprofits…
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Agile mixtape: Lessons in trust, creativity & neuroinclusivity
Written by: Christa CarrollWhether you experienced the 80s firsthand or not, everyone can appreciate a fun musical theme! With that in mind, Maura Pavalow, Brittany Greer, and Saashya Rodrigo, of the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), have likened the Agile implementation at NCLD to an 80s mixtape! They made an insightful (and, dare we say, creative) presentation about this topic to a curious nonprofit audience at…
Reduced from 6 months to just weeks! A UK charity’s transparent, streamlined process
Written by: Christa CarrollAt Marie Curie, a large charity in the UK that supports people at the end of their lives, Gemma Rawlins leads the Fundraising Innovation Team. The charity attracts £175 million in giving each year in order to provide incredible care for patients and their families. At the 2025 Agile in Nonprofits (AiN) Summit, Gemma shared this team’s Agile story in her presentation titled “Using…
Asynchronous Sprints in a part-time, fully remote team
Written by: Christa CarrollWhen you envision how Scrum works and you think of adopting Agile values, do you typically default to a mental picture of a team collaborating and talking to one another in real time, while in the same room? Most people do. Take heart if your workplace and workflows do not match that traditional sort of setting! Scrum will absolutely work for your team, 100%!…
Agile successes at Amnesty UK that will intrigue you
Written by: Christa CarrollAt the 2025 Agile in Nonprofits Summit, Carmen Barlow, founder of the Charity Change Collective, shared her compelling story about applying Agile methodologies to the workflows of the Communications & Digital Teams at Amnesty UK. This blog about her presentation, which is titled “From Firefighting to Forward Momentum: Agile Transformation at Amnesty UK,” introduces her insights and recommendations to nonprofits considering Agile for your own…