At Avanade, our purpose is to make a genuine human impact. Through our Tech for Social Good partnership with Microsoft, we are committed to helping non-profit organisations and the social sector fulfil their missions with digital transformation.
We partnered with Microsoft and NetHope on the IDEA program (formerly Dream, Design, Deliver) to help nonprofits choose the right innovation pathways and digital technologies to solve challenges and engage more effectively with their stakeholders. Avanade brings 20+ years of experience helping organisations across industries and sectors to help non-profits unlock digital innovation solutions with current and emerging Microsoft digital technologies that make a human impact.
We are very proud to have demonstrated our proven innovation accelerator approach for the non-profit sector has been able to help organisations like British Red Cross, Pro Mujer, and Trócaire.
“Avanade has great people in advisory and consulting and design thinking – and can bring in some great people from Accenture as well – so this is a well-rounded team.”
The Avanade difference: IDEA to action and value
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Our proven workshop approach for non-profits helps you to empathise, define, ideate, prototype, and test.
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Our global, cross-industry experience informs your practical technology solution and change management.
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A 18-time winner of Microsoft GSI Partner of the Year, our expertise helps you pilot, deploy, and iterate your solution.
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Understand the human impact of your solution and uncover new ways to use technology to achieve your mission.
Simplifying the asylum process with the British Red Cross
The Dream: How might we help Refugees to get the relevant support that they need within a timely manner and how might we improve the effectiveness of casework processes and derive greater insights?
Applying a tailored design thinking approach for non-profits, a diverse group of British Red Cross stakeholders from the C-suite to the field partnered to surface fresh digital solutions ideas to smooth the asylum seeker process in the UK. Leveraging the global knowledge and visionary innovation expertise of Avanade, these solutions have the capacity to be consolidated into a single platform that will give greater dignity to asylum seekers and refugees and enable them to thrive in their communities.
“Refugees are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the same hopes and ambitions as us—except that a twist of fate has bound their lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.”
Khaled Hosseini
British Red Cross re-imagines challenges facing those seeking sanctuary
This post focuses on the second networking group of NetHope members participating in IDEA (Imagine, Design, Execute, Assess), a broad umbrella for digital transformation processes offered to NetHope members through The Center for the Digital Nonprofit.
British Red Cross Dream Book
Envisioning a future of refugee support and restoring family link services.
Empowering low-income women in Latin America through Healthcare with Pro Mujer
Through the IDEA journey with Avanade, Pro Mujer is starting to rapidly advance a new digital line of business in healthcare to lift the barriers to empowerment for low-income women in Latin America.
Persona-mapping and insights from Avanade on digital innovation possibilities informed Pro Mujer’s process of rapid idea generation. Solution ideas blending physical and digital worlds included:
- A health-oriented gaming platform with cryptocurrency rewards to inform women about their healthcare options.
- An omnichannel advisory platform enabling 24×7 access to community health workers.
- An ATM-like telepharmacy and telemedicine platform.
“It is critical to have our alliance with Avanade to get the insightful information from different industries and sectors to solve problems from a different perspective.”
The Health Dream (Elsueño de salud)
This post focuses on the second networking group of NetHope members participating in IDEA (Imagine, Design, Execute, Assess), a broad umbrella for digital transformation processes offered to NetHope members through The Center for the Digital Nonprofit.
Unifying the knowledge of Trócaire and its partners
Together with local partners, Trócaire has a mission to support the most vulnerable people in the developing world, while also raising awareness of injustice and global poverty in Ireland.
Trócaire has a wealth of knowledge about food and resource rights, women’s empowerment, and humanitarian response, but it is challenged to effectively share knowledge across more than 20 developing countries and Ireland.
Working with Avanade helped Trócaire’s leadership team, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to envision digital innovations to improve its knowledge management processes. Through the engagement, Trócaire has been able to explore a number of solutions including:
- A needs portal for program participants
- Data-driven experiences for donors
- A people-centric marketplace
- Crowdsourced knowledge and content experiences
Knowledge for positive change
This post focuses on the second networking group of NetHope members participating in IDEA (Imagine, Design, Execute, Assess), a broad umbrella for digital transformation processes offered to NetHope members through The Center for the Digital Nonprofit.