The Centre for Digital Innovation in Philanthropy and Fundraising (CDIPF) exists to foster partnerships amongst researchers, nonprofit organisations, philanthropists, and commercial businesses, that help develop digital innovation technologies for the benefit of the charity sector.
The CDIPF is a new collaboration between the School of Arts and Creative Technologies and the Office for Philanthropic Partnerships and Alumni (OPPA) at the University of York.
The centre brings together a community of researchers from across the University of York - the Departments of Sociology, English, Philosophy, History of Art, the School of Business and Society, as well as the Humanities Research Centre and the Borthwick Institute for Archives. Working in partnership with stakeholders is integral to our approach, these include the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, the UK’s membership body for professional fundraisers, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and representatives from the grant-making world including the Wolfson Foundation.
We aim to provide research-based insights to inform the design of AI-driven services and products by businesses to empower and support philanthropy and fundraising practices to be more effective, more transparent and more accessible. The centre focuses on nurturing and developing interdisciplinary research teams and collaborating with nonprofit organisations, philanthropists, and businesses in order to:
- Facilitate the adoption of AI-driven digital technologies across the philanthropy and nonprofit sector.
- Deliver skills to fundraisers and philanthropists based on the application of responsible and ethical guidelines in AI.
- Conduct practical and prototyping research with non-profit organisations.
- Advance our understanding of present and past practices and trends in philanthropic behaviour and fundraising activities to support fundraising capabilities and encourage philanthropy.
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