“One more fail before pick up time!” Anne Race on democratising innovation and why creating change is for everyone

I was delighted to attend the Fundraising Innovation Conference today, hosted by Fundraising Everywhere, which is proving to be excellent! Here are my notes from the very first presentation, by Anne Race of Flying Cars on 'Democratising innovation: why creating change is for everyone.' But there's loads more besides, so this is just a taster and you can watch it back too on the Fundraising Everywhere platform, so it's not too late to sign up! Democratising innovation: why creating change is for everyone, with Anne Race, of Flying Cars I work in the charity sector, in innovation, coming up with new ideas – but I actually deal in failure. That is what I do, over and over again. Fail as quickly as possible. Try to learn what doesn’t work so you can figure out what does work. But the failure is controlled, quick and purposeful – to make the idea better and create change in the sector. My first experience in the sector from 2008, landed in Australia from Japan. I wanted to raise money but can’t run marathons. But I do have a talent to get into embarrassing situations! We gave up everything, started in Brisbane wearing a bin bag, worked from job to job across Australia, raising money for charity. Weird, wonderful and awful 9 month experience. People told us it would be impossible and that we didn’t understand. But we had thought it through. The worst thing that could happen is that I would be embarrassed and it wouldn’t work. The worst thing was a