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An Ad Agency's Point of View on Pro Bono

October 23, 2015

An Ad Agency's Point of View on Pro Bono

Service Area: Marketing

When this ad agency came together to design creative advertising pro bono for Taproot, they left feeling creative, inspired, and excited by the impac…

Pro Bono Week Spurs New Community Service Ideas

October 16, 2015

Pro Bono Week Spurs New Community Service Ideas

Nonprofit Management Pro Bono Week Volunteer Management

Originally published on Causecast’s blog Innovative ways to build new communities This time in October is when volunteer leaders honor the powe…

Q&A With a Corporate Pro Bono Consultant

October 6, 2015

Q&A With a Corporate Pro Bono Consultant

Corporate Social Responsibility Employee Engagement

Blue Shield of California recently piloted a pro bono program with the Taproot Foundation. Over the summer, Blue Shield employees engaged in team-bas…

A Student View: Growing a Global Pro Bono Movement

September 18, 2015

A Student View: Growing a Global Pro Bono Movement

Global

Carolin Graetsch, a master’s student in nonprofit management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law who recently completed her thesis on int…

Remembering 9/11 Through Pro Bono Service

September 14, 2015

Remembering 9/11 Through Pro Bono Service

Service Area: Marketing Social Impact Volunteer Consulting

The first 9/11 Skills Service Day encourages pro bono service as a way to give back and reflect. Here, see why it matters. September, when warm days …

Bring Your Challenge - Take Home A Solution

September 3, 2015

Bring Your Challenge - Take Home A Solution

Programs Volunteer Consulting

Last month, Taproot partnered with the Ford Foundation to host a Pro Bono Lab as part of its pilot Spectrum of Service offerings. These offerings pro…

Creating Mutual Benefits Partnerships

August 13, 2015

Creating Mutual Benefits Partnerships

Social Impact

Brainstorming a way forward for nonprofit and corporate relationships in San Francisco Companies have a range of resources to offer the community, in…

Small Business ScopeAthon - New Audience, Same Results

July 22, 2015

Small Business ScopeAthon - New Audience, Same Results

Programs Social Impact Volunteer Consulting

In June 2015, Taproot Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust partnered together to deliver a ScopeAthon, a half-day workshop for small business o…

Volunteer Engagement 2.0 Author Spotlight: Alethea Hannemann, Taproot Foundation

June 25, 2015

Volunteer Engagement 2.0 Author Spotlight: Alethea Hannemann, Taproot Foundation

Nonprofit Management Volunteer Management

This blog has been cross-posted from the VolunteerMatch blog. VolunteerMatch’s new book, Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing …

I Am My Brother's Keeper

June 24, 2015

I Am My Brother's Keeper

Social Impact Volunteer Consulting

This blog by Max Skolnik is reposted from the Huffington Post blog. I am my brother’s keeper. I’ve told this story before but it bears re…

New Kid on the Block

June 12, 2015

New Kid on the Block

Social Impact

By Amy Klein, Executive Director of VolunteerConnect. I like to joke that my pro bono “aha” moment was when Taproot founder, Aaron Hurst, retweeted o…

6 Million Business Professionals Offer Their Skills Pro Bono, but Where's the Line of Nonprofit Executives Signing Up?

June 10, 2015

6 Million Business Professionals Offer Their Skills Pro Bono, but Where's the Line of Nonprofit Executives Signing Up?

Nonprofit Management

LinkedIn reports that there are 6 million professionals who say they want to use their business skills for social good, but only 50,000 pro bono enga…

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