Building the Right Pro Bono Initiative for Your Company: How CEB Found the Right Approach to Making Social Impact
By Kim Gillman, Senior Associate Consultant, Advisory Services, Taproot Foundation CEB knew they could do more. The leading member-based advisory com…
Understanding the Spectrum of Skills-Based Volunteering
By Lindsay Firestone, Director of Advisory Services, Taproot Foundation This is an installment of Taproot’s Back to Basics series, focusing on …
Pro Bono + Grant-Making = Philanthropy 2.0?
By Alexandra McArthur, Associate Consultant, Advisory Services, Taproot Foundation The anticipation was mounting as American Express President, Ed Gi…
Pro Bono Service: The New Normal
One of the great things about being in one field for so long is that from time to time you have the chance to witness the arc of progress. An idea be…
Skim Milk Marriages No More!
By Matt O’Grady, Guest Writer, Root The Supreme Court just ruled that having second-class citizens is finally passed. Its rulings in support of…
Meet April: A Pro Bono Leader By Design
April Kobeda joined the Taproot pro bono consultant team in 2005 because she wanted to help nonprofit organizations accomplish their goals, to feel p…
Me? Do What I Say?
Practice what you preach I don’t have children, but a few weeks ago I had what I suspect was a parental moment. That moment when you realize th…
Meet Ruth: A Taproot Fellow and Top-Notch Project Manager
Ruth Van Hecke is a dedicated Allstate employee, who was granted six moths to work as a Pro Bono Fellow at Taproot. She jumped right in, used her pro…
Building the pro bono movement through Billion + Change
The most recent Billion + Change event, hosted by Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) on May 22 in San Francisco, was a raging success for …
It's Time to Staff! Here Are Some Nonprofits That Need YOU.
Summer is just around the corner and while the days are heating up, so are our Taproot Foundation Service Grants. Over the next few weeks, new projec…
Leveraging HR to strengthen nonprofit boards and drive impact
By Kristin Teti, Program & Development Manager, Taproot Foundation – Los Angeles The number-one resource for a great social sector organiza…
Start Small, but Think Big: Citi Scales the Skills Marathon Model from Pilot to Global Initiative
By Kim Gillman, Senior Associate Consultant, Advisory Services, Taproot Foundation Thinking outside the box Citi is revolutionizing the way that corp…
