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April 6, 2011

HuffPo: Can Pro Bono Resources Help Us Prepare for the Next Disaster?

Social Impact

Pro bono as a disaster preparedness tool Every time a global disaster strikes, volunteer organizations and fundraising machines kick into high gear. …

Top Three Likes from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference

April 4, 2011

Top Three Likes from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Service Area: Technology Volunteer Consulting

Being as obsessed as we are with positively changing the world, my company has gone under an entire rebranding in which we intend to focus on project…

HuffPo: Three Keys to Revitalizing the Service Movement in America

March 31, 2011

HuffPo: Three Keys to Revitalizing the Service Movement in America

Social Impact

  The start of a movement In 1963, President John F. Kennedy called the top attorneys from across the country to the White House. At the time, S…

Answering the Tough Questions: A Marketer's Perspective on Nonprofit Board Service

March 30, 2011

Answering the Tough Questions: A Marketer's Perspective on Nonprofit Board Service

Nonprofit Management Volunteer Consulting

Tammy Brown is a pro bono consultant with the Taproot Foundation and a board member of LA Commons, a non-profit that develops artistic and cultural p…

Edelman recognized for pro bono PR campaign

March 28, 2011

Edelman recognized for pro bono PR campaign

Service Area: Marketing Volunteer Consulting

The first campaign featured was one done by Edelman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to help them preserve the sites of the Nazi concentration c…

Change Observer: Why We're All Designers

March 25, 2011

Change Observer: Why We're All Designers

Nonprofit Management Service Area: Strategy

Who needs design? According to our Vice President of Service Innovation Laura Weiss, we could all benefit from design thinking, but especially in the…

You have no idea what this blog is about...curious?

March 23, 2011

You have no idea what this blog is about...curious?

Programs Volunteer Consulting

A study in blind trust by The Do Good Bus GOOD, the media company for people who give a damn, just wrote a piece about The Do Good Bus in Los Angeles…

Wanna Chat?

March 21, 2011

Wanna Chat?

Leadership Social Impact

Calling all social entrepreneurs! Tired of being a serial startup and ready to be known as a serious player in the field? There’s no golden tic…

What China Can Learn from Taproot

March 21, 2011

What China Can Learn from Taproot

Global Social Impact Volunteer Consulting

Pro bono in China is being implemented by the Beijing Huizeren Volunteering Development Center. Since Feb. 28, a team of Chinese philanthropic leader…

At Our Best

March 21, 2011

At Our Best

Service Area: Marketing Volunteer Consulting

Why did AIGA set the standard for design firms to do 5% of their work pro bono when significantly better-compensated law firms and management consult…

A Moment of Your Time

March 17, 2011

A Moment of Your Time

Social Impact Volunteer Consulting

May we have a moment of your time? 1% of your time to be exact. Do you remember why you decided to become a designer? Doctors save lives. Designers _…

HuffPo: What IDEO.org Can Learn From Bridgespan

March 11, 2011

HuffPo: What IDEO.org Can Learn From Bridgespan

Social Impact

This week, IDEO announced they will be spinning out IDEO.org as a standalone nonprofit organization this fall under the leadership of Joceyln Wyatt a…

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