Service Grant Surgery and You
This holiday season, I’m thankful not just for chocolate, after-Christmas sales, and the 24 hour marathon of “A Christmas Story,” b…
Five New Year Resolutions You'll Want to Keep for 2011
As December comes to an end, the time has come to start making your New Year resolutions for 2011. It’s the opportunity to start anew, but our …
Meet James: Taproot's First-Ever Pro Bono Role Model of the Year
Taproot Foundation is proud to announce our first-ever Pro Bono Role Model of the Year! After reading through dozens of amazing and inspiring submiss…
Eight Models of Pro Bono: Marathon - Discovery Communications
Over the next few months, Director of Programming Carol Guttery will be contributing a series based on Making Pro Bono Work: 8 Proven Models for Comm…
A New CSR Framework, Please
The field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has evolved over the last 20 years to become increasingly strategic, but also increasingly fragmen…
Pro Bono Worldwide
One of the joys of being part of a pro bono movement is discovering the ever-expanding ripple effect of your work as it spreads in ways you never eve…
New Program Innovation Process
Whether in a commercial or nonprofit setting, you see more breakthrough innovation with new products or programs than with existing offerings. Once p…
Leaders Who Govern
New research from Pete York and the TCC Group shows that peer-to-peer executive director coaching and support is one of the most effective means of c…
Service Enterprise: One Year Later
The beginning of a movement It was a year ago last week that I posted a blog entry coining the term and concept of a Service Enterprise, a nonprofit …
POOF! Making your pro bono dreams come true with Taproot's online community
One day, Taproot pro bono consultant Sheila Mong thought to herself, “Wouldn’t it be great if I could see deliverables that other pro bon…
BONUS ROUND: Help Us Select the Pro Bono Role Model of the Year
We’ve received so many fantastic nominations for our Taproot Role Model of the Year contest that our judges are having a hard time choosing jus…
The XXX Foundation
Someone recently asked me how I would design a foundation based on my experience as a social entrepreneur, capacity builder, and grantee of over a hu…
