Achieving Breakthrough Performance
The Stanford Social Innovation Review just published a study on the keys to managing breakthrough performance for a nonprofit. It was done by several…
Single-Era Conjecture
Randall Stross made the conjecture yesterday in the New York Times that there is an “invisible law that makes it impossible for a company in th…
Nation Divided
I recently finished Richard Florida’s new book – “Who’s Your City? “. He describes demographic trends that are concentr…
Breakthrough Research on Pro Bono Business Case
On Monday, Deloitte released their study on the potential of Pro Bono as a corporate professional development tool. The phone survey was of Fortune 5…
Pro bono makes you happy
We always wondered why all our volunteers have smiles on their faces all the time. Now we know. A recent study shows that people who do pro bono actu…
A Gem: Chicago's Civic Consulting Alliance
The more I understand pro bono services and their potential for social impact, the more I fall in love with Chicago’s Civic Consulting Alliance…
Greening our Operations
While our environmental impact is not part of our mission, as responsible professionals we do need to look at the impact of our operations on the env…
Professionalizing Pro Bono Consulting
Like early corporate philanthropy, pro bono services offered by the leading consulting firms often appear to be more opportunistic than strategic. Th…
Pro Bono Middle Ground
What is the ideal volunteer opportunity for those that don’t have the skills to do most traditional pro bono work (marketing, IT, HR, legal, et…
Greater Washington DC Kick-Off Event
It is now official: With the support of The Case Foundation, Meyer Foundation, and CityBridge Foundation, Taproot Foundation has kicked-off our Servi…
Professional Footprint
There are daily articles about carbon footprints and environmental footprints. Companies and nonprofits are using the concept to market their goods a…
CECP Expands Pro Bono Measurement
At the Pro Bono Summit last week, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) announced that it is investing in the measurement of pro bo…
