Make It Matter Challenge Reflections: Bona Fide Consulting Corps
After Taproot’s MAKE IT MATTER Challenge, we asked each of our four finalists to reflect on their experience participating in the challenge. Be…
Meet David: Doing Good Is Just a Way of Life for this Photographer
David Moss started work as a Taproot pro bono consultant in 2012, and since then, he’s worked on four Taproot projects as a photographer. But h…
Lessons from the Field: Leading a Website Renewal Team
Being the Account Director on a Taproot website development team was quite an adventure. I had been on four previous Taproot Foundation projects and …
Pro Bono for Small Businesses
Taproot Foundation and Groupon partnered together to explore the possibility of bringing pro bono talent to small businesses on May 8, 2014. In a thr…
YMCA's BETAgirls Gets a Taste of the MasterCard Mojo
Early in the morning on March 24, I was met with a calendar alert that read “MasterCard Pro Bono Challenge.” While I was excited about wh…
Confessions of a Pro Bono Copywriter
Full disclosure: I’m a professional TV writer who gets paid to encourage viewers to stick around, to stay right where they are, to keep watchin…
A Thank You to Pro Bono Consultants During National Volunteer Week
Visiting the Taproot Foundation website? It’s hard to miss the really big blue number on the top-right side of the homepage. 127 million dollar…
SWISH! Pro Bono MADNESS (in March) was a HUGE success!
The San Francisco Bay Area office hosted a fast-paced, fun-filled all day scoping event last weekend. Thirty-five active pro bono consultants, who ha…
WordPress Developers: Leap into the Pro Bono World!
Pro bono. It is a phrase that can evoke strong emotions. Some recoil in horror at the thought for doing something without pay. Some have nightmares o…
Warm up with Taproot's New Nonprofit Grantees
What a winter it’s been. Polar vortex after polar vortex. Mountains of snow. Sheets of ice. (No comments from you, California.) But now, weR…
Google Cracks the Consulting Code
This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn. Sometimes to solve a problem we need a team of five McKinsey consultants, onsite and working with the fu…
With the New Year, New Opportunities for Giving Back
As we start to wind down 2013, there’s no better time to start thinking about giving back to make a difference in the new year. But before we d…
