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September 18, 2015
A Student View: Growing a Global Pro Bono Movement
Carolin Graetsch, a master’s student in nonprofit management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law who recently completed her thesis on int…
September 14, 2015
Remembering 9/11 Through Pro Bono Service
The first 9/11 Skills Service Day encourages pro bono service as a way to give back and reflect. Here, see why it matters. September, when warm days …
September 3, 2015
Bring Your Challenge - Take Home A Solution
Last month, Taproot partnered with the Ford Foundation to host a Pro Bono Lab as part of its pilot Spectrum of Service offerings. These offerings pro…
August 13, 2015
Creating Mutual Benefits Partnerships
Brainstorming a way forward for nonprofit and corporate relationships in San Francisco Companies have a range of resources to offer the community, in…
July 22, 2015
Small Business ScopeAthon - New Audience, Same Results
In June 2015, Taproot Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust partnered together to deliver a ScopeAthon, a half-day workshop for small business o…
June 25, 2015
Volunteer Engagement 2.0 Author Spotlight: Alethea Hannemann, Taproot Foundation
This blog has been cross-posted from the VolunteerMatch blog. VolunteerMatch’s new book, Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing …
June 24, 2015
I Am My Brother's Keeper
This blog by Max Skolnik is reposted from the Huffington Post blog. I am my brother’s keeper. I’ve told this story before but it bears re…
June 12, 2015
New Kid on the Block
By Amy Klein, Executive Director of VolunteerConnect. I like to joke that my pro bono “aha” moment was when Taproot founder, Aaron Hurst, retweeted o…
June 10, 2015
6 Million Business Professionals Offer Their Skills Pro Bono, but Where's the Line of Nonprofit Executives Signing Up?
LinkedIn reports that there are 6 million professionals who say they want to use their business skills for social good, but only 50,000 pro bono enga…
June 2, 2015
Taproot's Morning at the White House | A Celebration Dedicated to Pro Bono Service
Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald, VP, External Affairs, describes her experience representing Taproot at the White House. Walking into the White House is m…
April 16, 2015
How to Manage Virtual Pro Bono
Technology has completely changed the way that professionals get work done. The savvy pro bono program managers among us have been able to leverage t…
April 13, 2015
HP Project Managers Help Nonprofits with IT Challenges
On January 19, 2015, 80 teams of nonprofits and volunteer Project Managers sat down in a room to tackle the nonprofits’s most pressing organiza…
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