LinkedIn and Taproot Team Up to Support Nonprofit Boards
At the Board Source Leadership Forum in Chicago last weekend, LinkedIn announced the launch of a new initiative to help solve one of the bigge…
PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 21
Meeting a pro bono hero Last week I met an amazing pro bono consultant. Not only has he already completed 8 projects with Taproot over the course of …
Most Common In-Kind and Pro Bono Resources
Prepare Your Team for Pro Bono
You just returned from a meeting with one of your largest corporate partners. In the meeting, you explored the possibility of your corporate partner …
PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 20
20 weeks of Pro Bono Adventures and yet I keep learning new things about pro bono every day. This week I discovered the competencies map . This tool …
PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 19
This week I learned about Taproot in numbers. As the graphic below shows, Taproot has awarded 2,097 Service Grant to nonprofits since its inception i…
Pro Bono Sino-USA Forum
Two years ago I was in China and helped develop a partnership between HP, Narada Foundation, BSR, Taproot and Huizeren, a leading capacity building o…
PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 17 and 18
During Taproot’s summer retreat in Chicago last week I had the chance to finally meet Roots from all the five metro areas that Taproot serves. …
PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 17 and 18
During Taproot’s summer retreat in Chicago last week I had the chance to finally meet Roots from all the five metro areas that Taproot serves. …
Guest Blog: Inappropriate Icebreakers
As a Taproot employee and pro bono junkie, I watch a lot of new groups come together: teams on pro bono projects, pro bono consultants at orientation…
Summer All-Root Retreat
Last week, our team met in Woodstock, IL for our semi-annual All-Root Retreat – three days of pro bono strategy and plotting. Roots (otherwise …
On Turnip Ties: What Being Playfully Professional is All About
10 minutes to 6 and I was late for the orientation I was giving. My bag was heavy with materials so it was difficult to maneuver through the herds of…
