Nonprofits Slow to "Green"
For over a year now, Taproot Foundation has been asking its Service Grant applicants whether or not they have a written Environmental Policy, with on…
Kara Hartnett Hurst- Policy for a Sustainable World
Corporate social responsibility plays an important role in the pro bono movement. To discuss the field of CSR and pro bono, here’s an interview…
Contrarian Thinking
Innovation is a very large ten-letter word It usually conjures images of vast sums of money invested over lengthy periods of time resulting in signif…
Boards that Encourage Innovation
With an upcoming Taproot board meeting, the recent release of our Board Recruitment Service Grant, and our participation in the San Francisco board m…
Pro Bono in Professional Schools
Introducing an upcoming leader in the pro bono movement: Universities. There are many pro bono programs at Professional Schools across the country, a…
A (Board) Match Made in Heaven
This evening, the Volunteer Center Serving San Francisco and San Mateo Counties presented their annual Board Match Event at the Moscone Center in San…
Kunal Modi- CATALYST for Innovative Education
These days there are so many incredible models for delivering pro bono service. Over the coming months I would like to spotlight some of the people a…
The 2010 Pro Bono Resolution
(Click to See Our New Youtube Channel!) It’s that time of year again when many of us reflect on the past year of our lives, look ahead at the p…
Design Thinking
Design thinking has become one of the hot topics in the consulting world and is now making its way into the nonprofit sector. The most recent edition…
Corporate and City Service Enterprises
Bobbi Silten, the Chief Foundation Officer at Gap, Inc. made an interesting observation about the segmentation posted in this blog last week. It is n…
The Service Enterprise
In an Op-Ed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy earlier this year, I outlined the challenge we face as a nonprofit sector in absorbing the influx of vol…
FD Sets Gold Standard for PR
We recently received a service grant from FD. FD is a global communications consultancy where one of our board members is a senior managing director.…
