Serving a Recession
Business Week just published their annual customer service rankings. The theme this year in the accompanying editorial is the role of service during …
Nonprofit Capacity to Use Pro Bono
There has been significant discussion in the national service field about the need to build the capacity of nonprofits to utilize pro bono services. …
Designer of the Year: Pro Bono
Two weeks ago the leadership team of Public Architecture won the prestigious Designer of the Year award from Contract Magazine, a publication in the …
Resolutions
Every year, the Taproot Foundation sees a big boost in volunteer applications in early January. We refer to it as the New Year’s Resolution Bum…
State of Nonprofit Environmental Leadership
We recently added a question to our online Service Grant application asking nonprofits to report if they have an environmental policy and, if so, to …
Goalkeeper Theory and Recessions
This past Sunday marked one of my favorite days of the year–the day the New York Times Magazine publishes the “Ideas of the Year” i…
Recession Innovation
When Obama was first elected last month the media and talking heads spoke a lot about how the President-elect was going to have to put his agenda on …
Bringing Back DC
I just completed a two-month tour of MBA programs across the country. The speaking engagements were sponsored by Deloitte and covered many of the top…
5 Ways Foundations Can Support Nonprofit Mergers
With the economy in the toilet, the topic of nonprofit mergers is on the rise in the foundation community. Here are five quick ideas for how foundati…
80:20 and the Nonprofit Sector
Corporations are often able to scale by identifying which solution will meet 80% of the market’s needs. They realize it is rarely doable to fin…
Pro Bono Strategic Consulting: The $1.5 Billion Opportunity
Nonprofit Sector Facing Shortfalls Pro Bono Consulting Could Provide $1.5 Billion in Services to More than 200,000 Nonprofits Nationwide. San Franci…
Pro Bono: Now more than Ever
The supply and demand for pro bono services is inversely correlated to the strength of the economy. With the fall of the market, we see a sharp incre…
