Mar 26th, 2020 Advisory Services
WEBINAR: Supporting the Social Sector through Virtual Pro Bono Programming
Wednesday, April 1 1 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. CT / 10 a.m. PT We’re facing unprecedented challenges globally as we confront the coronavirus, and we’re leaning on the social sector to continue providing services that our communities need. Even though employee engagement programming at so many companies is uncertain, we’re hearing from so many of you that that you...
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Mar 25th, 2020 blog, Marketing, Strategy, Technology
Pro Bono Project Scopes Just Got Easier on Taproot Plus
If you’ve ever tried to search the internet for a solution to a problem, you know that the first challenge is often the toughest: how do you even explain what it is that you need? We’ve seen this kind of challenge again and again. A wonderful nonprofit has a tech, HR, or marketing issue in mind, and they know a...
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Mar 24th, 2020 Philanthropy, Social Impact, Volunteer Consulting
How You Can Support Nonprofits Responding to COVID-19
Nonprofits around the world are heroically responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, working day and night to provide our communities with food, shelter, healthcare, education, and other much needed forms of kindness and security. As these organizations manage a new, huge demand for their services, they also face diminishing resources due to scrapped programs, loss of volunteer events, and cancelled fundraisers....
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Mar 18th, 2020 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Impact
The Top 5 Ways Your Company Can Help Nonprofits Right Now Through Pro Bono
Companies are asking us what nonprofits need right now and how pro bono can help. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most pervasive urgent organizational needs nonprofits are confronting across the sector due to the COVID-19 crisis, and real-life examples of the types of pro bono support that can make a real difference. First, two important acknowledgements: What...
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Mar 17th, 2020 blog, Social Impact
Ensuring Nonprofits Get the Help They Need
Dear friends, The world is changing around us by the minute. While this crisis is posing tremendous challenges, it's also bringing us together as a community in so many ways despite requiring us to remain apart. Now is the time for us to support each other. And yet it’s also a time when those who tend to support us the...
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Mar 11th, 2020 Marketing, Nonprofit Management, People of Pro Bono, Social Impact, Strategy
People of Pro Bono: Jay Levin, The Big EQ Campaign
The Big EQ Campaign is focused on bringing education on emotional intelligence to people on a mass scale. EQuip Our Kids!, a sub-campaign of The Big EQ, is a public education nonprofit focused on mobilizing support for emotional intelligence and social skills training in schools. Through Taproot, they have worked with volunteer project directors who have helped coordinate their efforts...
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Mar 3rd, 2020 All, Future of Work, Inclusion, Pro Bono Summits, Social Impact, Strategy
Pro Bono in 2020 and Beyond
By Lindsay Firestone Gruber, President and CEO, Taproot Foundation The Nonprofit Finance Fund released a report recently finding that 86% of nonprofits are experiencing an even greater increase in demand for their programs and services. And yet, more than half of those nonprofits say they anticipate being unable to meet the demand in the coming year. These numbers should concern...
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Jan 30th, 2020 Marketing, Nonprofit Management, People of Pro Bono, Social Impact, Strategy
People of Pro Bono: Barbara Bella, Golden Gate Philharmonic
Barbara Bella and the Golden Gate Philharmonic youth orchestra are using the power of music to strengthen their community. And when they faced tough communications challenges, they turned to Taproot skilled volunteers to help tell their story to new audiences. Uplifting a community through music Aristotle said “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and we are...
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Jan 28th, 2020 Nonprofit Management, Programs, Volunteer Management
Build a Better Project Scope in 4 Simple Steps
It’s the beginning of a new year, and for many of us that means a new to-do list of projects to take on. You’re not alone if that list feels daunting! But in our years working with nonprofits and skilled volunteers, we’ve found that the key to getting things done is getting specific and staying focused with an initial project scope....
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Dec 23rd, 2019 Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Impact, Technology
Pop Culture Tech Podcast: The Spirit of Giving
Originally published on VMware's Radius, Taproot Foundation's President & CEO, Lindsay Firestone Gruber, sat down with VMware for a conversation on tapping into the spirit of giving to bridge the social sector resource gap. Listen to the podcast, which is hosted by Blakely Thomas-Aguilar, or read the excerpt below. The Gift that Keeps Giving Gift giving has long been part...
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