Dec 30th, 2020 Tips from Taproot, Volunteer Management
4 Quick Questions to Ask When Considering the Support of Skilled Volunteers
By Crystal Hendricks-Kretzer, Taproot Foundation Director, Marketing & Communications. Originally written for and published on Ad Council's AdLibbing blog. You’ve got this project that’s been sitting on your to-do list for a while. It’s a behemoth; you’re not sure where to begin. And what’s more, it requires you to be an expert in areas you are certainly not. Sounds like...
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Dec 28th, 2020 Nonprofit Management, Service Area: Strategy
Resiliency Pro Bono Project Highlight: SWOT Analysis
Our communities rely on nonprofits to lead rebuilding and recovery efforts whenever a new challenge arises. While rising to meet these needs, social change organizations often struggle with changes in funding, volunteer support, and more. Pro bono can help fill those gaps. We’re breaking down our nonprofit resource, Building Resiliency Through Pro Bono, project by project to highlight how connections with skilled volunteers can help your organization become more resilient...
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Dec 21st, 2020 Nonprofit Management, Service Area: HR
Resiliency Pro Bono Project Highlight: Leadership Coaching
Communities can always rely on nonprofits to lead rebuilding and recovery efforts in crises big and small. But many of these social change organizations are now facing shifts in traditional funding and decreased access to in-person volunteer support, despite being called on to address ever-growing community needs this year. Pro bono can help your nonprofit prepare to face whatever the...
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Dec 17th, 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Pro Bono Summit
Three Upshots of Pro Bono in 2020: Key Takeaways from Taproot Foundation’s Annual Corporate Day
This year’s annual U.S. Pro Bono Summit Corporate Day moved to the digital space, where leaders from across sectors gathered to reflect on the challenges of 2020 and the ways in which pro bono can help in response. For many, those challenges shed light on opportunities they were able to embrace—opportunities to learn, improve, grow, and expand the reach and...
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Dec 16th, 2020 Programs, Tips from Taproot, Volunteer Consulting
5 Questions to Ask in Your Nonprofit Interview
You did it—you took the leap and applied to share your professional skills with a social good organization through Taproot Plus. But before you dive into giving back, it’s time to figure out if this specific pro bono project is a good fit for you and the nonprofit’s team. It can be tough to land on which questions to ask during this first meeting. That’s where we come in. Taproot is in the business of connecting nonprofits with...
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Dec 14th, 2020 Nonprofit Management, Service Area: HR
Resiliency Pro Bono Project Highlight: HR Assessment
Communities of all shapes and sizes rely on nonprofits and social change organizations to lead rebuilding and recovery efforts in times of crisis. This year, these organizations have had to address ever-growing community needs while navigating shifts in traditional funding and decreased access to in-person volunteer support. No one can know what the world will throw at us next, but...
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Dec 11th, 2020 Workforce Development
Salesforce and Service: Kim Lundgren’s Pro Bono Story and Suggestions for Volunteers
Workforce development nonprofits have an essential mission in our changing world: to ensure that people get the training and services they need in order to find careers and thrive. But where can these organizations go when they need business services outside of their own areas of expertise? Pro bono service can be a resource to build nonprofits’ internal capacity—this year...
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Dec 9th, 2020 Nonprofit Management, Service Area: HR
Resiliency Pro Bono Project Highlight: Board Recruitment Strategy
Crisis to crisis, we can always rely on nonprofits to lead rebuilding and recovery efforts. This year, despite being called on to address ever-growing community needs, social change organizations are facing shifts in traditional funding and decreased access to in-person volunteer support. While we don’t know what the world will throw at us next, we do know that pro bono...
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Dec 8th, 2020 Nonprofit Management, Service Area: Finance
Pro Bono in Action: ReBirth Empowerment Education
This is an excerpt from the Taproot's Building Resiliency Through Pro Bono resource. ReBirth Empowerment Education (REE) is all about clearing a path to economic stability for young adults in Dallas’s underserved communities. “Our thirteen-zip code recruitment area in Southern Dallas—known as the Cradle to Prison Pipeline—is home to more than 8,000 youth who are neither in school nor employed,”...
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Dec 4th, 2020 People of Pro Bono, Service Area: Finance
People of Pro Bono: Gloria Liu
"To anyone who is thinking about doing pro bono but hasn’t made the jump, I say go for it! Pro bono is a great opportunity to learn from one another—I’ve helped nonprofits learn new tactics or processes by sharing my expertise as a volunteer on a few different pro bono projects." Gloria Liu, Director of Finance and volunteer Gloria has...
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