Getting Your Foundation’s Board on Board with Pro Bono: Tips from Tarah Evans of the Franklin and Catherine Johnson Foundation
General operations funding and capacity-building resources from family foundations make a big difference for their grantees. Nonprofits that receive them have a much better chance of thriving, growing, and increasing their impact. Funders like the Franklin and Catherine Johnson Foundation have found that integrating pro bono into their grantee offerings to subsidize capacity building has been incredibly rewarding for all...
Read MoreResiliency Pro Bono Project Highlight: Program Evaluation
Nonprofits are often the first to respond when communities are in crisis, but all too often a lack of behind-the-scenes resources makes it hard for them to do that essential work. Pro bono can help provide those resources and ultimately increase their impact. We’re breaking down our nonprofit resource, Building Resiliency Through Pro Bono, project-by-project to highlight how working with volunteers on capacity-building projects can grow nonprofit impact. Check out our previous project highlights on pitch...
Read MoreThe Four Core Values That Drive Us at Taproot
Our core values are at the heart of everything we do at Taproot–they’re the inspiration behind every new project and the touchstone we need when it’s time to make decisions. These four values—pragmatic optimism, impact-oriented, playful professionalism, and progress—keep us grounded as a community and centered on our shared vision. They're behind all the ways we 'make it matter' every day! Here’s what several Roots (that’s what we call each other on the Taproot...
Read MoreResiliency Pro Bono Project Highlight: Finance Strategy
Communities have long relied on social good organizations and nonprofits when crisis strikes. But often these organizations face a struggle of their own: sourcing the funding, volunteer support, and tools to carry out their mission. 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 volunteers can help your...
Read MoreResiliency Pro Bono Project Highlight: Pricing Exercise
Social good organizations and nonprofits are often the first to respond in times of crisis—but all too often a lack of behind-the-scenes resources makes it a struggle for them to carry out their mission. Pro bono can help provide those resources and ultimately increase their impact We’re breaking down our nonprofit resource, Building Resiliency Through Pro Bono, project by project to highlight how your nonprofit can prepare to face whatever the...
Read MorePro Bono + Inclusive Leadership: Cognizance of Bias
Taproot Foundation and Deloitte co-created Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership as free resource for businesses that demonstrates how Deloitte has leveraged pro bono as one way to help develop inclusive leadership traits and how other companies can do the same. This profile from that resource showcases how a professional at Deloitte has connected pro bono experiences to their own leadership...
Read MorePro Bono + Inclusive Leadership: Courage
Taproot Foundation and Deloitte co-created Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership as free resource for businesses that demonstrates how Deloitte has leveraged pro bono as one way to help develop inclusive leadership traits and how other companies can do the same. This profile from that resource showcases how a professional at Deloitte has connected pro bono experiences to their own leadership...
Read MorePro Bono + Inclusive Leadership: Commitment
Taproot Foundation and Deloitte co-created Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership as free resource for businesses that demonstrates how Deloitte has leveraged pro bono as one way to help develop inclusive leadership traits and how other companies can do the same. This profile from that resource showcases how a professional at Deloitte has connected pro bono experiences to their own leadership...
Read MoreTaproot’s 2020 Nonprofit Resiliency Survey Key Takeaways: Strategy Highlights
In the summer of 2020, we surveyed nonprofits on how the COVID-19 pandemic was affecting their work. Organizations across mission areas and budget sizes told us that the pandemic had done more than impact their day-to-day programmatic work, it was putting a real strain on their operations and fundraising efforts. We break down high-level insights from that survey in our...
Read MorePro Bono + Inclusive Leadership: Collaboration
Taproot Foundation and Deloitte co-created Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership as free resource for businesses that demonstrates how Deloitte has leveraged pro bono as one way to help develop inclusive leadership traits and how other companies can do the same. This profile from that resource showcases how a professional at Deloitte has connected pro bono experiences to their own leadership...
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