Aug 21st, 2024 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Nonprofit Management, Social Impact, Volunteer Consulting, Volunteer Management
Learn How to Use Taproot’s Pro Bono Valuation in Upcoming Webinar
Taproot recently released our newly updated Pro Bono Valuation (PBV), a calculation that quantifies the monetary value of an hour of service by a skilled volunteer. The 2024 PBV was valued at $220 per hour, up 18% since the most recent update in 2019. So, what does the PBV have to do with your work as a CSR professional, nonprofit...
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Aug 14th, 2024 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Future of Work, Social Impact, Volunteer Consulting, Volunteer Management
Building Your Company’s Brand through Skills-Based Volunteering Programs
We recently explored the history of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, and how skills-based volunteering (SBV) programs are a way many companies fulfill their CSR goals. Often, company’s want to build their brand through CSR, developing recognition amongst current and potential customers of the positive impacts the brand has within society. This recognition goes beyond simply convincing your potential...
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Jul 23rd, 2024 Advisory Services, Social Impact, Volunteer Consulting
Make an Impact at a Pro Bono Consulting Event This Fall
Ready to make a difference this fall? You can create meaningful impact for nonprofits in need with just a few hours of your time! Volunteers from a variety of backgrounds are needed to help create real solutions for organizations doing vital work on housing, social justice, education, poverty, healthcare, sustainability, and more. Taproot is now recruiting volunteers for two virtual...
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Jun 13th, 2024 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Philanthropy, Pro Bono Summit, Social Impact, Workforce Development
Takeaways from Taproot Foundation’s 2024 U.S. Pro Bono Summit
Taproot celebrated its annual U.S. Pro Bono Summit in New York City earlier in May, generously hosted by venue sponsor PwC at their Midtown Manhattan location. The Summit was a dynamic cross-sector gathering of practitioners from across corporate, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors, all working to amplify and support social change through skilled volunteerism. The first fully in-person Pro Bono Summit since...
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Feb 28th, 2024 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Future of Work, Social Impact, Volunteer Consulting
What is Corporate Social Responsibility? Can Skills-Based Volunteering Fulfill Your CSR Goals?
The traditional ideas of what forms a corporate social responsibility (CSR) program are changing, and skills-based volunteering (SBV) programs are at the forefront of the new face of CSR. Taproot can help you design, implement, and manage effective corporate community engagement and skilled volunteering programs as part of evolving your CSR efforts and building employee engagement. Within most corporate social...
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Sep 9th, 2022 Advisory Services, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Pro Bono Service Highlight: Booz Allen Hamilton and Thurgood Marshall College Fund
As part of our mission and programming, Taproot accelerates transformative value-based partnerships between organizations in the private and nonprofit sectors. Through pro bono service, Taproot is proud to support connections between companies that are passionate about advancing racial and social equity, like Booz Allen Hamilton, with organizations that are making strides in the field. Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with...
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Jul 14th, 2020 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Future of Work, Leadership
Quick Consult: Empower Your Team with Future-Focused Skills
Quick Consult is a series where members of our team share insights into questions and topics we hear are top of mind for pro bono practitioners at all stages. Alexandra McArthur, Director, Advisory Services & Central Market Lead, provides tips on how pro bono service can prepare companies with future-focused skills appropriate for the changing world of work. Check out...
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Apr 30th, 2020 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, COVID-19, Employee Engagement
Service at a Distance: How Virtual Pro Bono Can Help Others Now
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the work of nonprofits on a massive scale; many are now facing uncertainty about the future, financial instability, and an inability to serve their primary beneficiaries (a group whose needs have likely increased). Service programs must adapt in order to reach them. Throughout this crisis we’ve been working alongside our corporate partners to translate their...
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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 18th, 2020 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, COVID-19, 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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