Sep 7th, 2023 Civic Engagement, Volunteer Consulting
Remember 9/11 by Volunteering Your Skills
September 11, 2001, will always be remembered as a day of tragedy, but just six months after the deadly attacks, David Paine and Jay Winuk decided to change the way we commemorate the day and the lives lost. They created a nonprofit, 9/11 Day, whose goal is to “transform the anniversary of the attacks into a national day of service...
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Feb 9th, 2022 Civic Engagement, Volunteer Consulting
Have You Ever Volunteered Your Skills? We Want to Hear From You!
Taproot Foundation’s work wouldn’t be possible without our passionate and dedicated volunteer community members. If you’ve ever volunteered your skills through Taproot’s programs, your company, or independently—we need your insights! We’re conducting a wide-scale survey to help understand your volunteerism history and motivations so we can learn how we can better serve you, our talented Taproot volunteers. This volunteer survey...
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Nov 2nd, 2020 Civic Engagement
What We’ll Be Doing on November 3 (and Every Day after That)
By Lindsay Firestone Gruber, President & CEO of Taproot Foundation Our values guide our work in every way at Taproot—we believe in the power of civic engagement and the importance of supporting social good organizations through pro bono service. One way we honor these values is by closing our office on Election Day every year to ensure all Taproot employees...
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Oct 14th, 2020 Civic Engagement
Taproot’s Tips to Make a Plan to Vote!
2020 has been full of changes to our usual routines, and that goes for voting as much as any other process. It’s important that we show up to support one another help our country vote. Taproot Foundation was built on the principles of service, volunteering for the public good, and civic engagement. And what’s the highest form of civic engagement...
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Oct 7th, 2020 Civic Engagement
Nonprofits Devoted to Helping Others Vote
Nonprofits across the U.S. are working day and night to ensure that every eligible citizen has the information, tools, and opportunity they need to vote in the November 3, 2020 election. These organizations are managing high demand for their services while also facing diminishing resources due to COVID-19, scrapped in-person programs, the loss of regular volunteers, and cancelled fundraisers. It’s...
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Oct 1st, 2020 Civic Engagement
What Voting Means to Us at Taproot
Taproot was founded nearly 20 years ago on the principle of civic engagement and the belief that we all have talents to share in service of the public good. The highest form of that engagement, and our greatest civic duty, is voting. We asked members of the Taproot team (or Roots, as we call ourselves) to share their own thoughts...
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