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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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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Nov 16th, 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Nonprofit Management, Pro Bono Summit, Volunteer Consulting
Highlights from Taproot Foundation’s 2021 U.S. Pro Bono Summit
Taproot Foundation celebrated its annual U.S. Pro Bono Summit, exploring how the power of pro bono service can transform nonprofits, schools, and small businesses. The Summit provided innovative tips and facilitated open discussions between corporate pro bono practitioners to share their experiences, best practices, and challenges in developing skills-based volunteering opportunities. Taproot also delivered two webinars for the nonprofit, philanthropic, and corporate sectors,...
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Mar 4th, 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Employee Engagement
Taproot Foundation and Deloitte Release New Business Resource: Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership
March 4, 2021 – New York, NY –Taproot Foundation, in collaboration with Deloitte, announced today a free resource for businesses that examines how pro bono service is emerging as an impactful growth opportunity for cultivating inclusive leaders. Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership explores how companies can design pro bono service programs to help cultivate core competencies of inclusive leadership, as...
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Oct 22nd, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Pro Bono Week
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana: Helping Everyday People Do Extraordinary Good
Taproot Foundation is highlighting the partnerships we need to Rebuild Our Communities—Together during Pro Bono Week 2020. For Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, community comes first. But that community goes beyond their headquarters of Baton Rouge, beyond their nine regional offices across Louisiana, and even beyond their own policyholders. Since 1934, when area hospitals joined forces to form...
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Sep 22nd, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Employee Engagement, Social Impact
Deloitte: Leveraging Professional Skills to Help Nonprofits Solve Complex Challenges
It’s powerful to see grassroots initiatives out in our communities. They bubble up organically, fueled by passionate, committed people intent on making society a better place for all. But it’s not all that common to see organic initiatives blossom like this in the corporate world. That’s why we are beyond inspired when we see an initiative like Deloitte’s stepup program...
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Aug 25th, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and Metlife Foundation Partner with Taproot Foundation to Support Small Businesses
Taproot launches Taproot Plus for Small Business offering free virtual consulting support in the wake of COVID-19 August 25, 2020 – San Francisco, CA – In response to the dire economic challenges presented by COVID-19, Taproot Foundation, a national nonprofit that connects organizations with volunteers sharing their professional expertise pro bono, today announced it will open its online volunteer matchmaking...
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Aug 19th, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Pro Bono Week
5 Ways Your Company Can Celebrate Pro Bono Week This Year
Pro Bono Week is our favorite time of year here at Taproot. It’s our excuse (not that we need one) to join countless organizations, intermediaries, and companies around the globe in celebrating the impact of pro bono. And in 2020—with communities confronting some of the toughest challenges in recent memory—this week will bring us all together (virtually, of course) in...
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