Feb 12th, 2021 People of Pro Bono, Service Area: Finance, Volunteer Consulting
People of Pro Bono: Neeta Shah
“Rewarding—that’s how I define my experience giving my skills through pro bono. I thoroughly enjoyed working alongside all the nonprofit professionals and teams. Everyone involved was so intelligent, creative, and humble!" —Neeta Shah, finance professional and skilled volunteer Neeta Shah has donated over 60 hours of pro bono service using Taproot Plus and she wanted to share her experience giving back with other volunteers. Check out our People of...
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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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Aug 13th, 2018 Service Area: Finance, Service Area: HR, Volunteer Management
Profile of a Pro Bono Super User: Deepening Impact
Conversations with Child Steps International’s Founder and President, Tenneh Johnson Kemah Tenneh Johnson Kemah is originally from Liberia. She left the country after the civil war broke out, when she was just a teenager. She promised herself that she would return, that she would be a part of healing her country – but she didn’t know how. In 2012, she...
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Dec 5th, 2017 Nonprofit Management, Service Area: Finance
Don’t have enough resources to tackle your organization’s challenges? Pro bono can help.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed at your nonprofit with the amount of work to be done and the limited financial resources and manpower you have to make it happen? You’re not alone - as a whole, nonprofits are understaffed, under-resourced, and need support. As a nonprofit ourselves, Taproot gets it – and we think that we have the solution. Pro...
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Jul 27th, 2016 People of Pro Bono, Service Area: Finance, Service Area: Strategy
People of Pro Bono: Debbye McDaniel
As a senior in high school, Debbye got her first job as a bank teller. Now she is a Finance and Operations Management Consultant with over 25 years of experience in accounting, finance, auditing, and financial reporting. I do pro bono service because I enjoy helping nonprofit organizations. In addition to trying to participate in everything Taproot does, I do...
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Mar 25th, 2016 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Service Area: Finance
Capital One Executives Lend Problem-Solving Expertise to DFW Nonprofits at Speed Consulting in Plano, Texas
How can we improve our organization's financial forecasting? What changes do we need to make in our budget? These were just a few of the questions nonprofit organizations from across Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) sought answers to at the Capital One Speed Consulting event, which took place Thursday, Feb. 18. The event was held at the Capital One Conference Center in...
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Jul 21st, 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Service Area: Finance
CASE STUDY: Second Harvest Community Food Bank and Hillshire Brands
Second Harvest Community Food Bank's new Executive Director Chad Higdon and his dedicated staff wanted to improve their operational processes at the food bank. Higdon and his team took advantage of an opportunity offered to them by Hillshire Brands to work with experts during a one-day session to help them identify solutions to three operational challenges in finance, safety, and...
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Jun 4th, 2014 People of Pro Bono, Service Area: Finance, Service Area: Strategy
Meet Chris Dedow: Financial expert and problem-solver extraordinaire
Financial expert and problem-solver extraordinaire Chris Dedow joined Taproot looking to continue his volunteerism and take it to the next level by using his professional experiences to strengthen nonprofits in the Los Angeles community. As a financial analyst at Disney, Chris Dedow is also a member of the company's VoluntEARS Leadership Council, helping lead fellow Disney employees in community engagement...
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Dec 4th, 2013 People of Pro Bono, Service Area: Finance, Volunteer Consulting
Meet Bing: Finance Finds a Pro Bono Champion
Bing Owens is a valuable pro bono consultant who brings a wide array of skills in finance to Taproot. Having started his career as an accountant, he eventually moved into analytics and strategies, and has made use of those skills for many nonprofits in Chicago. Bing first heard about Taproot in 2007 through an online advertisement. Since then, he has completed...
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