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    Pro Bono Week
    Oct 27th, 2021 Pro Bono Week, Service Area: Finance, Taproot Plus

    Pro Bono Week: Five Finance Volunteer Opportunities

    Pro Bono Week 2021 is here! But what exactly is Pro Bono Week? It is a special time to celebrate the impact of pro bono service globally. The week allows us to recognize the commitment of the volunteers sharing their skills, as well as the social change organizations harnessing that talent to move their missions forward.   Every Pro Bono Week, Taproot...

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    pre scoped project drop-down menu
    Sep 28th, 2021 Service Area: Finance, Service Area: HR, Service Area: Marketing, Service Area: Technology, Taproot Plus

    Pro Bono Requests Made Simpler

    One of the biggest hurdles for nonprofits requesting pro bono? Creating a well-defined scope of work for themselves and their volunteer partners. If scoping out your organization’s needs into discreet, well-defined pro bono requests is something you’ve struggled with—Taproot Plus has just the tool for you.  We’ve taken some of the most frequent nonprofit challenges we hear from community members and have scoped out Taproot...

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    Finance Strategy
    Apr 30th, 2021 Service Area: Finance, Tips from Taproot

    Resiliency 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...

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    pricing exercise
    Apr 23rd, 2021 Service Area: Finance, Tips from Taproot

    Resiliency 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...

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    Neeta Shah
    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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    Dallas cityscape, where ReBirth Empowerment Education's programs are based
    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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    Child Steps International Liberia Volunteer Connection
    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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    Making the Case for More Pro Bono: 68% of nonprofit professionals report that they don't have enough financial resources to do the work they do. Pro bono can help.
    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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    People of Pro Bono:
    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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