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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aug 5th, 2013 Advisory Services, People of Pro Bono, Service Area: Finance
Meet Debbye: A Finance Expert Strengthening Nonprofits
Debbye McDaniel, a finance expert, had already done a lot of pro bono work on her own when she received a recruiting e-mail from the program director at Taproot's LA office in 2009. She thought it could be another way to get into the nonprofit sector and decided to join the Taproot Community. Since then she has completed three projects,...
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