Bain & Company Impacts Education Through Targeted Pro Bono and Other Support
Bain will be partnering with Bridgespan to address the education crisis in the US and beyond. With over 40 education-focused pro bono engagements in the past three years, Bain is driving deep impact on a signature issue area. Noteworthy projects include: Bain Employees in Chicago founded a charter school and provided an array of volunteer and financial support to Rowe...
Read MoreHuffPo: Hug-an-Accountant Month
Being an accountant is like being a dentist, only you have to cram all your patients in over the course of just two months. This is not a good time of year to be an accountant -- or worse yet, to be the child of an accountant who is never home. In that spirit, Aaron shares a few examples of...
Read MoreRe: Pro Bono Financial Management
Where do you think the nonprofit sector could effectively use financial management resources? Some thoughts: To start with, for volunteers from the corporate finance world to be useful to nonprofits, they need to understand how nonprofit finance works. Taproot could provide a primer: nonprofit accounting, grant process, reports, etc. This way the volunteer starts with some of the tools to...
Read MorePro Bono Financial Management
We consistently get requests from foundations to figure out how to engage business professionals in financial management work for nonprofits. They clearly see a need, but I am struggling to figure out how to make it work in a reliable and scalable way. Nonprofit accounting is pretty different from corporate accounting. It is more than just the fact that "P&L"...
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