Nov 9th, 2018 Global, Social Impact
Mapping Cross-Sector Solutions to Food Loss
The following excerpt comes from Mapping Cross-Sector Solutions to Food Loss, published in the PYXERA Global Engagement Forum: Online. Some numbers defy the limits of imagination. What does 1.3 billion tons of wasted food look like? What could we do with an extra billion bags of potatoes or 3.7 trillion apples? What are the implications of 574 billion eggs spoiled?...
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Oct 19th, 2018 Global, Leadership, Nonprofit Management
Case Study: Orphan Impact
and Design Thinking
This excerpt comes from a piece published at The Conference Board, Building Leadership with Skills-Based Volunteering: The Nonprofit Opportunity. What motivates nonprofits and volunteers to engage in skills-based volunteering? Nonprofits use skills-based volunteering to strengthen their infrastructure in ways that better equip them to solve our communities’ challenges. Many volunteers give their skills to help solve a challenge for an...
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Oct 18th, 2018 Campaign Initiatives, Global, Leadership, Nonprofit Management, Volunteer Management
The Nonprofit Opportunity
This article was written in collaboration with Team4Tech and released by The Conference Board. Building Leadership with Skills-Based Volunteering What motivates nonprofits and volunteers to engage in skills-based volunteering? Nonprofits use skills-based volunteering to strengthen their infrastructure in ways that better equip them to solve our communities’ challenges. Many volunteers give their skills to help solve a challenge for an...
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Sep 28th, 2018 Global, Social Impact
Now More Than Ever
By Lindsay Firestone Gruber, President and CEO “Now more than ever…” How many of us in the nonprofit sector have found ourselves saying this in recent months? With our funders, with our volunteers, with the communities we serve. Now more than ever escalating issues are affecting our communities. Now more than ever people are turning to nonprofits to seek help....
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Mar 23rd, 2018 Global
Ready.
By Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald, Chief External Relations Officer It wasn’t hung for the attendees of the 2018 Global Pro Bono Summit, but there on the wall of ISDI-ACE in Mumbai, India—the site of the 6th annual global cross-sector gathering—was a sign: “If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It.” As intermediaries, corporate practitioners, and NGOs from locations around the world—Minneapolis,...
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Feb 28th, 2018 Advisory Services, Global
Reflections from Corporate Day at the 2018 Global Pro Bono Summit
By Ben Knopf, Senior Consultant When I first joined Taproot’s Advisory Services practice in 2014, more often than not when I met someone new and the subject of my career came up, I would inevitably invite looks of confusion – “wait… what do you do exactly?” Four years later, as I was sitting in a room on the other side...
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Aug 31st, 2017 Global
Taproot Foundation Expands Online Pro Bono Platform to First Global Market with Singapore Partner Empact
OAKLAND, Calif., August 31, 2017 /3BL Media/ - The Taproot Foundation announces the global expansion of online pro bono matchmaking platform Taproot+ to Singapore in partnership with Empact Ltd. The pilot program will launch during Pro Bono Week, October 22 – 28, 2017. Taproot+ connects nonprofit and social change organizations with experts who are donating their skills and time pro bono. “We created Taproot+ almost three years...
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Jun 21st, 2017 Global, Marketing, People of Pro Bono
People of Pro Bono: Kate Holby, Ajiri Tea Company
Since co-founding Ajiri Tea Company, Kate Holby has loved celebrating each milestone with her organization. The latest achievement—the improved math scores of Felix, one of the students whose education is being funded through Ajiri’s profits. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained Together with my sister and mother, we started Ajiri Tea Company with the goal of creating employment opportunities for Kenyan women...
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Mar 16th, 2017 Global
Inspiration at the 2017 Global Pro Bono Summit
Normally the highlight of any trip would be the chance to have dinner in an honest to goodness castle or presidential palace as it happens. And I can’t deny that visiting Quelez in Lisbon, Portugal, was breathtaking and all around fun. For me though--despite the “royal” welcome I was given in Lisbon as an attendee of the Global Pro Bono Summit--the...
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Nov 7th, 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility, Global, Social Impact, Strategy
Global Efforts for Global Problems: Approaching the Sustainable Development Goals through Pro bono Service
Pro bono is becoming a global gold standard for corporate volunteerism Seated among peers at the IMPACT 2030 Summit at the United Nations recently, I had one of those moments in your career when everything just comes together. For nine years I've been committed to connecting the social sector to the business talent they need in marketing, IT, finance, and...
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