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 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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Apr 27th, 2018 Leadership, Nonprofit Management
Investing in Nonprofit Leadership
Change is all around us Change is all around us--from climate to communities--creating a world of increasing uncertainty and turbulence. Nonprofit organizations are particularly vulnerable to these changing conditions, yet their work is needed more than ever. How can philanthropy help nonprofits build the strength they will need in these changing times? By investing in nonprofit leadership. We recently shared...
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Mar 28th, 2018 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Service Area: HR
Business Value of Pro Bono: Cultivate Your Workforce
Pro bono service is a powerful way to drive social change. Yet, many corporate employees looking to bring pro bono service to their company struggle to get buy-in from leadership and other key stakeholders. Although these stakeholders may understand the social value of pro bono, they don't always see the business value. That's why Taproot developed the Business Value of Pro Bono, a new resource...
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Mar 28th, 2018 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Service Area: HR
Business Value of Pro Bono: Develop Talent and Build Leaders
Pro bono service is a powerful way to drive social change. Yet, many corporate employees looking to bring pro bono service to their company struggle to get buy-in from leadership and other key stakeholders. Although these stakeholders may understand the social value of pro bono, they don't always see the business value. That's why Taproot developed the Business Value of Pro Bono, a new resource...
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Jan 9th, 2018 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Service Area: HR
Building Modern Day Leadership Through Pro Bono
Demands on corporate leaders are greater today than ever before. Companies face complex challenges characterized by increasingly collaborative contexts, numerous stakeholders, and thorny decisions. More and more, leadership development professionals at top companies are recognizing the necessity of providing their top talent with innovative, dynamic opportunities for development – particularly those that take place outside of the classroom. At the...
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Nov 3rd, 2017 Leadership, Social Impact
What Does Pro Bono Mean for Leadership Development?
At Taproot Foundation’s leadership convening Leading the Way, participants across the corporate, philanthropic, and social sector dug into how to use pro bono as a leadership development strategy. Whether it’s practicing intelligent risk-taking, increasing effective communication, or deepening an organization’s inclusivity, pro bono strengthens leaders and their organizations. The benefits of pro bono in leadership development In case you missed the...
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Oct 16th, 2017 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership, Service Area: Strategy
Leading the Way: Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Through Pro Bono
The Taproot Foundation is gathering leaders from across sectors for the first-of-its-kind leadership convening—Leading the Way—on Tuesday, October 24, at the Google Community Space in San Francisco. Pro bono as a leadership tool “The social sector is facing increasing challenges—and opportunities—requiring its leaders to be innovative and flex to meet the needs of our communities,” said Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald, Taproot’s Chief...
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Jul 24th, 2017 Leadership, Nonprofit Management
Pro Bono and Leadership Development: What it May Mean for the Nonprofit Sector
When we talk about leadership development in the nonprofit and corporate sector, there isn’t always an apples-to-apples comparison. As Taproot’s Drive Engagement campaign has evolved, we’re learning a few things about what pro bono and leadership development may mean for the social sector. Below, we share a few of these insights. What does Pro Bono as a Leadership Development Strategy...
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Jul 12th, 2017 Employee Engagement, Leadership
GUEST BLOG: Developing Entrepreneurial Leaders Through Pro Bono Service
Pro bono as an opportunity to develop entrepreneurial leadership capabilities Pro bono service provides a unique, and often overlooked, opportunity to strengthen the entrepreneurial leadership capability of an organization’s emerging talent. It can readily complement traditional leadership development approaches, stimulate mindfulness, and promote authentic human understanding. In this blog, I identify three key entrepreneurial skillsets—empathy, innovation, and curiosity—and highlight how...
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