Jun 13th, 2024 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Philanthropy, Pro Bono Summit, Social Impact, Workforce Development
Takeaways from Taproot Foundation’s 2024 U.S. Pro Bono Summit
Taproot celebrated its annual U.S. Pro Bono Summit in New York City earlier in May, generously hosted by venue sponsor PwC at their Midtown Manhattan location. The Summit was a dynamic cross-sector gathering of practitioners from across corporate, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors, all working to amplify and support social change through skilled volunteerism. The first fully in-person Pro Bono Summit since...
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Nov 16th, 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Nonprofit Management, Pro Bono Summit, Volunteer Consulting
Highlights from Taproot Foundation’s 2021 U.S. Pro Bono Summit
Taproot Foundation celebrated its annual U.S. Pro Bono Summit, exploring how the power of pro bono service can transform nonprofits, schools, and small businesses. The Summit provided innovative tips and facilitated open discussions between corporate pro bono practitioners to share their experiences, best practices, and challenges in developing skills-based volunteering opportunities. Taproot also delivered two webinars for the nonprofit, philanthropic, and corporate sectors,...
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Dec 17th, 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Pro Bono Summit
Three Upshots of Pro Bono in 2020: Key Takeaways from Taproot Foundation’s Annual Corporate Day
This year’s annual U.S. Pro Bono Summit Corporate Day moved to the digital space, where leaders from across sectors gathered to reflect on the challenges of 2020 and the ways in which pro bono can help in response. For many, those challenges shed light on opportunities they were able to embrace—opportunities to learn, improve, grow, and expand the reach and...
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Sep 10th, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Pro Bono Summit, Small Business
3 Key Questions for Designing Pro Bono Programs for Small Businesses
Small businesses create and sustain jobs while providing training in transferable skills, greater self-sufficiency, and a stronger sense of community to their employees. During the 2020 U.S. Pro Bono Summit Virtual Series webinar Rebuilding our Communities: Small Businesses our panel discussed how companies could best go about offering pro bono to small businesses and described a few program design best...
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Sep 1st, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Pro Bono Summit, Small Business
Small Business Pro Bono in Action: Two Case Studies
The 2020 U.S. Pro Bono Summit Virtual Series included a special discussion of how small businesses are essential cornerstones for communities across the country and how pro bono programs can (and should!) be designed specifically to meet their needs. While the needs of individual businesses vary as much as the work they do and the customers they serve, we can...
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Aug 27th, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Pro Bono Summit, Small Business
Pro Bono for Small Businesses: How Volunteering Can Rebuild Community Cornerstones
Small businesses employ millions of people, provide vital services, and contribute to the well-being of their communities. But what does their path forward look like in the wake of the current crises? In our final webinar of the 2020 U.S. Pro Bono Summit Virtual Series, Rebuilding our Communities: Small Businesses, Geraud Staton, Executive Director of the Helius Foundation; Anne Wellde,...
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Jul 24th, 2020 COVID-19, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Pro Bono Summit, Workforce Development
Workforce Development and the Power of Pro Bono: Rebuilding Our Communities Together
A record 30+ million people have filed for unemployment in recent months, leading to a massive increase in demand for employment-related assistance in the midst of a pandemic, an economic crisis, and the ongoing social and racial justice movements, all while facing a sector-wide drop in fundraising events and overall decrease in individual giving. In our webinar Rebuilding our Communities:...
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Jun 23rd, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Pro Bono Summit
Prudential Financial: Going Above and Beyond through Pro Bono Service
As Taproot Foundation’s 2020 U.S. Pro Bono Summit Virtual Series continues, we’re releasing a series of profiles featuring companies who are on the leading edge of pro bono service as we all work towards rebuilding our communities in the face of a global crisis. What can corporate pro bono service look like? Prudential is constantly searching for more impactful ways...
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May 19th, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Pro Bono Summit
Johnson & Johnson: Building Healthier Communities and Futures Through Pro Bono
Taproot Foundation’s 2020 U.S. Pro Bono Summit Virtual Series is coming up in a few short weeks. In the lead up, we’re releasing a series of profiles featuring companies who are on the leading edge of pro bono service as we all work towards rebuilding our communities in the face of a global crisis. For Johnson & Johnson, social responsibility...
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Mar 3rd, 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Future of Work, Pro Bono Summit
Pro Bono in 2020 and Beyond
By Lindsay Firestone Gruber, President and CEO, Taproot Foundation The Nonprofit Finance Fund released a report recently finding that 86% of nonprofits are experiencing an even greater increase in demand for their programs and services. And yet, more than half of those nonprofits say they anticipate being unable to meet the demand in the coming year. These numbers should concern...
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