Jul 8th, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement, Social Impact
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Partners with Taproot Foundation to Launch Online Volunteering Platform
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is partnering with Taproot Foundation, a leader in pro bono volunteer service, to launch the state’s first dedicated platform for virtual pro bono volunteering. Through this platform, Louisiana’s nonprofits can connect with individual volunteers who have business expertise in areas where they are seeking assistance. Using the online platform Taproot Plus, business professionals...
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Jun 18th, 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Impact
Matt O’Grady Day 2020: a Day for Reflection and Responsibility
From Lindsay Firestone Gruber, Taproot Foundation's President & CEO Every June at Taproot Foundation we are proud to celebrate a day we call Matt O’Grady Day. This day is both a celebration of the civil rights that activists have won and protected, and a day of service, engagement, learning, and reflection on how we can do better. But if you’ve...
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Mar 24th, 2020 COVID-19 Response, Philanthropy, Social Impact, Volunteer Consulting
How You Can Support Nonprofits Responding to COVID-19
Nonprofits around the world are heroically responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, working day and night to provide our communities with food, shelter, healthcare, education, and other much needed forms of kindness and security. As these organizations manage a new, huge demand for their services, they also face diminishing resources due to scrapped programs, loss of volunteer events, and cancelled fundraisers....
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Mar 18th, 2020 Advisory Services, Corporate Social Responsibility, COVID-19 Response, Social Impact
The Top 5 Ways Your Company Can Help Nonprofits Right Now Through Pro Bono
Companies are asking us what nonprofits need right now and how pro bono can help. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most pervasive urgent organizational needs nonprofits are confronting across the sector due to the COVID-19 crisis, and real-life examples of the types of pro bono support that can make a real difference. First, two important acknowledgements: What...
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Mar 17th, 2020 COVID-19 Response, Social Impact
Ensuring Nonprofits Get the Help They Need
Dear friends, The world is changing around us by the minute. While this crisis is posing tremendous challenges, it's also bringing us together as a community in so many ways despite requiring us to remain apart. Now is the time for us to support each other. And yet it’s also a time when those who tend to support us the...
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Mar 11th, 2020 Marketing, Nonprofit Management, People of Pro Bono, Social Impact, Strategy
People of Pro Bono: Jay Levin, The Big EQ Campaign
The Big EQ Campaign is focused on bringing education on emotional intelligence to people on a mass scale. EQuip Our Kids!, a sub-campaign of The Big EQ, is a public education nonprofit focused on mobilizing support for emotional intelligence and social skills training in schools. Through Taproot, they have worked with volunteer project directors who have helped coordinate their efforts...
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Mar 3rd, 2020 All, Future of Work, Inclusion, Pro Bono Summits, Social Impact, Strategy
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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Jan 30th, 2020 Marketing, Nonprofit Management, People of Pro Bono, Social Impact, Strategy
People of Pro Bono: Barbara Bella, Golden Gate Philharmonic
Barbara Bella and the Golden Gate Philharmonic youth orchestra are using the power of music to strengthen their community. And when they faced tough communications challenges, they turned to Taproot skilled volunteers to help tell their story to new audiences. Uplifting a community through music Aristotle said “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and we are...
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Dec 23rd, 2019 Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Impact, Technology
Pop Culture Tech Podcast: The Spirit of Giving
Originally published on VMware's Radius, Taproot Foundation's President & CEO, Lindsay Firestone Gruber, sat down with VMware for a conversation on tapping into the spirit of giving to bridge the social sector resource gap. Listen to the podcast, which is hosted by Blakely Thomas-Aguilar, or read the excerpt below. The Gift that Keeps Giving Gift giving has long been part...
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Dec 3rd, 2019 Global, People of Pro Bono, Social Impact, Technology, Volunteer Consulting
People of Pro Bono: Antoine Clément
An experienced software developer, Antoine is a long-time advocate for pro bono service. He has not only personally donated over 200 hours of pro bono support but, inspired by the reach and impact of skilled volunteering, has also kick-started a pro bono program at his company. A call to serve Growing up, I wanted to be a king—not because I...
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