Lessons from the Field: Leading a Website Renewal Team
Being the Account Director on a Taproot website development team was quite an adventure. I had been on four previous Taproot Foundation projects and stepped up to the Account Director of Wordpress website project for Mercy Health Clinic, which provides free health care for low income, uninsured adults in Montgomery County. Five lessons for successful website development Put together a...
Read MoreMasterCard Pro Bono Challenge: A New Way to Support Women and Technology
At Taproot, we love seeing meaningful collaboration take place between the corporate and nonprofit sectors. The second MasterCard Pro Bono Challenge was a great example of how quality pro bono service can be an excellent way to facilitate cross-sector collaboration, develop talent within the organization and generate lasting impact for both nonprofits and corporate employees. Teams made up of 25...
Read MoreWordPress Developers: Leap into the Pro Bono World!
Pro bono. It is a phrase that can evoke strong emotions. Some recoil in horror at the thought for doing something without pay. Some have nightmares of unwieldy bureaucracies, decisions by committee, projects that seem to never end and get quickly out of control. And while pro bono isn't for everyone, it also need not be a phrase that strikes fear...
Read MoreWhat’s Your Pro Bono Social Resolution?
Palo Alto, Meet Guadalajara: How HP cut across international and technological barriers to deliver powerful pro bono. HP has thousands of highly qualified project managers in every corner of the world. They are experts at distilling the complex needs of their clients into implementable project scopes. HP also boasts thousands of nonprofit partners around the globe. Many of these nonprofits have...
Read MoreIn Memory of Steve Jobs: Preserving Democratic Design
Putting design front and center Steve Jobs inspired all of us. He gave us permission to believe in a futuristic future, one that lived up to its promise and potential. Whether in the form of laptops that took HAL seriously, or changing how we think of phones - from a one purpose device, to a tool for humanity , for...
Read MoreService Grant Spotlight: Westside Family Health Center
Since 1974, Westside Family Health Center (WFHC) has grown from a grassroots women's clinic to a Federally Qualified Health Center that annually cares for nearly 9,000 under-served patients of all ages and genders in the in the Santa Monica area. Yet while their clinic grew in size and scope of service, it often lagged behind in terms of technology. But...
Read MoreAdventures of a Pro Bono Hero: New Orleans Edition
Making it matter in the Big Easy New Orleans, a city of true culture: raw jazz, free fun, and an amazing sense of pride and appreciation by tourists and locals alike. My ticket to this fantastic city came by way of becoming Taproot's Pro Bono Hero Contest. It seems like just yesterday when my friends and colleagues voted for me...
Read MoreTop Three Likes from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference
Being as obsessed as we are with positively changing the world, my company has gone under an entire rebranding in which we intend to focus on projects that provide social good; our new tagline is literally "Technical Guides for Social Good." All set and ready to go, right? No! Changing the world alone is hard! I wanted to find the...
Read MoreEight Models of Pro Bono: Sector-wide Solution – NetSuite
Over the next few months, Director of Programming Carol Guttery will be contributing a series based on Making Pro Bono Work: 8 Proven Models for Community and Business Impact, a white paper released by Taproot identifying multiple unique ways that organizations can adapt and deliver pro bono service to address a variety of social issues and business goals. She will...
Read MoreEight Nonprofit Web 3.0 Forecasts
We are nearing the end of the 2.0 generation of Web tools for the nonprofit sector and witnessing the emergence of 3.0. It's been a roller coaster of a ride since the dawning of the technology revolution with ups, downs, twists, and turns, all at lightning speed. Here are some highlights from the first two generations: Web 1.0 Program and...
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