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Skilled Volunteers

Use what you know to power what you care about

Put your professional skills to work where it’s needed the most. Choose how, when and where you lend your expertise.

What makes pro bono uniquely powerful?


Nonprofits take on some of the biggest challenges in our communities, often with fewer resources. That’s where your skills come in. They’re pretty incredible. And putting them to work for a nonprofit can be a game changer.


Pro bono—or skills-based volunteering—puts your professional expertise to work to make a positive, lasting change to one of the 35,000 nonprofit organizations fighting for human rights, expanding access to education, protecting the environment, and much more. And you will make new connections, gain valuable experience, and build skills that can move your career forward.


Here’s what pro bono with Taproot makes possible:

Make a lasting impact

Whatever your career stage, your skills can deliver lasting value—moving a nonprofit’s mission forward long after the engagement ends.

Grow your network

Build relationships with nonprofit leaders and fellow skilled professionals from every sectors who share your desire to make a difference.

Build your portfolio

Apply your expertise in new settings and gain new nonprofit sector experience to your resume.

Sharpen your skills

Keep your expertise sharp while building leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills through real-world work.

Who its for

Skilled professionals at every career stage

You don’t need a consulting background—or decades of career experience—to become a Taproot pro bono consultant. If you have professional skills and experience to share, there are nonprofits that can put your expertise to work. Taproot helps you find them.

Nonprofits of every size and sector

Partner with nonprofits of every size and sector looking for expertise like yours. From focused advice to project-based support, find opportunities that fit your skills, interests, and availability. Taproot helps nonprofits find you.

How it works


Taproot Plus: The platform powering it all


Getting started is easy:

  1. Create your account and build your profile
  2. Search and apply for best-fit pro bono opportunities
  3. Match with a nonprofit and need
  4. Start partnering

Two ways to put your expertise to work as a Taproot pro bono consultant:

Sessions

Put your expertise to work in just one hour. Help a nonprofit brainstorm solutions, make a smart decision, or map out next steps—bringing fresh perspective they can act on right away.

Projects

Go deeper on a defined nonprofit need through a multi-week engagement. Partner toward a concrete deliverable—like a financial model, HR policy, marketing strategy, technology solution, and more.

Types of expertise nonprofits need most

Click through to see what nonprofits are asking for across these 9 areas of expertise.

What skilled professionals get


Built to set you up for success

Easy Taproot Plus account setup

  • No cost to sign up
  • Volunteer as often as you’d like
  • AI-enabled profile set up
  • Robust matching filters

Pro bono best-practice tools

  • On-demand webinars
  • Research and insights
  • Real nonprofit success stories
  • Pro bono templates, tools and guides

Taproot Plus technical support

  • Platform onboarding
  • 24/7 AI chat support
  • Live help desk

More ways to put your skills to work


Beyond the opportunities on Taproot Plus, our pro bono marketplace, we partner with leading companies and funders to create even more ways to contribute. Through your account, you’ll get invitations to opportunities like these:


Workshop Facilitation

Lead a virtual training that helps nonprofit professionals build practical skills in an area you know well.

Speed Consulting

Meet with multiple nonprofits in a fast-paced event, sharing your expertise to help each tackle a focused challenge.

Long-Term Projects

Join a team of skilled professionals for an extended engagement, working with a nonprofit to design and deliver a customized solution.

ScopAthon

Team up with fellow consultants to help a nonprofit unpack a complex organizational challenge and build a practical roadmap for moving forward.

Pro Bono Marathon

Collaborate with a team of skilled professionals to tackle a defined nonprofit need and deliver a solution during a focused, high-energy event.

What skilled professionals are saying:

I love helping organizations scale & thrive by leveraging my experience in talent strategy & leadership coaching. I started volunteering to give back to the community, expand my network, and personally and professionally grow. Taproot has been invaluable! It's such a great platform to find and connect with nonprofits.

Jo Maxion

Leadership Coach and Talent Advisor

I enjoyed every moment of my experience helping Exploradoor build a new strategy in their mission to help young people prepare for life beyond high school. Taproot made it very easy to knock out the logistics and get down to work.

Paul Burani

I had a wonderful experience collaborating with my Taproot nonprofit, assisting with their strategic business planning needs. Drawing upon my extensive expertise in strategy development and execution, I had the privilege of helping to craft a comprehensive plan focused on acquiring and fostering valuable business partnerships.

Marni Martens

Founder and Lead Insights Consultant, Momentum Insights LLC

Taproot enabled me to find and support an organization whose mission I deeply believed in. I'm so thankful that I was able to advise in an area that I was experienced in, as well as learn more about the nonprofit industry firsthand.

Liwen Xu

SurveyMonkey, Product Marketing Manager

25 years powering what’s possible

See All

$350M+

in services delivered

35,000+

nonprofits served

150,000+

pro bono community members

1.9M+

donated pro bono hours

Ready to put your skills to work?


Join Taproot Plus and find a nonprofit that could use exactly what you know.