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PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 23

September 22, 2012

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 23

Advisory Services Social Impact

What do 32 happy marketing professionals do in the office for 24hours? Of course they do pro bono! This week I had the chance to see the power of pro…

LinkedIn and Taproot Team Up to Support Nonprofit Boards

September 21, 2012

LinkedIn and Taproot Team Up to Support Nonprofit Boards

Nonprofit Management Social Impact

  At the Board Source Leadership Forum in Chicago last weekend, LinkedIn announced the launch of a new initiative to help solve one of the bigge…

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 21

September 10, 2012

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 21

Social Impact

Meeting a pro bono hero Last week I met an amazing pro bono consultant. Not only has he already completed 8 projects with Taproot over the course of …

September 7, 2012

Most Common In-Kind and Pro Bono Resources

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Prepare Your Team for Pro Bono

September 5, 2012

Prepare Your Team for Pro Bono

Advisory Services Corporate Social Responsibility Employee Engagement

You just returned from a meeting with one of your largest corporate partners. In the meeting, you explored the possibility of your corporate partner …

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 20

August 31, 2012

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 20

Advisory Services Pro Bono Summit Social Impact

20 weeks of Pro Bono Adventures and yet I keep learning new things about pro bono every day. This week I discovered the competencies map . This tool …

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 19

August 24, 2012

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 19

Advisory Services Corporate Social Responsibility Social Impact

This week I learned about Taproot in numbers. As the graphic below shows, Taproot has awarded 2,097 Service Grant to nonprofits since its inception i…

Pro Bono Sino-USA Forum

August 20, 2012

Pro Bono Sino-USA Forum

Global

Two years ago I was in China and helped develop a partnership between HP, Narada Foundation, BSR, Taproot and Huizeren, a leading capacity building o…

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 17 and 18

August 17, 2012

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 17 and 18

Advisory Services All

During Taproot’s summer retreat in Chicago last week I had the chance to finally meet Roots from all the five metro areas that Taproot serves. …

August 17, 2012

PRO BONO ADVENTURES OF ARMIN: WEEK 17 and 18

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During Taproot’s summer retreat in Chicago last week I had the chance to finally meet Roots from all the five metro areas that Taproot serves. …

August 15, 2012

Guest Blog: Inappropriate Icebreakers

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As a Taproot employee and pro bono junkie, I watch a lot of new groups come together: teams on pro bono projects, pro bono consultants at orientation…

Summer All-Root Retreat

August 14, 2012

Summer All-Root Retreat

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Last week, our team met in Woodstock, IL for our semi-annual All-Root Retreat – three days of pro bono strategy and plotting. Roots (otherwise …

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