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Non-Profits Team Up To Help Students
The non-profit group Free Spirit Media is helping students at North Lawndale College Prep get a leg-up in media production. But what's really surprising is the pro-bono support that Free Spirit gets from another non-profit, Taproot Foundation...
CSR in 2011: My Prediction
Gone are the days of obligatory federated giving through the workplace. In are GlobalGiving, DonorsChoose, VolunteerMatch, and Taproot, where people are directly involved in decisions about philanthropy, service, and conversations about making the world better...
When a Start-Up Grows Up
When Aaron Hurst created the Taproot Foundation a decade ago, the organization was seen by many observers as a spunky startup. Today the organization, which links skilled professionals with charities that need them as volunteers, has graduated from a fledgling upstart to become a more established presence—a change that means the group needs different approaches to its work...
Archived News Highlights
2010
- Make Your 2011 Resolution to Volunteer a Reality
- Career Advice to Combat Long-Term Unemployment
- Hard Times: How the Unemployed Give Back
- Help Yourself by Helping Others
- Non-profits Have Slight Edge in Campus Recruiting
- Pro Bono Consulting: Is It Right For You?
- Giving Back Pro Bono Style: Via Taproot
- It's a Whole New World When it Comes to 'Giving Back'
- Taproot Founder Sees 'Desperate Need' for Skilled Volunteers
- Pro Bono: The New Model for Corporate Giving
2009
- Interview with Lindsay Firestone, Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships
- Should You Ever Work for Free?
- Pro Bono Spreading with the Recession
- Pro Bono Meets the Public Company
- How to Get a Job by Volunteering
- Op-Ed: Making the Most of a Wave of Volunteers
- Philanthropy Chat: The Taproot Foundation’s Service Grant Program
- ‘Skilled Volunteers’ Get Something While Giving Back
- Survey Tracks Shortage of Volunteer Consultants
- Pro Bono Nonprofit Work, $120 an Hour
- Pro Bono Work Pegged at $120/hr
- Guide Released to Value Pro Bono Work
- Charities Tap Skills of Jobless Professionals
- From the Ranks of Jobless, A Flood of Volunteers
- Even Pro Bono Work Requires Doing Your Homework First
- Volunteers Swarm to Help Seattle-Area Nonprofits
- Companies that Care: Taproot Foundation Shares Their Picks
- Joel Bashevkin and Pro Bono Consultant Althea Collins
- Laid Off? Volunteer! Here’s Why and How.
2008
2007
- Taking Root
- Where Lawyers Show Us the Way
- Charities Grapple with Challenges in Keeping Volunteers
- Baby Boomers Find Obstacles to Volunteer Success
- Giving Marketers the Opportunity to Give Back, Chief Marketer
- Video Interview with Jen Benz, Taproot Volunteer
- Untapped Resources Blooming Outside Your Door
- The Tipping Point in a New Movement for Older Americans
- Putting the ‘Pro’ in Pro Bono
2006
- Younger Generations Lend a Hand in Their Own Way
- How to Get an Extra $1 Billion from Business
- Buying Power: How to Give Generations X and Y What They Want
- Taproot Foundation Celebrates Opening Chicago Office
2005
- Giving Expertise
- Social Entrepreneur Connects Nonprofit, Corporate Sectors
- Challenges & Opportunities - Aaron Hurst
- Grassroots Volunteering Draws Younger People
- What Works: Attracting Attention
- Connecting with Generation X
2004
- Web Sites That Match Your Skills With Their Needs
- Help from Business,: Directing Trained People to Nonprofits
- A Simple – but Inspired – Idea
- A New Way to Boost Nonprofits
- Nonprofit Gets High-tech Hand
2003
- For Love or Money?
- Taproot Taps Expertise
- An Alternative Route for Marketers
- Unemployed – and Working
2002
- Foundation Finds Help, But Not Cash, For Agencies
- Foundation Gives $300 K to Taproot Foundation
- Grants that Make a Difference
- Displaced Techies Turn to the Public Sector
