Pro Bono Week
Pro Bono Week
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Pro Bono Week is a global campaign that celebrates and activates pro bono service across all professions that use their talents to make a difference. Inspired by the American Bar Association's National Celebration of Pro Bono, Taproot works with partners around the globe to focus attention on the pro bono movement each year in October.
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Volunteers of Legal Service Celebrates Pro Bono Week
October 23, 2014 /3BL Media/ - “[Pro bono legal assistance] allowed me to jump-start the business, and avoid the pitfalls that a lot of companies in the early stages can fall in. [The volunteer lawyers] were incredibly helpful in creating a contract with my factory that I was confident in and protected by—all which helped us scale.”
– Loren Brill, Founder, Sweet Loren’s...
Oct 23, 2014 2:00 PM ET
Volunteers + Tech Skills x Public Good = Big Wins
In the next two weeks Oct 18- Nov 1, Team4Tech volunteers from Facebook, Coursera, Google and Intersol will be using their tech know-how to help build out after-school STEM programs for students from Kenyatta and Barracks Primary schools in Thika, Kenya. They will train teachers to create, deploy and maintain their own after-school STEM...
Oct 23, 2014 12:00 PM ET
Crazy or Genius? Giving Away Half Your Work
Giving away half of your work to nonprofits.
For free.
Nuts, huh?
But it’s a trending business idea that reimagines what it means to be engaged in pro bono service.
This innovative model was put on the map by Matthew Manos, founder and managing partner of verynice, a global design and innovation consultancy which...
Oct 23, 2014 10:00 AM ET
Give Half 2.0 now Available for Digital Download
"At verynice, pro-bono work isn’t something that employees do off the clock, with or without incentives."– Ryan Scott, Forbes Magazine
September 7, 2013 marks the beginning of a movement: “How to Give Half of Your Work Away for Free” was...
Oct 22, 2014 4:00 PM ET
A Pro Bono Week Reaffirmation
A few years ago, I observed my first ScopeAthon event. On a dreary fall day, in a cramped room deep within the headquarters of a Fortune 500 company, I sat down with dozens of overwhelmed nonprofits and eager corporate employees. My first thought was, "What the heck is a ScopeAthon?" To get that out...
Oct 22, 2014 3:15 PM ET
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