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Powered by Pro Bono

The Nonprofit�s Step-By-Step Guide to Scoping, Securing, Managing, and Scaling Pro Bono Resources

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Produktbeschreibung

How to access the power and profitability of pro bono resources

Savvy nonprofits use strategic management, marketing, technology, leadership to be competitive. With strapped budgets, many nonprofits cannot afford to pay for these resources. However, businesses are an often overlooked as an effective source of skilled professionals who can supply the needed skills. This book shares the acclaimed Taproot Foundation's pro bono best practices and shows nonprofit managers to apply them to their own unique challenges in a low-to-no-cost way. The author offers keys to identifying opportunities for using pro bono sources, recruiting pro bono resources, and managing pro bono projects effectively.
Reveals how a nonprofit can partner with a global corporations to further their mission in an effective and low-cost manner
Aaron Hurst is the president and founder of the Taproot Foundation who pioneered a new field in community investment and continually breaks new ground through its signature, catalytic programs designed for the emerging global pro bono marketplace
Gives nonprofit managers and staff the keys to identifying opportunities for using pro bono resources

Taproot's Aaron Hurst offers a hands-on guide to managing and engaging pro bono resources directed at nonprofit organizations.

Produktdetails

• The Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Guidebook Series .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9781118140956
• ISBN-10: 1118140958
• Artikelnr.: 35932096

Autorenporträt

Aaron Hurst is the president of Taproot Foundation. He is one of the nation's most recognized social entrepreneurs, and a leading advocate of pro bono service. He is also the author of the inspirational Mommy and Daddy Do It Pro Bono. Taproot Foundation, founded in 2001, leads the rapidly expanding pro bono marketplace. Taproot has served more than 1,300 nonprofit organizations through its award-winning Service Grant Program, designed pro bono programs for dozens of leading companies, and sparked key national pro bono initiatives such as Billion + Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures, Tables, Exhibits, and Worksheets ix Preface xiii Aaron Hurst
Acknowledgments xvii About the Taproot Foundation xix Introduction: Pro
Bono 101 1 How to Use This Book 2 A Brief History of Pro Bono 4 Nonprofi t
Pro Bono Use and Need Today 5 Making Pro Bono Work: Five Principles 10
Getting Started 14 Stage One: Scope Projects 17 Understanding Your Pro Bono
Project Needs 20 Using a To-Do List to Identify Project Needs 21 Screening:
Four Tests for Great Pro Bono Engagements 24 Scoping the Project and
Building an Internal Team 31 Conducting a Pre-Mortem 40 Stage Two: Secure
Resources 45 The World of Untapped Talent 47 Sources of Pro Bono 51
Identifying Potential Providers 78 Making an Ask 80 Typical Pro Bono
Application 89 Stage Three: Manage Projects 95 Phase Zero: Preparing for
Kickoff 100 Phase One: Kickoff 110 Phase Two: Discovery 119 Phase Three:
Drafting 130 Phase Four: Delivery and Implementation 135 Phase Five:
Evaluation and Celebration 138 Stage Four: Scale Projects 147 What Does It
Mean to Be Powered by Pro Bono? 149 Level One: Beginner 154 Level Two:
Practicing Pro Bono 155 Level Three: Organization-wide Adoption 160 Level
Four: Powered by Pro Bono 182 Epilogue: Off into the Sunset . . . 195
Appendix A: Determining Your Multiyear Goals 199 Appendix B: Examples of
Job Postings 201 Appendix C: Sample Liability Waiver 207 Appendix D:
Example of a Submitted Application for Pro Bono Services 213 Appendix E:
Sample Post-Mortem Template 217 Appendix F: Sample Post-Project Surveys 221
Appendix G: Identifying Your Core Competencies 229 Appendix H: Potential
Pro Bono Projects 231 Notes 237 Index 244