Taproot Foundation’s mission is to strengthen nonprofits by
engaging business professionals to provide high-quality pro bono service to local organizations.
What Taproot Foundation does
- Highly structured, skills-based volunteer projects. The Taproot Foundation delivers critical infrastructure-building support to local nonprofits by using a highly structured volunteer management process. Specific projects include pre-assigned volunteer roles, schedules, standard deliverables and management processes to ensure that all volunteer work results in high quality work product for the nonprofit clients.
- Menu of service offerings to meet range of nonprofit needs. Through Taproot Foundation’s “Service Grant” award program, nonprofit organizations receive new naming and branding systems, brochures, annual reports, websites, donor databases, performance management systems and other services from corporate volunteers.
Why Blue Ridge Supports Taproot Foundation New York
By recruiting volunteers to provide their professional expertise for nonprofit organizations, Taproot Foundation has the possibility:
- To make pro bono service part of the professional
culture of every business industry;
- To provide nonprofits with critical management infrastructure that is taken for granted in the private sector;
- To redefine volunteering by giving business professionals the opportunity to apply their existing skills for a social purpose.
Funding
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| Cash Grants from Blue Ridge |
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** Plus in-kind support associated with being housed within Blue Ridge offices |
