Resources for Corporations
Recognizing the social impact and business value of pro bono service, companies across the globe are increasingly incorporating pro bono programs into their community engagement efforts. We have collected a variety of best practices and tools at any stage of your pro bono program to help you become a pro bono leader.
What Pro Bono Service Could Look Like For You
- Community Engagement Spectrum [ppt] - By popular request, we have made available this modifiable PowerPoint version of our Community Engagement Spectrum to help guide your understanding of how pro bono service can roll up into your community engagement strategy.
- Employee Engagement and Impact Magnitude [ppt] – Created by Gap Inc. as a supplement to the Community Engagement Spectrum, to help you evaluate each form of engagement in terms of nonprofit impact and employee engagement.
- Billion and Change Campaign – The President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation initiated a challenge to leverage $1 billion in skilled volunteering and pro bono services from the corporate community.
- Pro Bono Case Studies – Explore the variety of pro bono projects and programs happening at companies across the globe.
- Competencies Map – This tool enables you to explore 76 opportunities for pro bono projects and the occupations that can serve the needs of these projects.
- Communicating the Business Value Flashcards [ppt] – Effectively communicate the business value of pro bono service to meet different stakeholder needs.
- Pro Bono Dollar Valuation [pdf] – The CECP recommendation for valuing pro bono services the same as cash giving.
- Designing for Impact Framework [pdf] - A guide to the tenets of high-quality pro bono service delivery.
- On the Frontlines: MBAs Gone Wild [pdf] – James W. Shepard, Taproot Foundation (2008) – Pro bono strategic services can make a huge contribution to the nonprofit sector.
- Pro Bono Standards – In partnership with the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), the Pro Bono Action Tank has developed standards for pro bono service to professionalize the field.
- Leading Practices Series Takeways: This series of leading practices conference calls were established to understand some of the trends and practices taken across companies from a variety of fields for managing pro bono programs. Partnering with Functional Leadership [pdf]
Tools for Getting Started
Tools for Integrating and Scaling Your Pro Bono Efforts
- Leading Practices Series Takeways: This series of leading practices conference calls were established to understand some of the trends and practices taken across companies from a variety of fields for managing pro bono programs. Professional Development [pdf] and Economic Downturn [pdf]
- Pro Bono Strategic Consulting: The $1.5 Billion Opportunity [pdf] – James W. Shepard & Alethea Hannemann, Taproot Foundation (2008) – Pro bono strategic management is an enormous opportunity that has the potential to dramatically strengthen the nonprofit sector.
- PBAT Corporate Consulting – We offer selective consulting services to develop customized pro bono programs that maximize the balance between business value and social impact. Our content expertise, best practices and tools draw from nearly a decade of experience developing and delivering effective pro bono services leveraging the competencies of corporate professionals. Through disciplined research, customization and evaluation, our corporate pro bono resources are designed to maximize your ability to have a significant impact on your nonprofit partners and the community at large, while also recognizing value to your company.
Supporting Pro Bono Research
- Making the Business Case for Pro Bono [pdf] – This brief monograph outlines the means by which an investment in pro bono can and will, in the long term, strengthen a firm’s ability to attract and serve its commercial clients.
- Pro Bono As Currency – Deloitte Volunteer IMPACT Survey (2009) – If corporate philanthropy is expanded to include the prized community of workplace talent, that will reap considerably more value – and do far more good – for nonprofits and communities in need.
- Strengthening Leadership and Human Resources Capacity in the Nonprofit Sector: Pro Bono as a Powerful Solution [pdf] – James W. Shepard, Taproot Foundation (2008) – This study examines the human resources challenges facing the nonprofit sector and the efforts currently being made to address them.
- Skills-based volunteerism: An unexpected tool for training and development – Deloitte Volunteer IMPACT Survey (2008) – Deloitte released their study on the potential of Pro Bono as a corporate professional development tool.
- Corporate Baby Boomers & Volunteerism [pdf] – Taproot Foundation (2007) This study seeks to understand the volunteer needs for Baby Boomers and corporate employees.
- Where Lawyers Show us the Way - SF Chronicle (2007) Lawyers have long recognized that it is a privilege to have the skills to practice their trade and with that privilege comes a responsibility to make those skills available to those who cannot afford them.