Resources for Professional Schools
Professional schools with thriving pro bono programs have one thing in common: they give students and staff the resources they need to be successful. As schools build the next generation of business leaders, there is a tremendous opportunity to cultivate the pro bono ethic. Find out how it all began, what is happening now and how you can be a part of it.
Pro Bono in the Classroom
- Professional School Program Profiles – This online resource allows students, alumni, and faculty to catalog active pro bono service programs at their schools and universities. Browse these profiles to see professional schools living and spreading the ethic.
Pro Bono Research
- Pro Bono: An Emerging Trend in American Professional Schools [pdf] – Aaron Hurst & Jamie Hartman (2009) – A selected group of thought leaders from the professional schools of architecture, business, design, and law are interviewed on the state of pro bono in their disciplines.
- Board Fellows Program Manual for MBA Schools [pdf] – Caroline Allen (2007) – This manual is a guide for setting up a Board Fellows program at an MBA school, and takes a look at several successful programs across the country.
- Making the Business Case for Pro Bono [pdf] – Pro Bono Institute (2002) – 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.
- A Handbook on Law School Pro Bono Programs [pdf] – The AALS Pro Bono Project (2001) – This handbook focuses on the nuts and bolts of the operation of pro bono programs in law schools in the United States. It is designed to help schools inspire and enable their students to live up to the legal profession’s highest ideals of public service.
In the News
- How to get an extra $1 billion from business [pdf] The Chronicle of Philanthropy (2006) As nonprofit groups seek to accomplish their missions as efficiently as possible, they often look to corporations for help.
- 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.
- The Corporate Philanthropist Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (Spring, 2008) Pro Bono Service: Leveraging Employee Expertise
- Giving Frugally: Charitable Giving in Lean Times Associated Press (December 2008)
- Volunteering Used for Career Advancement ABC7 News (November 2008)
- Volunteerism 2.0: Exploring a new way of lending our time for good onPhilanthropy (June 2008)
- Pro Bono: For the Good Civic Consulting Alliance video (2008)
- Pro Bono in Action Pro Bono Action Tank video (2009)
