Resources for Trade Associations
The pro bono ethic was solidified in the legal profession through the work of groups like the American Bar Association and the Pro Bono Institute. As your Association explores opportunities for your members, these resources will help you support, facilitate and expand the delivery of pro bono service.
Pro Bono Research
- Corporate Baby Boomers & Volunteerism [pdf] – Taproot Foundation (2007) This study seeks to understand the volunteer needs for Baby Boomers and corporate employees.
- 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.
- 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.
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 [pdf] 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)