Beyond Serving Soup

Editor's Notes

• #5: Everyone loves a checklist. Today this will be your checklist for what you should be able to walk away knowing how to do, the questions we know most of you have had to think about at one point or another when considering these kinds of programs.
• #6: BREE TO DISCUSS UP TO GENERAL SKILLS JENNIFER BOARD SERVICE & PRO BONO PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE We’ve found the easiest way to think of this is that “skills-based volunteering” is an entire category of volunteering activities, covering a few ways that different types of a volunteer's skills can be used to help an organization or the community directly, ranging from tapping some general skills needed to help an organization directly deliver specific types of community programs, to providing professional expertise and professional services to support the organization itself. The main distinction is that pro bono service is one very specific type of skills-based volunteering that focuses on using a volunteer’s core professional expertise. o help make it easier to understand how everything fits together, the Taproot Foundation created this helpful diagram showing the full spectrum of common corporate community engagement activities. They’ve grouped them by the common types of nonprofits needs that need to be addressed and then the different ways companies help support them. At the top is a very simplified categorization of nonprofits’ needs: ‘Making budget’ – having the funding they need to run the organization’s programs “Extra hands” to deliver services and programs directly to the community And “infrastructure and leadership” – having those critical components in place that are the backbone of any healthy institution Then beneath that are the common buckets of support that companies tend to provide to address these needs: Providing financial support Providing volunteers to help actually deliver the nonprofits’ programs/services directly to the community –through traditional hands-on volunteering And then we get into the broader category of types of skills-based volunteering activities, which covers a few ways that different types of a volunteer's skills can be used to help an organization, ranging from: Tapping some general skills needed to help an organization directly deliver specific types of community programs. These can be skills a volunteer brings to the table or sometimes it’s knowledge that the nonprofit will provide. A very common example is Junior Achievement. Providing employee board members to support the leadership of the organization And providing professional expertise and professional services to support the organization itself. Despite popular belief, pro bono is definitely not just for lawyers! Nonprofits have need for just as many types of professional expertise as for-program companies do. From IT support to marketing to HR services - it’s not all about fundraising. As we go through this presentation, Start thinking about which of these feel most familiar to you based on your company’s existing programs and your goals. Which of these do you already do? In which of these categories to you want to expand your offerings?
• #7: <<This slide and the one after should not be used in the same presentation because they explain the same concept. This slide is helpful when explaining how pro bono service leverages volunteers for more impact.>> So in thinking about volunteerism, where does pro bono fit it? Starting here at the base of the triangle… The most traditional well known volunteering is what we call “hands on” or Extra Hands – that’s usually things like distributing food, cleaning up a park, or painting a school. These are incredible resources for nonprofits, however they need a lot of people-power to keep their operations humming and in general, have a very low sustainability of impact on the organization. Moving to the next level, we come to Skilled Volunteering which uses skills to help with tutoring, judging a science fair, or supporting a literacy program. These skills, however, may not be the skills that professionals use in your every day work. Then comes Pro Bono Service. This is when skilled volunteers or pro bono consultants complete projects that they might do in their day job for organizations that are tackling important social issues. Pro bono projects often produce deliverables or processes that a social change organization can use for years to come resulting in a very high sustainability of impact on the organization. For example, website improvements, improving a database system or building a HR performance management system. On the top here, is Board Service. While board service may not tap into skills someone uses in their day job, it does allow volunteers to use not just their skills, but also their networks and relationships to engage the community. The most successful boards engage a board with diverse skill sets to strengthen the organizations infrastructure.
• #9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8oHxnN4ICw
• #10: VISION: To ignite and catapult volunteering by inviting the public to join together in the fight to end hunger through strategic volunteerism, while preparing community and civic organizations to engage more volunteers in deeper ways. GOAL: Strengthen the capacity and reach of nonprofits through the donation of at least 500,000 hours of service in the fight against hunger by September 2018, with half of the hours focused on strategic volunteerism. Increase national awareness of hunger and role of strategic volunteerism as a solution for long-term sustainable change Bolster nonprofit capacity by filling gaps in resource needs Increase utilization of technology Establish a centralized hub for stakeholders to connect and engage Provide national and local training opportunities Increase access to technical assistance, coaching, and peer learning Establish a library of online tools and resources
• #12: Building the long-term capacity of organizations to ease the burden of using their limited funds to pay for professional services (skills-based or pro bono, organizational governance) Helping communities to grow, distribute and sustain access points to farm-fresh foods (gardens, community supported agriculture, farmers' markets) Increasing the awareness of and connecting families to the Federal Nutrition Programs such as SNAP, summer meals and school breakfast programs Participating in advocacy actions that will inform and engage elected officials to champion and preserve Federal funding for nutrition and anti-poverty programs and to strengthen the ability of these programs to aid Americans in need
• #14: The goal is for the website to become the premiere aggregation place for hunger information, resources, and stories that empowers individuals and organizations.
• #19: Increase in skilled listings 3385  4818 since May 2014 to May 2016 Increase in skilled connections 3704  4908 since May 2014 to May 2016
• #24: Jenn Most organizations tackling social problems don’t have access to the resources that are available to most companies like marketing, strategy, HR, and IT….Taproot connects these organizations to skilled volunteers who provide their expertise pro bono. Our mission is to drive social change by leading, mobilizing and engaging professional in pro bono service. To date, we’ve worked with more than 13,700 professionals across the country to delvier 1.4 million hours of pro bono consulting which is values at more than $150 million in pro bono consulting to the nonprofit community.
• #25: <<“What we do” slide for presentation slides. There’s less text, though the full language is written below>> PROGRAMS: Taproot pairs nonprofits with skilled volunteers in areas like marketing, strategy, HR, and IT. From one-on-one consultations to team-based long-term projects, we offer in-person and virtual engagements. CORPORATE ADVISORY SERVICES: Taproot advises and supports companies in developing customized, high-impact pro bono programs for their employees and communities. PRO BONO LEADERSHIP: Taproot drives social change by enabling pro bono service in the US and through a global provider network. Taproot convenes leaders at signature events and facilitates field-building research.
• #26: Talking Points: Background on the tool, why we built it, where it lives, how to use it
• #27: Taproot + slide
• #29: Get started on your own and hear about how this food bank successfully leveraged skilled volunteers.