Taproot Project For the HOPE Program

I signed up with Tap­root to make new con­tacts that would be out of my reg­u­lar pro­fes­sion­al sphere, to have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to do some­thing new, and, per­haps, do a lit­tle good for this world. Being between projects can make one rest­less, and even a lit­tle bug­gy.

Tap­root, if you don’t know, is an orga­ni­za­tion that match­es up pro­fes­sion­als from the cor­po­rate world with non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tions that could use their exper­tise. Appli­cants can be from either side of the equa­tion; non-prof­its can use Tap­root to find qual­i­fied pro­fes­sion­als to work on spe­cif­ic projects that the non-prof­its need done, but don’t have the exper­tise to com­plete. On the oth­er hand, the cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als go through a screen­ing process that assess­es their skills and abil­i­ties and match­es them to projects that the non-prof­its need done. These are called ser­vice grants.

These grants can serve any num­ber of goals, such as devel­op­ing a web­site, cre­at­ing mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als, busi­ness analy­sis, board recruit­ment, fundrais­ing projects, and so on. Doing all the things that non-prof­its need done by pro­fes­sion­als, but don’t have the bud­get or exper­tise to do them­selves. This is where the vol­un­teers come in—various smart, hard-work­ing pro­fes­sion­als with skills, exper­tise and the desire to help out. This is where I come in.

www.taprootfoundation.org