Pablo Alvarado came to the United States from El Salvador in the 1990s and worked for five years as an undocumented laborer. Today he works for the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON) and helps to fight for the rights and dignity of day laborers.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 05.03.2012
Wowed by a singing barista and a great place to bring her two daughters, Cecilia joined the Starbucks team as their Vice President of Global Diversity, Community and Government Affairs, for Starbucks Coffee Company.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 04.27.2012
Claire Dixon uses her skills as a trained actress every day to tell the stories needed to drive social change around the world.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 04.23.2012
Like me, Paula Davis didn't last long in her first job out of college. But, she ended up working at some of the leading brands in the world -- even for Michael Jordan at one point.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 04.18.2012
South Carolina-based RIGGS Partners may be the only marketing firm in the country that has paying clients stop by to feed them breakfast in the middle of the night. The secret?
Aaron Hurst | Posted 04.03.2012
Based in London, Jenny Davis-Peccoud serves as the global leader of Bain & Company's Social Impact Practice. Having spent most of her career at Bain, Jenny has been able to watch the evolution of the firm's investment in social impact.
Monisha Kapila | Posted 05.29.2012
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges facing children and families in our communities and worldwide. In the U.S. alone, more than 15 percent...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.23.2012
Want a nose job but just can't afford one? Head to Brazil. In Brazil, the second biggest consumer of plastic surgery, cosmetic procedures have beco...
Sen. Mark Warner | Posted 04.28.2012
In tough times, we need to find more creative ways to help. Many American businesses have agreed to partner with their employees to donate pro bono services, leveraging the extraordinary talents of their workforce to help support community needs.
Evan Hochberg | Posted 04.27.2012
We often say that nonprofits are not in business to make a profit. But they are in business. And they have business objectives that require business know-how in order to be met.
Jennifer Lawson | Posted 04.26.2012
Disclosure: Morgan Stanley is a founding sponsor of A Billion+Change providing leadership, council and financial support. According to the Independen...
Aaron Hurst | Posted 03.21.2012
Stanley Litow serves as IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President of IBM's Foundation, with a career spanning th...
Aaron Hurst | Posted 02.18.2012
This weekend I had the honor to sit down with Kris Kringle, aka Santa Claus, CEO of the North Pole. Perhaps the world's most well-loved philanthrop...
Aaron Hurst | Posted 12.29.2011
Full disclosure: Aaron Hurst sits on the Board of BoardSource, a current Prudential grantee. Mary O'Malley wanted to be a nun when she was ten years ...
Aaron Hurst | Posted 12.21.2011
Full disclosure: Taproot received a grant from the UPS Foundation for 2012. Ken Sternad, Foundation President of UPS, loves logistics. I sat down wit...
Aaron Hurst | Posted 12.12.2011
Meg Garlinghouse is the Head of Employment Brand and Community at LinkedIn, where she works to leverage their incredible network of 120 million professionals for the greater good.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 12.03.2011
Business Volunteers Unlimited (BVU) links Cleveland area businesses to nonprofits and provides consulting, on, among other topics -- nonprofit mergers...
Matthew Fraidin | Posted 11.27.2011
Could a lawyer have saved Alecia Wheeler's life? As the D.C. Council considers how to spend the $89 million surplus discovered recently, her tragic death reminds us that pennies spent on public-interest lawyers can provide pounds of cure.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 11.16.2011
With shrinking government spending, we need to be much more resourceful as a sector to make sure we can achieve our critical missions.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 09.17.2011
Earlier this year at Taproot Foundation, we delivered our one millionth hour of pro bono service to the communities we serve. That's a lot of valuable...
Aaron Hurst | Posted 08.24.2011
You choose to make charitable contributions that focus on issues of the external world and society. That's generosity without responsibility.
Posted 08.20.2011
Since 1942, the non-profit Ad Council has been using the power of advertising for social good, educating Americans on important topics, and along the ...
Aaron Hurst | Posted 07.20.2011
Success is not an absolute and stationary thing. It is relative. It is not about how far up you are on the ladder but instead about how many rungs you are able to climb.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins | Posted 07.13.2011
Why get stressed about growing, managing, or navigating your career path alone when you can utilize the wisdom of others who want to help you move forward?
An Xiao Mina | Posted 07.10.2011
In the two years since Matthew Manos founded A Very Nice Design Studio, the firm has worked for clients as diverse as a Canadian high school and the UN. About 3/4 of their work is pro-bono.
Aaron Hurst | Posted 05.17.2012