Taproot advertises and connects skilled volunteers with projects onsite and virtually. They provide timeline and scoping assistance for longer-term projects. They have projects done-in-a-day, 4-6 week period, and 6-9 months-in-length projects.
Corporations are interested in making skilled volunteering a larger piece of their community involvement activities, and companies like Microsoft, HP, American Express and The Gap are publically and actively building more skills-based and pro bono volunteering programs.
The skilled volunteering movement is also growing among individuals – organizations like Taproot Foundation and Catchafire have joined VolunteerMatch to connect skilled volunteers directly with nonprofit projects, and they are growing by leaps and bounds.
standardized taxonomy of skills that volunteers possess and that nonprofits search for.