What is the Taproot Foundation?
AH: The Taproot Foundation’s model is based on the concept of a Service Grant. A Service Grant is a packaged professional service product delivered by a team of volunteers who each donate five hours per week for three to four months. Each Service Grant is defined with clear deliverables, detailed volunteer roles, and a high-level project plan. All projects have a self-assessment cycle to capture learning that contributes to the Taproot Foundation’s knowledge base. Service Grants are designed to dovetail with an organization’s broader strategic plan. The Taproot Foundation assembles a skilled and multi-discipline team and begins the project with a comprehensive discovery of the organization’s strategy and assets. The team then works collaboratively with the organization to translate these items into a tangible result – for example, a contact database or web site. This content rich project approach has additional by-products. In the case of the brochure project, the organization retains
