"I definitely credit the pro-bono work I did with my ability to launch my own business so quickly, " says Ms. VandeLeest, who found the pro-bono work through Catchafire.
The body of the 62-year old congressman, who was killed in a skiing accident near Lake Tahoe Monday, arrived at a Palm Springs funeral home late Tuesday as mourners, including Bono's ex-wife Cher and their daughter Chastity Bono, assembled for memorial and funeral services.
The pro-bono work allowed the then-23-year-old to help a group whose work she cares about.
Ripple's grateful for the boom -- in part because it helps the firm offset pro-bono work.
Take, for example, the legal profession, which has varying requirements for a baseline amount of pro-bono services.
Effective pro-bono initiatives feel authentic, springing naturally from an alignment between employee interests, community needs and company programs.
Private investors are to provide seed and growth funding, while universities teach social entrepreneurs business skills and corporations offer them pro-bono services.
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Pro-bono projects have become popular among young professionals since they allow them to build their portfolios while they give back, Mr. Smith says.
Over 30% of the content is pro-bono, provided by local residents who upload articles and pictures and meet in coffee shops to discuss production.
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Since then, artists such as Geldof and Bono - who both featured on the record - have been strong campaigners on issues surrounding Africa.
On August 4, the American Center for Law and Justice filed a pro-bono lawsuit on behalf of firefighter and first responder Tim Brown, a founder of the Coalition.
From 2007-2009 Brooke served as director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum, an organization that arranges financial support for, and pro-bono legal representation of persons wrongfully sued for exercising their right to free speech on issues of national security and public concern.
However, they are aware that many of their treatments are still beyond the reach of Kenya's poor and so they have created a charitable arm to the company that provides "pro-bono treatments for patients in desperate need" and runs eye tests in the slum areas of the capital, Nairobi.
Thanks to pro-bono help from Silicon Valley legal powerhouse, Wilson Sonsini, SIRUM was able to get the California Department of Public Health to clarify regulations and for the first time enable pharmaceuticals companies, wholesalers, and skilled nursing facilities to make donations of surplus medications directly to the clinics that need them, without concern of liability.
His wife -- former Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack of California -- agreed that the leak added to what she called an already deep trust deficit in Washington.
Despite his vast following and torrents of media attention, Limbaugh, 59, gets trumped by an unlikely array of household names on our poll, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, Steven Spielberg and even U2 frontman and international do-gooder Bono (who also owns a stake in Forbes through Elevation Partners).
This engagement is even higher when employees are engaging in pro bono, skills-based opportunities.
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One of Palm's largest investors is Elevation Partners, a private equity outfit co-founded by Bono, U2's lead singer.
The move in New York also invites discussion around the tangible value of pro bono or skills-based volunteer service to the larger community.
Call it the "Bono Conundrum"--reconciling whether the great press a celebrity can garner for internationally important causes can outweigh their potentially shallow or self-serving reasons for getting involved in the first place.
The benefits of this promotion speak for itself: not only are more employees using their paid volunteer hours than in years past, more are getting involved in the skills-based pro bono programs that HP is so assiduously advocating.
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Yet, despite the high number of volunteer hours, the company is striving for an even greater number of participants in these programs, allowing it to further fine-tune best practices in employee volunteer programs, with a current focus on skills-based pro bono work.
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And as well as his corporate posts, he holds almost as many pro bono appointments at non-profit organisations.
If companies within every industry adopted an ethic of service that encouraged and incented skills-based, pro bono contributions from employees, imagine what could be accomplished.
For its part, The Advisory Board Company has committed to giving 2, 000 hours of pro bono service to high-performing non-profits in education and health care.
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The significance of the moment seemed lost on no-one and - despite the line-up of celebrities, Stevie Wonder, Usher, U2's Bono, Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce among them - there was no doubt who was the day's real star.
His falsetto still soars to the high-notes - in stark contrast to Bono and Paul Simon's fractured vocals at Glastonbury last week.
Unfortunately, so far it seems to be mainly new types of drum heads, and a vile-looking guitar designed by Bono out of U2.
Using his Microsoft riches, Mr Allen has also accrued some of the typical trappings of billionairedom: professional sports teams, famous friends such as Bono, and a mega-yacht, the Octopus.
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