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Job Description

About Us

The Taproot Foundation is a volunteer organization that builds teams of marketing and creative services, strategy management, human resources, and information technology professionals to work on projects for local nonprofits. Join a team of highly skilled professionals who are doing pro bono work to help a local nonprofit increase its impact while boosting your resume and portfolio.

As a Taproot Foundation volunteer, you will have the chance to work with a local nonprofit organization specializing in one of the following issue areas:

• Education
• Health
• Environment
• Social Services
• Arts

The Taproot Foundation lets you "give what you know" so that you can make the strongest impact on your local community while networking and growing professionally. We are currently looking for seasoned copywriters to join our award-winning pool of professional volunteers.

Job Requirements

Copywriters Needed

The Copywriter role is responsible for creating the marketing copy for website, brochure, naming, key messages, or annual report projects. He or she will often work closely with the nonprofit’s marketing personnel to improve existing marketing copy.  A successful copywriter has two or more years experience in copywriting at an agency or as an internal copywriter. In this role, you should have extensive experience working with visual designers to develop marketing collateral (brochures, websites, direct mail pieces), and be familiar with either the AP Style Guide or Chicago Manual of Style.

Each Taproot Foundation project lasts 5 - 6 months with volunteers committing 3 - 5 hours of their time each week, often virtually. This opportunity is flexible enough to work around the schedule of your full-time job.

To learn more, please visit us at http://www.taprootfoundation.org/volunteering.