Article: Struggling Small Business Owners Find Fresh Advice From BizRoots in Weak Economy.

Pro bono strategic management in the United States has the potential to unleash $1.5 billion in services per year, enough to surpass the combined total giving of the top 20 corporate foundations and transform the way Americans think about the nexus between entrepreneurship and charity, according to a report published by the Taproot Foundation last year.

Yet when Daniel Hakimi, Founder and President of BizRoots, a non-profit small business consultancy working with inner-city entrepreneurs, thinks about the work his team does, he rarely thinks in terms of aggregated statistics. Instead, Hakimi and his team are focused on building prosperous communities by ...