nonprofit insights: new tools and strategies for managing risk

New Tools and Strategies for Managing Risk April 6, 2015

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This webinar generously sponsored by:

Ernie Allen Founder, former President and CEO of National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Jennifer Bennett, CVA Senior Manager of Education and Training at VolunteerMatch

The Survey • Purpose:

Insight into how nonprofits screen volunteers • 1600+ completed responses • Questions on

– Techniques – Reasons – Time and Money – And More

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Who Responded? Top Impact Areas

13.9% 13.8% 10.7%

Top Job Titles

Volunteer Coordinator (24.5%)

Executive Director (8.9%)

Volunteer Manager (8.1%)

Who Responded? Number of Volunteers The Organization

Engaged Last Year

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Screening Techniques

“We ALWAYS use these techniques.”

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Screening Techniques

“We SELDOM or NEVER use these techniques.”

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Launch Poll #1

Do you screen your volunteers less than you screen your employees?

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Criminal/ Background Checks • 65.5% have run criminal or background checks

on volunteers. • 56.9% run criminal or background checks on

ALL their volunteers. • Nearly half say these checks

take 2-5 days.

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Launch Poll #2 Do you currently, or have you in the past, run criminal or background checks on volunteers?

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Criminal/ Background Checks Top Types of Checks

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Launch Poll #3 If you do run a criminal background check, do you run it nationally or by state?

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WHY Run Criminal or Background Checks on Volunteers?

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WHO Makes Decisions about Criminal or Background Checks?

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HOW MUCH do Criminal or Background Checks Cost (Per Check)?

*15.8% of nonprofits have volunteers pay for all or some of these checks.

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Discussion

Ernie Allen Founder, former President and CEO of National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Jennifer Bennett, CVA Senior Manager of Education and Training at VolunteerMatch

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Discussion

Type your questions into the “question box”

#vmlearn This webinar generously sponsored by:

The SureIDTM

Service is a Simple Four-Step, High-Assurance Identity Management Solution that Helps Organizations Enroll, Identify and

Verify Who They Can Trust.

To learn more, visit: sureID.com | vimeo.com/sureid/

Contact Information Dianna Collinson

Vice President of Strategic Partnerships 503.924.5271

marketing@sureid.com

For more free webinars:

http://learn.volunteermatch.org

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