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Secure Staffing in Non-profit Organizations
Harsh realities
in the commercial world are overtaking our non-profit institutions causing
them both organizational and financial staffing difficulties. This site
explains how your organization can take advantage of the most current,
nationwide, all-encompassing personnel profiles to make sure that the
people working or volunteering for your group meet your own rigid security
standards and those probably being required by your insurance carrier. This is a
special, low-cost program put together exclusively for those organizations
that are non-profits as defined by the U.S. Tax Code. Defining the problem... It's no secret that Churches, children's sports, and social benefit organizations all have suffered serious problems caused by unscreened staff sexual molestation of children, attacks on unsuspecting females, and embezzlement of organizational funds are just some of the problems that have found their way into the Press almost daily. This has
become so serious that many insurance providers have begun to warn clients
that without the adequate qualification of staff, whether paid or volunteer,
insurance coverage could be canceled or penalty rated. Since the
9/11 tragedy insurance rates have risen dramatically. Non-profits are
therefore caught in a Catch-22. On the one hand they must find funds to
conduct adequate personnel research or face the loss of coverage, while
on the other charitable funding has dropped precipitously. In the past
many organizations elected to do nothing. Now unacceptable, to whom can
they turn? Help is at hand! Employment
Research Services, a national research firm, has recently developed
a special program that will allow certified non-profits to do proper personnel
checks without emaciating their budgets. Special rates, now much below
commercial fees, have been established to help those organizations. Using the
Internet an organization can come onto the ERS secure website and request
a full range of personnel searches. They receive back written reports
that will protect the organization and its volunteer officers from negligence
suits. The reports are comprehensive, they turnaround quickly usually
in three days or less, and they are significantly lower priced than most
competitive instruments. For example,
ERS has now been licensed to electronically provide a recently created
national database that allows them to look at the sexual offender registers
in the 20 States that offer them, plus check all 36 States for which a
felony state criminal history database is provided. Both of these can
now be obtained for only $11 per search, an incredibly low price! Finding Searches to use ERS offers
perhaps the broadest array of personnel searches combined with behavioral
assessments and skills testing to companies and organizations alike. Go to the ERS Homepage and click onto the various categories to view descriptions of each service offered. On that site you'll find a link to become a client in a matter of minutes. There are no set-up fees or minimums, access is easy, and you can pay by credit card. Prices for
all other services can be requested on the website (click
here). Make sure to state when inquiring that you are a qualified
non-profit organization to get your discount prices . In summary, it makes no difference if you are located in Arcata, Ca. or Zelienople, Pa. If you are a member of an organization that serves the public without profit, ERS can provide the background research now being required of you. From a simple
check of a sexual deviant site to running a complex array of profiles,
ERS can quickly and inexpensively help you perform selection services. Don't wait
to be sued or to lose your insurance coverage! Act today.
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