Background Screening for Nonprofits & Volunteers

Every volunteer represents your organization and plays a vital role in upholding its mission. Prioritizing a consistent screening process builds a culture of trust and accountability that protects your community, secures your funding, and ensures your resources remain focused on your core impact.

• Caring for Your Community: Conducting sex offender and abuse registry checks is a non-negotiable step in keeping children, seniors, and others in your care safe.
• Building a Foundation of Trust: When community members and donors see that you prioritize safety, it builds the foundation your nonprofit needs to grow.
• Protecting Your Mission: Proactive screening safeguards your organization's reputation and reduces liability, ensuring your resources stay dedicated to making a positive impact.

The best approach is to match the screening level to the specific volunteer role. Not every volunteer requires the same depth of vetting, and being intentional about this helps you maximize your budget while maintaining high safety standards.

• General Roles: A national criminal history search and sex offender registry check are the industry standard. The Verified First Employment Screening Calculator provides a helpful list of screens to consider.
• Transportation & Delivery Roles: If your mission involves transportation or deliveries, a Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) check is essential to protecting your volunteers and community.
• Managing the Mission’s Funds: For volunteers handling bookkeeping or donations, a simple credit check adds an extra layer of security to your finances.

Yes. Verified First integrates directly with popular volunteer management systems and CRMs, including Volgistics, Bloomerang, and Vome. This allows your team to manage the entire screening lifecycle without ever leaving the platform you already use daily.

• Stay Focused on Relationships: Initiate background checks from within your existing volunteer management system to minimize administrative hurdles and onboard volunteers faster.
• No More Manual Paperwork: Information flows automatically between your management system and our screening tools, eliminating the tedious re-typing of names and addresses.
• A Smooth Start for Everyone: Your volunteers can complete their portion of the screening process on their phones, making their first experience with your organization fast, friendly, and accessible.

We believe that every organization deserves to be safe, regardless of its size. Our background screening services are designed to be flexible and affordable, ensuring you only pay for the specific screenings you need to move your mission forward

• No Strings Attached: We don't believe in long-term contracts, annual commitments, or minimum monthly fees. This pay-as-you-go model allows your nonprofit to screen as much or as little as your seasonal volunteer cycle requires.
• A la Carte Choices: You have total control over your screening costs. You can select the specific screens that make the most sense for your different volunteer roles.
• Quick & Reliable Support: If you have any questions, our client support team is here to help with an average response time of under 30 seconds.

Large nonprofits require more than a basic screening tool; they need a reliable partner and a scalable system that ensures a consistent screening process across all locations and departments. Verified First provides the technology and dedicated support necessary to manage high-volume screening while maintaining the efficiency your mission requires.

• Batch Rescreening: For organizations needing to update multiple records at once (such as annual renewals), our batch rescreening tool significantly reduces data entry and completes large orders in minutes.
• Role-Based Screening Tiers: We help you automate custom screening packages based on specific responsibilities. Everyone, from executive leadership to one-time event volunteers, is screened at the appropriate level for their role.
• Centralized Compliance Tracking: Gain complete visibility across all locations, with time-stamped audit trails and centralized reporting that protect the organization against negligent hiring claims.
• Flexible Volume Pricing: We offer custom, discounted pricing structures designed for organizations that process a high volume of screens annually, ensuring your budget stays focused on your mission.