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Volunteer Screening

Our volunteer background screening platform is tailor-made for volunteer managers, nonprofits and service organizations helping them avoid onboarding risky individuals.

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Volunteer Community

Volunteers join our online community where, once screened and vetted, they can connect with multiple service organizations to volunteer.

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Sterling Volunteers provides trusted volunteer background screening for nonprofits and service organizations of all sizes throughout the country.

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Sectors We Serve

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Education

Screen volunteers at colleges and universities, preschool, elementary, secondary schools, libraries, and research institutions.

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Healthcare

Screen volunteers working at hospitals, clinics, laboratories, nursing facilities and relief organizations.

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Faith-based

Screen volunteers helping to support houses of worship (all faiths) as well as faith-based auxiliary services.

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Social & Human Services

Screen volunteers working with organizations serving the elderly, disabled, homeless, low income, and other vulnerable populations.

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Sports

Screen youth coaches, referees, and others volunteering with amateur, Olympic and youth sports teams.

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Youth Development

Screen volunteers providing mentoring, outreach, leadership and other youth development services.

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Resources

Rethinking Volunteer Engagement Among Disruption

Over the past few years, disruptions have affected everyone, and every industry, volunteer engagement and nonprofit operations included. Examples abound with organizations overcoming these disruptions and transforming them into opportunities to impactfully engage volunteers. Nonprofit expert Beth Steinhorn, President of VQ Volunteer Strategies, joined Katie Zwetzig, Sterling Volunteers Executive Director, for a Sterling Live episode…

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