How To Do Nonprofit Background Checks
Jim Castagnera
Are Your Background Checks Legally Compliant? Ensure Your Clients, Employees, and Volunteers Are Safe
Nonprofits are eager to resume their missions with new vigor. Savvy executives and HR professionals recognize that legal background checks of paid and volunteer staffers are crucial to protecting their organizations from mission failure, public relations crises, and lawsuits. The loss of donor and board support is just one disastrous outcome when employees or volunteers run amok.
To bring the right people on board, you need to know when and how to conduct background checks. The right background checks for senior management candidates may not be the same as for more junior staffers, and both may differ from what is required to vet your volunteers.
Prolific attorney and employment law expert Dr. Jim Castagnera will explain how to ensure the safety of your stakeholders and treat applicants fairly. You will learn how to avoid the negative publicity that inevitably results from poor hiring decisions.
Course Outline
Meet the Expert
Jim Castagnera
Dr. James Ottavio Castagnera, Esq. holds an M.A. in Journalism from Kent State University, and a J.D. and Ph.D. (American Studies) from Case Western Reserve University. He worked 10 years as a labor, employment, and intellectual-property attorney with Saul Ewing and 23 years as associate provost & legal counsel for academic affairs at Rider University, where in 2018 he received the university’s highest annual award for distinguished service. He also did stints as a full-time law professor at UT-Austin and Widener University Law School.
Having retired from Rider in 2019, he currently is the President of Dr. Jim’s One-Stop HR Shop, a freelance-writing/editing, webinar and training company in the HR space, and CEO of the International Artificial Intelligence Association, a think tank dedicated to understanding the impacts of Generative AI. He has 25 published books to his credit.
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Training Includes
The How To Do Nonprofit Background Checks course includes the following:
Two Year Course Access
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- Course access for 2 full years
- All live sessions include access to the on-demand recording post live session
Class Experience
Live sessions are small and focused to support questions and discussion. Self-paced on-demand courses allow you to move through the material on your own schedule.
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Attendance Certificate
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