Mission
To prevent and disrupt the sex trafficking of women and children while enabling partners to identify victims and predators in the United States.
Ruling year
2007
Founder + CEO
Jeff Keith
Main address
1900 NE 3rd Street Suite 106 #40
Bend, OR 97701 USA
EIN
72-1613750
NTEE code
Protection Against and Prevention of Neglect, Abuse, Exploitation (I70)
Child Abuse, Prevention of (I72)
Military/Veterans' Organizations (W30)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Human trafficking is universally recognized as a form of modern day slavery. And although it has long been viewed as a crime that occurs only in distant countries, the reality is that it affects every city and community in the United States. Sex Trafficking occurs in the shadows at an unprecedented scale! In the United States alone: - The average age of being forced into sex trafficking in the US is 15 years old. - 75% of survivors reported are being sold online. - 99% of traffickers are never prosecuted. - 83% of victims are US Citizens. - 25% of victims sold online, reported they saw more than 10 buyers per day.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Sector-specific Training and Consulting Program
Guardian Group has created comprehensive training and educational tools to teach personnel about sex trafficking and equip them to recognize and respond to suspected incidents. Personnel from the hospitality and healthcare sectors along with first responders and law enforcement officers are in a unique position to identify potential victims, thereby deterring future trafficking activities in their place of work with the proper training. Ultimately, the goal of this program is for personnel to be the eyes and ears that can recognize and respond to these crimes and to protect the business from inherent risks if and when an incident of human trafficking occurs.
Professional Law Enforcement Training
Specialized in-house training and consulting, designed to empower Law Enforcement, DAs and Task Forces to combat trafficking. Guardian Group is a unique organization designed to train Law Enforcement and assist them with developing and implementing comprehensive counter trafficking strategies. This training has clear, measurable goals, integrates leadership with planning, fuses operations and intelligence, and is designed for application specific to the client and their desired results.
Intelligence Support
Capture indicators of human trafficking and provide prosecution packets to the appropriate agencies for response, investigation and follow-up, satisfying the need for obtaining and disseminating actionable information to the appropriate agency or organization. Through our networked organization we will enable law enforcement to identify victims and traffickers.
Partnership Facilitation and Collaboration
Provides a local solution to the human trafficking problem, through organizing working groups to create a unified response system to counter sex trafficking and coordinating rescue and restorations for victims. Guardian Group is a collaborative team that provides resources, expertise, and information with the goal of maximizing the ability to identify victims and traffickers.
Where we work
Awards
Nonprofit of the Year 2018
Bend Chamber of Commerce
Peoples Choice Award 2018
Bend Chamber of Commerce
External assessments
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of first-time donors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of stings supported
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Victims and oppressed people
Related Program
Intelligence Support
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of sex trafficking leads developed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Victims and oppressed people
Related Program
Intelligence Support
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of sex trafficking victims identified
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Victims and oppressed people
Related Program
Intelligence Support
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of people trained
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Sector-specific Training and Consulting Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Due to in-person training limitations in 2020 an online course was developed exclusively for law enforcement. This combined with our revamped community and hotel courses will allow for scalability.
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our approach can best be described as “holistic”, as in our Offense and our Defense rely on each other to help bring victims justice. Through our offensive component, we change the way resource-constrained law enforcement agencies are able to respond to trafficking situations. Our defensive strategy utilizes the power of communities, trained to recognize and respond to potential trafficking. Empowering people to view their role in the solution to stopping sex trafficking will not only aid in preventing future victims, but also impact future generations.
Guardian Group is actively involved in assisting Law Enforcement in their pursuit, apprehension, prosecution and conviction of predators. We work constantly to stop perpetrators before they can act by providing free support to Law Enforcement throughout the entire process. Our Pursuit Team is comprised of former elite military and intelligence professionals who provide services and training to Law Enforcement cost-free, enabling them to proactively pursue the crime of sex trafficking in the US.
Our Defense Team is making a difference through ensuring our communities have the vital tools they need to prevent sex trafficking here in the United States. Our unique and leading-edge professional training targets all industries exposed to this horrific crime, including the hospitality and travel industries, healthcare and victim service providers, law enforcement, and other anti-trafficking organizations. These programs are research based and evidence-driven, informed by the insights of those with lived experience, and are kept up-to-date and comprehensive, designed to help community partners understand current trends, emerging practices in enforcement and investigation, and the challenges associated with serving victims.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Through our offensive component, we change the way resource-constrained law enforcement agencies are able to respond to trafficking situations.
Our defensive strategy utilizes the power of communities, trained to recognize and respond to potential trafficking.
This fight is successful because of the support and collaboration of multiple partners. Together this network of committed individuals and organizations has impacted the lives of hundreds of victims and has prevented countless others.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Guardian Group team draws upon decades of leadership and experience to achieve effects against human trafficking at the national level. We collaborate through our strategic partnerships with worldwide, world-class organizations that understand the social and business benefits of tackling this exponentially increasing social injustice.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
- Created and implemented effective information gathering and dissemination practices to the capacity of law enforcement and prosecution teams
- Delivered professional recognition and response training for law enforcement, the hospitality and healthcare industries, task forces, victim service providers and anti-trafficking organizations throughout the country
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Paper surveys, Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person), Case management notes, Community meetings/Town halls, Constituent (client or resident, etc.) advisory committees, Suggestion box/email,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Guardian Group prides itself on keeping current and up-to-date on the problem of human trafficking in the US, as well as best practices and solutions to deter it. We invite, and even require feedback during our in-person and online trainings, which have been integrated into the updates sent to those we serve as well as into newer versions of Guardian Group trainings.
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
The people we serve, Our staff, Our board, Our community partners,
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback,
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GUARDIAN GROUP
Board of directorsas of 8/30/2021
Mr. Samuel Donnelly
Jeff Keith
Founder/CEO
Scott Lauray
Northwest Business Group
Samuel Donnelly
StratOps Patterson
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
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