GUARDIAN GROUP
Until all are free from sex trafficking in the United States
Mission
To prevent and disrupt the sex trafficking of women and children while enabling partners to identify victims and predators in the United States.
Notes from the nonprofit
The only way to stop this crime is through a community-wide response. Our law enforcement partners have been relentless in their pursuit of these victims and predators despite every obstacle. Thank you to the hoteliers, healthcare workers, first responders, educators, and parents who sought out training to better protect their communities. We are grateful for the businesses, foundations, and granting agencies who have contributed financially to this fight. Our gratitude goes out to our Guardians, monthly donors, and one-time donors who have invested in our mission. Together, we are making a difference. Until All Are Free.
Ruling year
2007
Founder + CEO
Jeff Keith
Chief Operating Officer
Nate Prussian
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)
IRS filing requirement
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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. 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; 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 professionals 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. The goal of this program is for professionals 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.
Counter Trafficking Training
Specialized 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. It is completely free and exclusively available to law enforcement agencies/officers.
Intelligence Support
Guardian Group identifies US based victims of sex trafficking, through the proactive research of Publicly Available Information. Once identity is confirmed and corroborated, its compiled into a report and passed to law enforcement, at no charge.
Guardian Group stands ready, at law enforcement’s request, to provide online research support for their counter sex trafficking operations. Assisting with lead development and best practice recommendations, based on current trafficking tactics and trends.
Whether it is proactive or reactive support to law enforcement our PURSUIT® Team utilizes the Guardian Group developed I³EA® methodology to act as a nationwide force multiplier.
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.
PURSUIT®
People United Responsibly Suppressing Underage Illicit Trafficking
Our PURSUIT® Team is comprised of former elite military and intelligence professionals, that provide free services and training to Law Enforcement, enabling them to proactively pursue the crime of sex trafficking in the US.
PURSUIT® Team Volunteer Program
Put your OSINT skills towards a good cause!
The PURSUIT® – Volunteer Training & Assessment course consists of more than 10 hours of learning content, designed to give you a general understanding of what sex trafficking looks like in the United States.
Once you complete the course and receive your certification you will be invited to a community of similarly trained peers where you can help Guardian Group in identifying sex trafficked children online. Once the lead has been vetted, it is passed to an appropriate law enforcement partner based on the victim's age and location.
Where we work
Accreditations
Excellence in Giving 2022
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance 2022
WikiCharities 2022
Great Nonprofits 2022
America's Best Charities 2022
Awards
Nonprofit of the Year 2018
Bend Chamber of Commerce
Peoples Choice Award 2018
Bend Chamber of Commerce
External assessments
External reviews
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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
Context Notes
Sex trafficking lead development increased by 48% from over last year due to the addition of one analyst hired in late 2020.
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
Decreasing
Context Notes
Due to in-person training limitations in 2020-21 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?
Guardian Group's 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
Over the last few years, the need for a scalable solution to match the ever-increasing domestic trafficking problem has been in the forefront of our minds. In recent years, we have been focusing on the development of a program to help us meet this need, as the time has come to make this solution a reality. This new program will remain the top priority.
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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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
1) victims of sexual violence in the U.S. who are often minors; 2) law enforcement agencies that have limited resources; 3) community members, industry professionals & businesses who struggle to identify trafficking.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), 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 funders, Our community partners,
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive,
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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 5/18/2022
Mr. Samuel Donnelly
Jeff Keith
Founder/CEO
Scott Lauray
Northwest Business Group
Samuel Donnelly
Onebrief
Joe Sunwoo
Franklin Templeton
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
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 seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- 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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