myBackCheck.com Makes Volunteering Easier

Volunteering within your community can be more rewarding than once thought. In addition to making a positive contribution to the local neighbourhood, other possible advantages of volunteering can include establishing new business contacts, exploring opportunities within new industries, learning new skills, resume building, and sharing your personal and work experience with younger members of the community. Volunteering also helps foster an inclusive and engaging community environment.

There are approximately 175, 000 registered Canadian charities and non-profit organizations, many of which rely on volunteers for logistical support, fundraising, consulting, administrative tasks, and special projects. CharityVillage provides listings of organizations and volunteer opportunities from all across Canada, offering a wide array of volunteering options.

Currently, industry best practices have been adopted by many volunteer organizations and dictate that volunteers complete a criminal record check before being offered a position. As an alternative to driving to the local police station to complete a criminal record check, volunteer applicants have the option of using myBackCheck.com, which streamlines the criminal record check process and provides a secure method for both volunteers and volunteer organizations to complete criminal record checks. Potential volunteers can create an account on myBackCheck.com from the comfort of their own home. After submitting the appropriate documentation and consent, the results will be provided to the applicant online with the option to share results with a prospective volunteer organization. Sharing the results online through myBackCheck.com’s secure web portal protects against forgery attempts as results are transmitted directly from myBackCheck.com to the volunteer organization.