Look1st.org helps you check whether an organization protects the people who depend on it — before you trust them with your time, your money, or the people you love.
A public commitment
Make it official.
Take the badge, and use it to point the organizations you care about toward getting protected.
Why Look1st.org exists
Look1st.org began with a group of mothers who discovered that organizations they'd trusted with their children weren't doing what it takes to protect them. They wanted one trusted place to look first — so they advised us on building an effective solution. Look1st.com came later, once organizations started asking for the same system for the people they serve.
Mission
To help people identify organizations that warrant their trust — and encourage organizations to better protect and engage the people who depend on them.
Principal Objectives
Inform
Enable people to understand how well organizations protect and engage the people who depend on them.
Identify
Enable people to identify organizations that warrant their trust based on how well they protect and engage the people who depend on them.
Encourage
Enable people to encourage organizations to strengthen how they protect and engage the people who depend on them.
Across every objective
Research. Inform. Measure. Improve.
Continually research legal requirements, research findings, standards, practices, constituent expectations, and organizational performance; communicate what we learn clearly; measure effectiveness; and continually improve our information and resources.
Guiding Idea
People Look 1st.
Help people understand, identify, and encourage — while keeping protection and engagement where they belong: as the organizational practices upon which trust is based.
Look1st.org is owned and operated by Look 1st, Inc. Look1st.org serves individuals. Look1st.com serves organizational leaders. Comments and questions are encouraged — sent to a person, not a form: Megan Summers, MeganSummers@Look1st.org.
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