📖 Faith-based camps
Vacation Bible School is one of the most volunteer-intensive weeks a church runs — dozens of teachers, crew leaders, and teen helpers with children all day, often pulled together at the last minute. VolunteerBadge screens every one of them for $5 with biometric identity verification, fast enough to clear the whole roster before opening day.
A single week can need 50–100 volunteers across every age group — far more people than your church screens the rest of the year combined.
Sign-ups land in the final days. You need a process that clears a last-minute helper in hours — not a two-week mail-in background check.
Send one link to every VBS volunteer — directors, teachers, crew leaders, and teen helpers. No accounts to set up for them in advance.
Each volunteer confirms their identity biometrically and signs FCRA consent from their phone — the step that stops someone using a borrowed or fake name.
Nationwide criminal, county confirmation, and a 50-state sex-offender registry search run automatically. You watch the roster turn green in real time.
Anyone not cleared is flagged before VBS week starts, so every adult in a classroom has a documented, current background check on file.
Yes — and "we know them" is exactly the assumption abuse-prevention training warns against. Your insurer, denomination safe-church policy, and most state mandated-reporter rules expect a documented background check on every adult and teen volunteer working with children, familiar faces included.
That is the exact problem VolunteerBadge is built for. You send one invite link to your whole team, each person verifies and consents from their phone in a couple of minutes, and most checks return same-day. A roster of 80 can be cleared in days, not weeks.
$5 per volunteer — the same FCRA-compliant, identity-verified check whether it is your VBS director or a teenage helper. No subscription required to run them.
Yes. Each cleared volunteer keeps a re-verifiable badge they can carry into next year’s VBS, your youth ministry, or any other program, so you are not re-screening the same people every season.
How It Works
We stripped every unnecessary step. Here's what running a volunteer background check actually looks like.
Create a volunteer application in minutes. FCRA disclosure language is embedded automatically — applicants sign digitally, you stay compliant from day one.
No charge to create applications or collect signatures.
Always freeThe moment they submit, we pull their actual address history and cross-reference it. Any gaps or addresses they 'forgot' get flagged before you spend a single credit.
No credits used. Catches incomplete applications early.
Always freeOne click searches county courts, sex offender registries across all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC. Plain English results with FCRA guidance included.
One credit per check. No hidden fees.
$5 per checkVolunteerBadge is the only volunteer screening platform that ties a real, verified identity to every application: a biometric face match against a government photo ID, then triangulated against the SSN trace and address history behind the check. A borrowed clean identity can't get through.
Biometric facial match
A live liveness selfie — proof a real person is present, not a photo.
Government photo ID
The selfie is matched face-to-face against their official ID document.
SSN + address triangulation
Identity cross-checked against the SSN trace and address history on the report.
Enterprise-grade verification at a nonprofit price. The same rigor banks use — built into every $5 check.
Invite your VBS team today and walk in with every volunteer cleared. $5 each, no subscription.
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