FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS

Ethics, compliance, integrity.

Leaders of diverse faith-based organizations call upon Alcalaw in times of crisis to provide guidance. We appreciate the challenges that faith-based organizations face in addressing and preventing misconduct, and work with leaders of all faiths to manage risk, communicate effectively and support organizational change.

Faith-Based Organizations

Services

  • With trauma-informed practices as the backdrop, our team advises clients on crisis response, addressing legal, strategic and communication issues.

  • We leverage our team's experience as high-stakes investigators, former state and federal prosecutors and organizational crisis advisors to assess the practices of faith-based organizations to provide impartial feedback and guidance on best practices.

  • For faith-based organizations responding to reports of harm, discrimination and fraud, our team draws on decades of high-stakes sensitive investigation experience to conduct interviews, gather evidence, find facts and effectively communicate them to leadership. We know how to ask difficult questions and discreetly gather evidence.

  • Alcalaw offers faith-based organizations guidance on questions of ethics that have legal implications.

  • Alcalaw serves as a third-party reporting mechanism where staff or constituents can raise concerns about misconduct.

  • Conducted historical investigation into ethics system of the Central Conference of American Rabbis which resulted in public report

  • Conducted historical investigation into allegations of wrongdoing by a religious leader

  • Represented faith-based organization responding to allegation of sexual misconduct by lay leader

  • Counseled religious organization on reporting requirements related to allegation of sexual misconduct by staff member

  • Managed external reporting hotline for employees of international faith-based organization

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