Stronger communities start with fairness and safety
Expanding opportunity for justice-impacted individuals while protecting the people and platforms that communities depend on.
Advancing fairness and safety together
Fairness and safety reinforce each other. Expanding opportunity for justice-impacted people helps strengthen communities, just as protecting people from fraud, exploitation, and abuse helps preserve economic security. Strong communities require both.
That belief shapes both what we build and how we show up in the world—from products that help organizations make informed decisions to programs that expand opportunity and deepen community impact.
Why this matters
80M
Americans have an arrest or conviction record
$87B
annual economic loss due to barriers to employment
$158.3B
annual estimated cost of fraud and scams to US consumers
5x
Increase in consumer fraud losses since 2020
A pledge for the future
Checkr has committed to Pledge 1%, pledging to donate one percent of our product, one percent of our equity, and one percent of our profits towards advancing fair chance hiring.
Our corporate foundation, Checkr.org, provides grants and resources to further community impact in the areas of fairness and safety.
What we do
Our commitment to fairness and safety isn't just reflected in the products we build—it shows up in how our people engage with the communities around them. From creating career pathways to showing up directly for those reentering society, Checkr employees are part of the work.
Our apprenticeship program
A 12-month earn-and-learn program hosted by Checkr that provides job training and formal learning programs to create career pathways for justice-impacted individuals.
Volunteering
Checkr employees have 20 hours of Volunteer Time Off (VTO) each year to engage with community partner organizations making an impact in our focus areas. From coaching and tutoring at correctional facilities, to mock interviews, our people take time to get proximate to the communities we serve.
Reentry simulation
Take a moment to walk in the shoes of someone leaving prison and reentering society. This thought-provoking experience will both enlighten and challenge your perceptions around justice-impacted individuals and the obstacles they tackle while settling into life post-incarceration.
Fairness and safety are embedded in our platform
Unblock your hiring funnel
Checkr Assess helps employers build custom adjudication filters that only surface reportable charges that you flag as relevant so you can increase consistency and reduce potential bias. Plus, you'll speed adjudication and lower compliance risk.
Detect fraud without adding friction
Our fraud detection suite brings together identity verification, PII misuse detection, AI resume fraud detection, and internal blocklists—so your team can spot risk early, review every candidate against the same signals, and keep qualified people moving.
Give candidates a voice
With candidate stories, your candidates can share additional context around their records, prior circumstances, and efforts they've made to better themselves directly within the platform. Empowering your candidates to tell their own story is a huge step toward a fairer future.
Checkr.org
The mission of Checkr.org, our foundation, is to build stronger communities by advancing fairness and safety through fair chance hiring and by protecting people from fraud, abuse, and exploitation.
Make fair and safe decisions, every time
Checkr delivers fast, accurate answers to inform the decisions that matter most—like hiring someone, approving a loan, insuring a driver, or choosing a tenant.