Protect and Serve
Each supplier may have lacked different components, but they all ended with the same result: a QCA-accreditation and comprehensive policies and procedures in place that varied depending on their products, distributing markets and the regulations that apply to each.
"I think each of the founding members did an awful lot," said Whitney, who is overseeing Leed's third accreditation process. "And if you talk to any of us, we'll all freely admit that while we thought we did a lot, as we went through the QCA process, we all found areas that we needed to tighten up, and it made us stronger companies as a result."
Amanda L. Cole is the editor-in-chief of NonProfit PRO. She was formerly editor-in-chief of special projects for NonProfit PRO's sister publication, Promo Marketing. Contact her at acole@napco.com.