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- EIN 47-2455116
- (206) 850-4780
- Po Box 8295 Tacoma WA 98419-0295 USA
- ciertoglobal.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Employment Preparation & Procurement, Job Training
Mission: The "centro de investigacion, entrenamiento y reclutamiento del trabajador organizado" (the "center for research, training and recruitment of organized workers, or "cierto") organizes farmworkers around the world to collaborate with their employers and together engage the global supply chain to identify and implement opportunities to create value - to the benefit of farmworkers, their employers, the companies who purchase the farm's products, and the consumers who enjoy those products. This in turn will benefit workers, employers, retailers and consumers in the united states and abroad.
Programs: Cierto's most significant program accomplishments for 2016 was the recruitment and training of workers to farms in california for the strawberry harvest during the months of april 2016 to june 2016. This was the first h2a process that cierto has conducted and was the first time we were able to begin to prove our concept of clean recruitment, training farmworkers and evaluating our first recruitment process. Throughout this first process we were able to create a dialogue with workers, management and farm ownership. This helped to further strengthen our model. We conducted evaluations with workers to determine how we can improve our training and recruitment practices with the purpose of benefitting farmworkers who come to harvest crops for the american public. We also made sure farmworkers understood their training, evaluated how to continue to support them moving out of poverty, creating a more stable labor market, and helping to empower them by improving their relationships with agricultural employers ("growers") and other high-level actors in the international agricultural industry. From this initial h2a recruitment, cierto has been able to seek other contracts and grow its program to service various farms and ensure in all of its areas of work, cierto has ensured that it's recruitment practices have been verified and are absent of fraud, trafficking, debt peonage, slavery, and other problems.