What is DataShield?

DataShield is a division of Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin dedicated to confidential document destruction. DataShield is a secure facility with Chain of Custody contracts with its customers and provides a professional document disposal service that complies with prevailing legislation -- Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and others -- that controls the way in which confidential information is handled.

What is NAID?

The National Association for Information Destruction, Inc. (NAID) is the international, non-profit trade association of the information destruction industry. Its members, including DataShield, are companies and individuals involved in providing information destruction services. NAID's mission is to educate business, industry and government of the importance of destroying discarded information and the value of contract destruction services. Suppliers of world's best products and services for the information destruction industry are also NAID Members.

Goodwill DataShield is NAID certified, as a plant-based operation endorsed for paper/printed media destruction.

What does ISO 9001 Registered mean?

Goodwill Commercial Services, Work Services, including Goodwill DataShield, and Laundry are ISO 9001:2000 registered for their quality management system. ISO 9001:2000 is an industry standard of quality certification that provides a model on which an organization may build an effective quality management system.

What is Goodwill?

Goodwill Industries of Southeastern WI is the largest of more than 170 Goodwill organizations in North America. More than 3,300 Goodwill employees work in over 40 locations throughout 23 counties in southeastern Wisconsin and metropolitan Chicago. Goodwill's mission is to provide training, employment, and supportive services for people with disabilities or disadvantages who seek greater independence. In 2006 we served 11,389 individuals, all striving to overcome disabilities or disadvantages.

Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc., has been providing services since 1919. Goodwill pursues and achieves its mission by operating diverse businesses: participant programs and services, retail and salvage sales, industrial subcontracts and laundry, and service contracts with the government.

Selected Goodwill programs and services have been accredited by CARF, the Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission, since 1972.