Membership Benefits

The Loss Prevention Foundation is committed to you getting tremendous value for your membership, but we also encourage you to become involved. Your participation, input and feedback are the best ways for us to grow and evolve, which in turn provides all members with increased value.

Benefits of LPF Membership

• Easy way to demonstrate your support for the foundation
• Membership in your industry’s membership organization
• Add Loss Prevention Foundation Member to your resume
• Network professionally with other members
• Access to career center-personal assessments, brain teasers
• Access to educational center-webcasts, professional speaker series, bookstore, whitepapers & articles
• 10% savings discount on certification coursework (only availble when paying in full)
• Monthly membership newsletter
• Opportunity to get involved in LPF committees

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Career Center:
The career center provides a single location for obtaining relevant, convenient and educational information on professional development & career planning thus making it easier for you, the individual, to maximize your potential. It is important for each individual to take responsibility for their own professional development and the tools offered in the career center will help you do just that. The following are the components of the career center:

• Personal Assessment section – This section gives you the opportunity for self discovery. It allows you to evaluate yourself and identify your personality traits, as well as your strengths and weaknesses by using several of the most widely used on-line assessment tools. Use this section to understand yourself better and use this information to maximize your career potential. This section includes 11 different categories of assessments and 25 different individual types.
• Career Plan Development section– This offering is designed to help the loss prevention professional develop and maintain a great career plan, thus achieving the most success possible with your current company, short and long term. This section even includes a career planning/goal setting worksheet.
• Industry Resources – The Industry Resource section is the most comprehensive listing of educational resources for the loss prevention professional you will find. (over 250)
• Brain Teasers – This section offers members the opportunity to sharpen their minds with several brain teasers and quizzes designed to keep minds active.
• College Center – This database offers members a comprehensive list of all industry related academic degree programs (Associate, Bachelor, Masters and on-line) related to the loss prevention field. (almost 800 degree related programs with over 42 on-line)
• Retail Internship Database – The retail internship database will allow for companies whose professionals are members of the Foundation to post all of their internship opportunities. Once populated the database will serve as a resource to attract students and others interested in obtaining an internship.
• Job Descriptions and Organization Charts – coming in Fall/Winter 2008.
  

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Education Center
The education center offers members the opportunity to stay up to date with the latest in loss prevention, as well as, enable them to delve into other topics of interest.

• Educational Library – With our partner BarnesandNoble.com the Foundation has created a bookstore that features a selection of over 500 titles, selected by industry professionals with you in mind. It is a time saving way for you to see titles picked for your development. Topics range from personal development and leadership to loss prevention techniques. The library also features a wide selection of articles on topics similar to those in the bookstore section. This library is the best source of information for the loss prevention professional that you can find in any one place.

• Webcasts - This section features 10 PowerPoint presentations with audio, keeping members up to date on the latest in loss prevention. These webcasts are multi-leveled presentations given by various professionals from our industry on a wide variety of relevant topics. The presentations are unique in that they can be viewed whenever and wherever a member chooses to do so.
  
  To view a sample webcast, click on the link below;

“Time Management for Investigators” by George Perez, Director of Loss Prevention Operations, Walgreen Co.

Some of the others that you will find are as follows:

• "National Burglary Rings Distribution / Warehousing" by Glenn Master, Office Depot
• " Cargo Security Solutions: Protecting Goods In-Transit" by Nick Erdmann, Transport Security, Inc.
• “Retail Pharmacy Diversion - Key Metrics” by George Perez, Director of Loss Prevention Operations, Walgreen Co.
• “Organized Retail Crime: An Industry Approach” by Alan Greggo, AVP Loss Prevention - Luxottica Retail, and Greg W Braun, Director Loss Prevention, Luxottica Retail.
• “Building an Effective Awareness/Training Program” by Millie Kresevich, Senior Regional Loss Prevention Manager, Luxottica Retail
• “Developing an Effective Key Control Program” by
  Cita Doyle, Director of Sales & Marketing, InstaKey Security Systems*
• “Introduction to OSHA and the CFR” by Zack Koutsandreas, OSHA Authorized Trainer, Ergoworks Consulting, LLC
• “The Intersection of Employment Law and Security” by Kurt Stanberry, MBA, JD, Attorney, Professor of Legal Studies, The University of Houston Downtown
• “Hiring Off-Duty Law Enforcement Officers for the Private Sector: Factors to Consider” by Richard H. Hill, The University of Houston Downtown

Other webcast topics that have been suggested and/or are in development include:

• Business Dynamics
• Workplace Violence
• Business Ethics
• Expense Account Abuse - the do's and don'ts
• Data Security
• Gift Card Fraud
• Exception Reporting
• Public/Private Partnerships
• Leadership Development

• White papers - In this area, you will find an assortment of more than 135 educational industry whitepapers and other resource documents that the Foundation has collected from various sources on a wide range of topics.

• Presentation Archive -The section is a compilation of more than 30 presentations that were given by leading retail professionals, vendors and industry experts at various meetings and/or seminars over the past several years. These presentations have been sorted by topic and unlike our Webcasts; each of these presentations has been adapted to PDF form and does not contain audio.

• Professional Speaker Series - In partnership with Keppler Speakers, the Foundation gives members access to full presentations by dynamic speakers with compelling personalities. They share captivating stories that are sure to influence you as you continue to strive for personal and professional success. Some of the speakers that are featured include:
  • Frank Abignale - World's Foremost Authority on Fraud and Identity Theft
  • Frank Picciotto - FDNY Chief and Highest Ranking Firefighter to Survive the World Trade Center Collapse
  • Gene Kranz - NASA Flight Control Director and Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
  • James Bradley - Best-Selling Author of Flags of Our Fathers
  • Ken Schmidt - Former Director of Communications for Harley-Davidson
  • Kirk Lippold - Commander of the USS Cole

The Foundation will continue to add many more presentations, webcasts and whitepapers to our "members only" Education Center over the coming months. If you are interested in developing one of these educational tools please feel free to contact Kelly Durham.

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Best Practices Center:
The best source of information can be your peers, and with that in mind the Foundation’s Best Practices center is designed to gather information from LP professionals in several different formats, all in one place.

• Information Boards – The Foundation’s Information Boards can be a great way to get and share information with your peers. Featuring distinct subject matters, members can post questions, get answers and share information.
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• Tips from the field –Gathering and sharing learning’s from the front line can be an invaluable resource. This tool is designed to give members the opportunity to share new solutions from the field.
• Travel Resource section gives individuals’ access to all the resources you could possibly need while you are traveling or preparing for travel.
• Survey section – The survey section will feature best practice surveys created by members for members. It will also feature surveys designed to help individuals, like our compensation survey due out in the 2009.

Membership database:
Upon joining the Loss Prevention Foundation you will have access to our member database meaning all of your fellow members in the Loss Prevention Foundation can be a resource for you. What a great way to network with other industry professionals!

Loss Prevention Magazine
Receive a free copy of the industry leading publication, Loss Prevention Magazine.

Savings Center:
Save on the Foundation’s certification programs, as well as other programs. By joining the foundation, you can save 10% on either of our certification programs, making it even easier to take advantage of these wonderful educational tools.

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