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About CDIA The Consumer Data Industry Association. is an international trade association, founded in 1906, that represents consumer information companies that provide fraud prevention and risk management products, credit and mortgage reports, tenant and employment screening services, check fraud and verification services, and collection services. CDIA represents the consumer credit reporting information industry before state and federal legislators. It also represents the industry before the media in consumer credit reporting matters. CDIA sets industry standards and provides business and professional education for its members. It also provides educational materials for consumers regarding their credit rights and how consumer credit reporting agencies can better serve their needs. Membership: Over 200 American credit reporting agencies, mortgage reporting companies, collection services companies, check services companies, tenant screening companies and employment reporting companies. Industry: One billion credit cards are in use in the United States today. A similar number of consumer credit reports are issued annually in the United States. Four and a half billion pieces of data are entered monthly into credit records. Each of the consumer credit reporting systems Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion maintains 200 million credit files, which are used by independent credit reporting agencies across the United States.

National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration is an institutional membership organization. Located in District of Columbia, the firm specializes in promoting public service education. The organization has membership with U.S. university programs in public affairs, public policy, public administration and nonprofit management. National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration also provides a range of mentor programs to its members. In addition, the organization conducts international projects that focus on strengthening democratic governance abroad through creating networks and providing technical assistance.

Business Executives for National Security, a nationwide, nonpartisan organization, is one of the primary channels through which senior business executives assist in enhancing the nation's security. BENS, based in Washington, D.C., also has branches in New York City, Atlanta, Dallas and Northern California. Its members have used their business experience to find practical solutions to national security challenges since 1982. The organization focuses on a variety of national security problems, including developing new tools to combat a category of new security threats that cannot be deterred or negotiated and finding resources to reshape and rebuild United States military forces for the 21st century. Bens played a major role in developing the process for closing obsolete military bases, freeing up billions of dollars in savings and allowing local communities to put unneeded military facilities to more productive use.