Our Core Values

1. We can make a difference, and we do.
2. We treat all with honesty, good faith, and candor: each other, our funders, our business partners, and our clients.
3. We respect the work-life balance, so that we can achieve our goals in both.
4. We exercise good and appropriate stewardship of the Federal funds to which we have access.
5. We conduct our research following the highest ethical standards (including the Belmont Principles in regards to human subjects).
6. We value and believe in the open-source software movement and the open-access publishing movement. We choose open-source software whenever we can, and we prefer to publish in open-access journals.
7. We promote environmental sustainability by minimizing the impact of our daily activities. Both individual employees and the company as a whole have many opportunities to implement sustainable practices that encourage reduction of pollution and energy consumption, recycling, and other sensible uses of natural resources.
   We participate in Carbonfund.org's CarbonFree™ Small Business program to combat global warming.

In support of our organization and its core values, we strive to

1. Provide a supportive physical environment as well as appropriate technology and information;
2. Support continuous learning, presenting professional-development opportunities to staff whenever possible; and
3. Demonstrate commitment to work-life balance through fair compensation and a benefits package that recognizes that staff members have lives, interests, and families outside the workplace.