ASDD along with five other companies in the western United States with similar dual missions, founded the Secure Document Alliance (SDA) with the goals offering employment opportunities to people with disabilities and serving customers on a national level. This has led to continued growth for ASDD.Īlso three years ago we realized that ASDD could not compete for many contracts because we were just a small local company and most of the larger organizations that we wanted to do business with have a national presence and national contracting. Three years ago we were successful in our partnered bid (with Beacon Secure in Tucson) and secured the document destruction contract for the State of Arizona. Through that growth we learned and positioned ourselves to be able to successfully service larger and more complicated accounts. We focused on customer service, acting as a technical assistance provider and flexibility and over the course of two years we had a nice small business started. We discovered that small business was largely ignored by most document destruction companies so we made the decision to focus on growing our business through meeting the needs of small business. They offered us one small government contract and a grant for that would help with business start-up but made it very clear that we would need to grow the company commercially ourselves.Īfter completing an environmental scan of the business environment we decided that there was an opportunity in the document destruction business. In 2003 we were approached by an organization called Ability One that asked if we were interested in beginning a document destruction business. TCH is a non-profit organization that since 1967 has been dedicated to employing, providing services for and empowering more than 1,000 Arizonans living with developmental disabilities. ASDD Document Destruction is a division of The Centers for Habilitation - TCH.

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