Afrigather WASHINGTON, D.C.—AHLA Basis introduced the 2024-2025 No Room for Trafficking (NRFT) Survivor Fund grantees, eight community-based organizations that present companies and assets to assist help human-trafficking survivors on their path ahead. This 12 months’s Survivor Fund grantees have been introduced on the third annual NRFT Summit, hosted on United Nation’s World Day In opposition to Trafficking in Individuals, a worldwide marketing campaign urging motion to finish youngster trafficking.
“The No Room for Trafficking Survivor Fund is a primary for our business, and already, it’s a strong instance of collective influence and what we are able to obtain when the business comes collectively,” AHLA Basis President Anna Blue shared. “This 12 months, we have been capable of double the full awarded funds from $500,000 in 2023 to $1M in 2024 and invite over 40 community-based organizations to use.”
2024-2025 Survivor Fund grantees embrace:
- 3 Strands World: Helps survivors with workforce improvement, coaching, and profession placement companies.
- Empowered Community: Helps survivors by addressing societal limitations via advocacy and tactical funding that propels survivors towards financial freedom.
- New Pals New Life: Offers trauma-informed counseling, case administration, financial empowerment companies, and entry to emergency companies.
- Rebecca Bender Initiative: Equips regulation enforcement, neighborhood leaders, professionals, and households to determine and correctly useful resource these affected by trafficking.
- Restore, NYC, Inc.: Offers job placement, entrepreneurship, and profession improvement companies.
- College of Maryland SAFE Heart: Offers survivor-centered and trauma-informed companies that empower trafficking survivors to heal and reclaim their lives.
The overall awarded additionally consists of transitional help to 2023-2024 grantee organizations Protected Home Challenge and Companies Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST).
Along with the Survivor Fund awards to community-based organizations that present direct companies to survivors, the AHLA Basis additionally awarded microgrants for particular materials purchases to 10 organizations that help the event, empowerment, and financial independence of survivors.
AHLA Basis just lately shared quantitative and qualitative knowledge demonstrating the influence made by the inaugural NRFT Survivor Fund grantees in 2023-2024. In a single 12 months, the NRFT Survivor Fund supported almost 650 survivors with workforce coaching, employment preparedness, and emergency exit companies.
The NRFT Advisory Council Co-Chairs Joan Bottarini, chief monetary officer at Hyatt, and Farah Bhayani, common counsel and chief compliance officer at G6 Hospitality, mentioned, “On behalf of the NRFT Advisory Council, we’re honored to have a good time the community-based organizations who’re offering much-needed emergency and security help companies, private support or employment help to human trafficking survivors.”
The NRFT Advisory Council and Survivor Fund supporting firms embrace Aimbridge, Selection Resorts, Prolonged Keep America, G6 Hospitality, Hilton World Basis, Hyatt Resorts Basis, IHG Resorts & Resorts, The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Basis, Marriott Worldwide, Actual Hospitality Group, Pink Roof, Sonesta, Summit Basis, Imaginative and prescient Hospitality Group, and Wyndham Resorts & Resorts.
