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 sources to assist assist human trafficking survivors on their path ahead. This 12 months’s Survivor Fund grantees had 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 little one 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 will obtain when the business comes collectively,” AHLA Basis President Anna Blue shared. “This 12 months, we had been in a position to 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 growth, coaching, and profession placement companies.
- Empowered Community: Helps survivors by addressing societal limitations by way of advocacy and tactical funding that propels survivors towards financial freedom.
- New Associates New Life: Offers trauma-informed counseling, case administration, financial empowerment companies, and entry to emergency companies.
- Rebecca Bender Initiative: Equips legislation enforcement, neighborhood leaders, professionals, and households to establish and correctly useful resource these affected by trafficking.
- Restore, NYC, Inc.: Offers job placement, entrepreneurship, and profession growth companies.
- College of Maryland SAFE Middle: Offers survivor-centered and trauma-informed companies that empower trafficking survivors to heal and reclaim their lives.
The full awarded additionally consists of transitional assist to 2023-2024 grantee organizations Protected Home Undertaking 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 assist the event, empowerment, and financial independence of survivors.
AHLA Basis just lately shared quantitative and qualitative information 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, stated, “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 assist companies, private help or employment help to human trafficking survivors.”
The NRFT Advisory Council and Survivor Fund supporting corporations embrace Aimbridge, Alternative Motels, Prolonged Keep America, G6 Hospitality, Hilton World Basis, Hyatt Motels Basis, IHG Motels & Resorts, The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Basis, Marriott Worldwide, Actual Hospitality Group, Crimson Roof, Sonesta, Summit Basis, Imaginative and prescient Hospitality Group, and Wyndham Motels & Resorts.
