human trafficking survivors
Hospitality Leaders Provide a Grant to Help Expand Unique Employment Program for Human Trafficking Survivors
Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST) | August 16, 2023
SEATTLE, Wash. – The nonprofit Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST) has received one of the inaugural No Room for Trafficking Survivor Fund grants, awarded by the AHLA Foundation. The grant will support the development of a strategy to expand BEST’s Safe Jobs Collaborative—a unique program that creates pathways to employment for human trafficking survivors. The Safe Jobs Collaborative is the first program of its kind in western Washington, helping provide jobs for human trafficking survivors and youth who are at-risk for trafficking. The program provides custom and individualized support to help participants transition ...
AHLA Foundation Announces $500,000 in Grant Awards From No Room for Trafficking Survivor Fund
No Room for Trafficking | July 20, 2023
Inaugural grants underscore the hotel industry’s ongoing commitment and work to prevent human trafficking and support survivors WASHINGTON (July 20, 2023)-- AHLA Foundation has awarded $500,000 in inaugural No Room for Trafficking (NRFT) Survivor Fund grants to four community-based organizations that serve human trafficking survivors. The 2023 NRFT Survivor Fund grant recipients will provide and promote resources to build survivors’ stability and self-sufficiency—from childcare and housing to transportation, career training and employment opportunities. The 2023 grantees are: Safe House Project, Emergency Services Program ...
AHLA Foundation Establishes No Room for Trafficking Advisory
AHLA Foundation | July 17, 2023
WASHINGTON (July 13, 2023) – The AHLA Foundation today announced its inaugural No Room for Trafficking (NRFT) Advisory Council, which includes top leaders from across the hotel and lodging industry. AHLA Foundation’s No Room for Trafficking program aims to unite the industry around collective anti-trafficking efforts that meet the needs of today’s hospitality employers, employees, and the communities they serve. In their role, NRFT Advisory Council members help champion and shape the hotel industry’s unified efforts to support human trafficking survivors with critical resources on their path toward empowerment and self-sufficie...
