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The Human Trafficking Institute exists to decimate modern slavery at its source by empowering police and prosecutors to stop traffickers. Working inside criminal justice systems, the Institute provides the embedded experts, world-class training, investigative resources, and evidence-based research necessary to free victims.

ATEST
Awareness Hub / NationalDescription

Contact: terry.fitzpatrick@freetheslaves.net
Phone: 202-370-3625

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: No

The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) is a U.S. based coalition that advocates for solutions to prevent and end all forms of human trafficking and modern slavery around the world.

Centro de los Derechos del Migrante CDM
Specific Group / Mexico and USA Description

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone: (410) 783-0236

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

CDM supports Mexico-based migrant workers to defend and protect their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the United States.

Contact: workers@ciw-online.org
Phone: 239-657-8311

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

CIW is a community-based farm worker organization headquartered in Immokalee, Florida, and has aided in the liberation of more than 1,000 workers from modern-day slavery.

Contact: info@castla.org
Phone: 888-KEY-2-FREE (888-539-2373)

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

CAST, based in Los Angeles, provides comprehensive social and legal services to survivors of all forms of human trafficking in the United States. It also conducts extensive outreach, advocacy, and training efforts based on a survivors-centered approach to ending modern-day slavery.

Free the Slaves
Survivors / California/USA Description

Contact: info@freetheslaves.net
Phone: 202-775-7480

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

Free the Slaves liberates slaves, and changes the economic, legal and social conditions that allow modern slavery to exist. Through innovative grassroots community organizing projects, rigorous evaluation and groundbreaking research, targeted advocacy, and compelling communications and public engagement, Free the Slaves is showing the world that ending slavery is possible.

Human Trafficking Institute
Awareness / National/Int Description

Contact: contact@traffickinginstitute.org
Phone: (703)-644-6900

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

The Human Trafficking Institute exists to decimate modern slavery at its source by empowering police and prosecutors to stop traffickers. Working inside criminal justice systems, the Institute provides the embedded experts, world-class training, investigative resources, and evidence-based research necessary to free victims.

Contact: member@nn4youth.org
Phone: 202-783-7949

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

The National Network for Youth (NN4Y) is the nation’s leading organization advocating at the federal level to educate the public and policymakers about the needs of homeless and disconnected youth. We are a membership organization of service providers, state agencies, coalitions, advocates and individuals who work towards our vision of a world where vulnerable and homeless youth can escape the dangers of the streets and access safety, youth-appropriate services, hope and healing.

Polaris
Awareness / NationalDescription

Contact: info@polarisproject.org
Phone: (202)-790-6300

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

Polaris is a leading nonprofit organization committed to combating human trafficking and modern slavery in the United States. By successfully pushing for stronger federal and state laws, operating the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline (1-888-373-7888), conducting trainings, and providing vital services to victims of trafficking, Polaris creates long-term solutions that move our society closer to a world without slavery.

Safe Horizon
Survivors / New York/USA Description

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone: 1-800-621-HOPE

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

Safe Horizon, based in New York City, is the nation’s leading victim assistance organization and helps more than 250,000 people each year who have been affected by child abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking or other violent crimes.

Solidarity Center
Awareness / InternationalDescription

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone: (+1) 202-974-8383

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

The Solidarity Center strengthens workers’ economic and political power by promoting an international movement for democracy and social justice—where governments enforce, and employers respect, workers’ rights. The center uses its expertise to combat some of the worst forms of labor exploitation, including forced labor, human trafficking, and migrant worker exploitation.

United Way
Awareness / International Description

Contact: Contact correct United Way for your location
Phone: (703) 836-7112

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

The United Way Center on Human Trafficking and Slavery was founded because we can be the generation that ends modern slavery. There are more slaves today than at any other time in history. Let’s take action – together.

Verité
Specific Group / Massachusetts/USADescription

Contact: verite@verite.org
Phone: +1 413-253-9227

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: No

Verité is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that works with major brands and suppliers to assess and improve working conditions worldwide. The organization works to combat slavery and labor trafficking in global supply chains.

Contact: info@vitalvoices.org
Phone: 202-861-2625

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

Vital Voices Global Partnership identifies, invests in and brings visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their communities.

HEAL Trafficking
Survivors / International Description

Contact: info@healtrafficking.org
Phone:

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

HEAL Trafficking is a network of more than 3,500 survivors and multidisciplinary professionals in 35 countries building the capacity of health care systems and health professionals to respond to trafficking. HEAL works to mobilize a shift in the anti-trafficking paradigm toward approaches rooted in public health principles and trauma-informed care.

Humanity United Action
Awareness / National/Maybe Int.Description

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone:

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: No

Humanity United Action is dedicated to cultivating the conditions for enduring freedom and peace. The organization develops relationships and engages with key government and advocacy stakeholders in pursuit of legal and policy change, regulatory action, and public funding.

Contact: info@mccaininstitute.org
Phone: 202-601-4296

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

Inspired by the character-driven leadership of Senator John McCain and his family’s legacy of public service, the McCain Institute implements programs and initiatives to make a difference in people’s lives across a range of critical areas: leadership development, human rights, rule of law, national security, counterterrorism and combatting human trafficking.

Contact: office@truah.org
Phone: (212) 845-5201

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

T’ruah brings together rabbis and cantors from all streams of Judaism, together with all members of the Jewish community, to act on the Jewish imperative to respect and advance the human rights of all people. Grounded in Torah and our Jewish historical experience, and guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we call upon Jews to assert Jewish values by raising our voices and taking concrete steps to protect and expand human rights in North America, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Contact: contact@uaht.org
Phone: 713-874-0290

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

We believe that no human life should be for sale. Children and teenagers, men and women are exploited for sex and labor in our city every day. We exist to change that.

Contact: gbcat@bsr.org
Phone:

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: No

We are a coalition of businesses committed to combating human trafficking in company operations and supply chains. The mission of GBCAT is to harness the power of business across sectors to prevent and reduce human trafficking, and support survivors.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Survivors and Awareness / InternationalDescription

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone: (212) 643-9895

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) is one of the oldest international organizations working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Through an approach rooted in women’s rights and human rights principles, we advocate for strong laws and policies, raise public awareness and support survivor leadership.

End Slavery Now
Awareness / National/International Description

Contact: info@endslaverynow.org
Phone:

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

End Slavery Now believes we all have a role in ending slavery. We try to illustrate the many different ways normal, everyday individuals can get involved in the fight. From volunteer opportunities to resource sharing to curating all of the different opportunities to take action, our tools are designed to assist you when you ask: What can I do?

Contact: gaatw@gaatw.org
Phone: +66 2 864 1427/8

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: No

The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is an Alliance of more than 80 non-governmental organisations from Africa, Asia, Europe, LAC and North America. The GAATW International Secretariat is based in Bangkok, Thailand and co-ordinates the activities of the Alliance, collects and disseminates information, and advocates on behalf of the Alliance at regional and international levels.

Stop the Traffik
Awareness / EuropeDescription

Contact: info@stopthetraffik.org
Phone: +44 (0) 207 921 4258

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

STOP THE TRAFFIK is a pioneer in human trafficking prevention. Working to unite people around the world by inspiring, informing, equipping and mobilising communities to; know what human trafficking is, know how to identify it and know how to respond appropriately if they saw it.

Urban Justice Center
Awareness / NationalDescription

Contact: swp@urbanjustice.org
Phone: 646-602-5617

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

In collaboration with and guided by impacted communities, we offer legal advocacy to survivors of human trafficking and people who engage in sex work, regardless of whether they do so by choice, circumstance, or coercion.

Fair Girls
Survivors and Awareness / Washington DC/NationalDescription

Contact: info@fairgirls.org
Phone: 202-520-9777

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

FAIR Girls (formerly FAIR Fund) provides intervention and holistic care to survivors of human trafficking who identify as girls or young women. Through prevention education and policy advocacy, FAIR Girls also works to eradicate human trafficking and create brighter outcomes for survivors. The FAIR Girls home office in Washington, D.C. offers compassionate care to prevent the exploitation of all girls.

Unicef USA
Awareness / NationalDescription

Contact: Website
Phone: (800) 367-5437

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

Child victims of trafficking are recruited, transported, transferred, harbored or received for the purpose of exploitation. They may be forced to work in sweatshops, on construction sites or in houses as domestic servants; on the streets as child beggars, in wars as child soldiers, on farms, in traveling sales crews or in restaurants and hotels. Some are forced to work in brothels and strip clubs or for escort and massage services.

Freedom Network USA
Awareness / Washington DC/NationalDescription

Contact: info@freedomnetworkusa.org
Phone: (646) 504-9602

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

Freedom Network USA is dedicated to a human rights-based approach to human trafficking. Protecting the rights of each individual survivor is the only path to restoring their dignity and giving them the opportunity they deserve to pursue a better life. This commitment to human rights ties the network together as it works toward the common goal of ending human trafficking.

Love146
Awareness / UK/InternationalDescription

Contact: info@love146.org
Phone: 203-772-4420

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

Love146 is an international human rights organization working to end child trafficking and exploitation through survivor care and prevention. The trafficking and exploitation of children is one of the darkest stories and most severe human rights abuses imaginable. But for us, the hope of ending it is a reality. Love146 is helping grow the movement to end child trafficking while providing effective, thoughtful solutions. We believe in the power of love and its ability to effect sustainable change. Love is the foundation of our motivation.

Prajwala
Specific Group / South India/InternationalDescription

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone:

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

Prajwala is a pioneering anti-trafficking organization working on the issue of sex trafficking and sex crime. Established in the year 1996 in South India, Prajwala has pan India and International operations. Prajwala works on the five pillars of Prevention, Protection, Rescue, Rehabilitation & Reintegration. In the last one decade it has become one of the most powerful voices nationally and globally for ensuring holistic victim services.

Urban Light
Survivors and Awareness / Thailand/USADescription

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone: 301-523-0187

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

We PROTECT boys and young men by meeting their core needs and EMPOWER them through education, training, and counseling—all to give them FREEDOM to choose a life beyond exploitation.

Goodweave
Awareness / USA/UKDescription

Contact: Info@GoodWeave.org
Phone: 202-234-9050

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

We are an winning team of business-minded experts and advocates for social change dedicated to ending child labor, forced labor, and bonded labor in global supply chains.

Free the captives
Survivors and Awareness / Houston/TexasDescription

Contact: info@freethecaptiveshouston.com
Phone:

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

Free the Captives is a faith-based 501(c)3 nonprofit fighting teenaged sex trafficking in Houston. The average age of girls being trafficked is between the ages of 12 to 14 years old. We rescue and restore teenaged sex trafficking victims by working with law enforcement and providing rescued victims with support groups, mentoring, jobs, material assistance, and other direct services. We also engage and mobilize volunteers from the community while partnering with non-profits and government agencies in the fight against modern day slavery.

Contact: Minal.Davis@houstontx.gov
Phone: (832) 393-0977

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: No

In 2015, the Houston Mayor’s office was the first city in the US to establish a full-time position in the Mayor’s cabinet to address labor and sex trafficking through a municipal lens and to develop a comprehensive model for our city that included leveraging city departments, increasing awareness at scale, filling gaps in services, increasing screenings in the public health arena and ensuring our comprehensive municipal response serves as a model.

Elijah Rising
Awareness / Houston/TexasDescription

Contact: admin@elijahrising.org
Phone: (832) 628-3439

Accepting Volunteers: Yes
Accepting Donations: Yes

Elijah Rising was founded in 2012 as a prayer gathering that focused on ending sex trafficking in Houston. Across Houston women and girls were being sold for sex, but there was little outcry, so Elijah Rising began hosting Van Tours and showing the public that sex trafficking is happening across our city.

Coalition to Combat Human Trafficking
Survivors and Awareness / Houston/TexasDescription

Contact: Contact Form on Website
Phone: (281)-369-4412

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

The Coalition to Combat Human Trafficking in Texas is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that partners with other organizations and individuals to make a strong, measurable impact on the crisis of people subject to and associated with human trafficking. The Coalition focuses on fighting for human dignity along the border and all across the state of Texas. We work passionately to bring awareness, education and training, and victim assistance services to help combat both labor and sex trafficking.

Children at Risk
Awareness / Houston/TexasDescription

Contact: info@childrenatrisk.org
Phone: 713-869-7740

Accepting Volunteers: No
Accepting Donations: Yes

Texas is a leading hub for human trafficking and continued efforts are being made to reduce and assist the victims of these crimes. CHILDREN AT RISK leads educational presentations on human trafficking in Houston as well as Dallas & Fort Worth. Awareness bus tours where participants learn to identify the red flags and potential signs of human trafficking in their community are also offered. Check out our events calendar for upcoming tour dates, or contact us to request a speaker or tour.