WASHINGTON – AHLA Basis has awarded $500,000 in inaugural No Room for Trafficking (NRFT) Survivor Fund grants to 4 community-based organizations that serve human trafficking survivors.
The 2023 NRFT Survivor Fund grant recipients will present and promote sources to construct survivors’ stability and self-sufficiency—from childcare and housing to transportation, profession coaching and employment alternatives. The 2023 grantees are:
The NRFT Survivor Fund is a primary for the hospitality sector. It launched final yr, increasing upon the lodge and lodging trade’s efforts to help trafficking survivors. Since its launch, the fund has grown to $3.4 million. As a part of its continued dedication to combatting this difficulty, AHLA Basis is matching NRFT Survivor Fund contributions as much as $5 million (with an general objective of $10 million in complete contributions by the top of 2023).
The No Room for Trafficking Survivor Fund reveals unprecedented alignment by the trade within the battle in opposition to trafficking and supplies essential help to survivors on their path ahead. By investing in organizations main on the entrance traces of survivor help, the collective impression of the trade will help break the trafficking cycle and make a constructive distinction within the lives of survivors. Anna Blue, president, AHLA Basis
The NRFT Advisory Council, which incorporates government leaders from throughout the lodge and lodging trade, introduced the grants as a part of the NRFT Summit on the Park Hyatt in Washington, DC. The occasion highlighted the lodge trade’s crucial efforts within the battle in opposition to human trafficking and featured a keynote tackle from U.S. Ambassador-at-Giant to Monitor and Fight Trafficking in Individuals Cindy Dyer.
About No Room for Trafficking
No Room for Trafficking is an AHLA and AHLA Basis consciousness program that builds on the trade’s ongoing dedication and work to finish human trafficking. Via elevating, assessing, educating and supporting the battle to finish human trafficking, the marketing campaign will guarantee lodge staff are constantly creating a greater understanding of how to establish traffickers and potential victims in lodges.
About The American Resort & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA)
The American Resort & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) is the most important lodge affiliation in America, representing greater than 30,000 members from all segments of the trade nationwide – together with iconic international manufacturers, 80% of all franchised lodges, and the 16 largest lodge corporations within the U.S. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AHLA focuses on strategic advocacy, communications help, and workforce improvement packages to maneuver the trade ahead. Study extra at www.ahla.com.
In regards to the AHLA Basis
The AHLA Basis, the charitable giving arm of the American Resort & Lodging Affiliation, is devoted to serving to folks construct careers, enhance their lives and strengthen the lodging trade. We offer impactful options that drive the recruitment, retention and improvement of people for life-long careers in hospitality. To rework the trade and alter lives, we join the unemployed and underemployed with new profession pathways and supply instructional packages and sources to help their skilled development. The Basis is funded by grants and charitable contributions from beneficiant people and organizations who need to help people searching for alternatives to thrive within the lodge and lodging trade. Study extra at www.ahlafoundation.org.
