DIY Fundraising Toolkit

If you’re looking for a way you can support Polaris while still practicing social distancing, check out the new Do-it-Yourself Fundraising Toolkit. In the toolkit, you’ll find different fundraising ideas as well as best practices, guidelines, and language to use to help ensure a successful and fun campaign.

Learn about the temporary work visas system and support federal policies that provide protections for domestic and agricultural guest workers: A significant portion of labor trafficking situations we learn about through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline involve workers who are in this country on legal, temporary work visas. Those workers know to call the Trafficking Hotline because they receive information about it before they enter the country. Now that may be changing. At a moment when the importance of these workers has never been more obvious, we need to do better to protect them. Learn more about temporary work visas and how they leave workers vulnerable to trafficking.

Support survivor-owned or led businesses and businesses that offer meaningful employment opportunities to survivors: In the best of times, it can be difficult for survivors of sex and labor trafficking to rebuild their economic futures. Barriers to employment often include criminal records they have as a result of having been trafficked or gaps in their employment history that make it harder for them to find jobs. These are, of course, not the best of times. Learn about survivor-owned businesses or businesses that support survivors or work within your own organization to ensure your hiring practices do not discriminate against survivors of human trafficking.

Advocate for state and local policies that support healthy families, good jobs, and strong communities as a way to prevent and reduce trafficking: As the economic fallout of COVID-19 continues unabated, more people will lose their homes, and with them, any semblance of economic security. That will make them more vulnerable than ever to the lies and manipulations of exploiters. The first and most important step we can take to right now is to support moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures.