Allies Against Slavery harnesses data to illuminate and eradicate human trafficking. They believe in a future where every community has the data it needs to make victims visible and prevent human trafficking. Allies is focused on scaling their Lighthouse platform nationally to help identify victims, coordinate care, and understand trends in data. This year, they are expanding their data infrastructure to strengthen a national ecosystem of partners—helping the field track trends, support service delivery, advance policies, and hold traffickers accountable.
This two-year project includes three key focus areas:
Building a Collaborative Data Ecosystem
Allies will coordinate a network of national partners to align data standards and goals. This includes:
Organizing working groups that help define data governance, implementation, and sustainability
Creating a national charter for collaboration
Piloting a project to test and refine ecosystem standards
Scaling the Lighthouse Platform
To expand its reach and impact, Allies will:
Add new data sources, including demand-side data from partners like Epik Project and the University of Alabama
Optimize data visualizations and dashboards
Build AI models to detect trafficking patterns
Producing Research and Reports
Allies will publish accessible and high-impact research that will influence policy and support anti-trafficking efforts. This includes:
The State Human Trafficking Report
Micro-reports and letters to legislators on behalf of advocacy partners
Data dissemination via webinars, meetings, media, and social channels
While trafficking exists in every state, many communities have no information to determine which types of trafficking are prevalent, how and where it happens, and the extent of the demand generated by traffickers. Most organizations struggle with getting data, turning it into action, and working across systems.
With GrantTank support, Allies Against Slavery will:
Catalyze a national culture of data collaboration
Establish shared standards, goals, and pilot projects across a trusted network of anti-trafficking leaders.
Expand access to actionable data
Grow the Lighthouse platform, incorporate new datasets, and apply AI tools to unlock insights at scale.
Empower evidence-based decision-making
Deliver data-driven reports and research that influence policy, guide resource allocation, and elevate survivor-informed solutions.
The Jensen Project is proud to fund innovative solutions that address the root causes and systemic gaps fueling human trafficking. Our decision about Allies ultimately came down to their existing partnerships and research, our trust in the people who were leading the initiative, their proximity to a population that could especially use their help, their thriving company culture, and their organization’s stability and forethought.
In our review, we were especially moved by:
Allies Against Slavery is not only filling critical gaps in the field but also building the infrastructure to close them for good. Becoming a GrantTank recipient enables Allies Against Slavery to broaden their reach and impact in the United States. With increased funding, their innovative software, Lighthouse, will better educate direct service providers of the need in their area, inform nonprofits of surrounding services for increased collaboration, and improve overall understanding of the domestic human trafficking crisis, so we might be better equipped to fight it.
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