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The 2010 Capital City Ball will raise money and awareness to
support the fight against human trafficking and modern-day
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2010 CHARITY BENEFICIARIES |
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COURTNEY'S HOUSE
Courtney’s House is committed to providing a safe space and loving home environment - in a therapeutic and emotionally healing atmosphere - for domestic sex trafficked girls between the ages of 12 and 18 years. Courtney’s House is dedicated to the mission of ending domestic sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of all children. We focus our efforts on providing long-term group home and providing direct services.
The Courtney’s House initiative was started in August 2008. The organization was founded by Tina Frundt, herself a survivor of domestic child sex trafficking and the first United States winner for FREEDOM AWARDS. Ms. Frundt has also won the “Frederick Douglass Award” given to an individual who has survived slavery and is using his or her life in freedom to help others. This award named after Frederick Douglass , an escaped slave who became an influential author, diplomat and abolitionist, and helped to persuade President Lincoln to end American slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation.
Funds raised will help Courtney’s House to open a 6-bed long-term group home for sex- trafficked girls between the ages of 12 and 18 years – the only one of its kind in the Washington, D.C. area to cater specifically to this vital population segment.
For more information please visit www.CourtneysHouse.org.
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FAIRFUND
Fair Fund assists youths to avoid and escape trafficking and trafficked youth ages 11 – 24 by employing a threefold strategy:
Build Community Leadership: Annually training thousands of law enforcement officers, educators, youth program leaders and social workers to identify victims of trafficking to raise awareness and promote policy solutions.
Educate and Empower High Risk Youth: Educating teens in urban schools across the US and internationally providing prevention education and life skills for youth leaving orphan care on how to stay safe from sex trafficking.
Provide Compassionate Intervention Services to Trafficked Youth: Providing safe passage for teen victims of trafficking such as shelter and job referrals, long-term mentorship and self-esteem workshops, art therapy, economic empowerment, and referrals to medical and legal support
Fair Fund is the recipient of multiple awards including the 2008 Washington Area Women’s Foundation’s Citizen Philanthropy Online Challenge for its work with girls in Washington, DC and named in the 2009 Catalogue for Philanthropy of “One of the Best Small Charities: in Greater Washington, DC. Funds raised through the Capital City Ball will be applied towards general operations costs for two of FAIR Fund’s local DC programs, Jewel Girls, and Tell Your Friends.
Jewel Girls is an economic empowerment and art-therapy program that gives teen girls and young women a chance at a life free from exploitation and violence. The participants create unique jewelry while gaining access to intensive mentorship, support, life skills, financial management skills, and more.
Tell Your Friends educates approximately 950 DC teens annually, in schools, shelters, and youth centers, on how to protect themselves against sexual exploitation through our prevention curriculum, and increases their knowledge and access to services.
For more information please visit www.FairFund.org.
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POLARIS PROJECT
Polaris Project is one of the largest anti-trafficking organizations in the United States and Japan, with programs operating at international, national and local levels through our offices in Washington, DC; Newark, NJ; and Tokyo, Japan. Polaris Project’s vision is for a world without slavery. Named after the North Star that guided slaves toward freedom along the Underground Railroad, Polaris Project has been providing a comprehensive approach to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery since 2002, serving both citizen and foreign national victims of human trafficking.
Polaris Project’s holistic approach to combating human trafficking includes conducting direct outreach and victim identification, providing social services and transitional housing to victims, operating the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC); serving as the central national hotline on human trafficking, advocating for stronger state and federal anti-trafficking legislation, conducting training and policy implementation, and engaging community members in local and national grassroots efforts.
Since its founding, Polaris Project has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors for its achievements including: Ashoka Innovators for the Public, Marie Claire’s 10 Best Charities, the 2006 Justice for Victims of Crime Award presented by the Department of Justice, the DO Something BRICK award, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation Leadership Award 2004 and 2009. We received the highest rating of 4 stars from Charity Navigator, the "People's Voice" award from Diane von Furstenberg and honors from Lifetime Television, Body Shop, and CNN.
To find out more, visit www.polarisproject.org.
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MEDIA INQUIRIES
For media inquiries, email
Media@CapitalCityBall.org
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