“Ripples. When you create a difference in someone’s life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, that is how to make an ocean rise.” –Danielle Doby, Author Eight months ago, we learned that Cyntoia Brown, a […]
What Does Being a “Four-Star Charity” Mean?
By Marissa Gunther, Director of Growth Strategies, Shared Hope International For the 6th consecutive year, Shared Hope International has achieved the coveted four-star rating from Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest independent evaluator of charities. Following a thoroughly comprehensive review, Shared Hope earned 92.73 points out of 100 overall for the Fiscal Year 2018. So what […]
Running Upstream: A Call to Action this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
By Marissa Gunther, Director of Growth Strategies, Shared Hope International Perhaps you’re familiar with the fable of the man and the river? The story is commonly told like this: A man sits peacefully on a grassy slope that rolls into a river’s edge, his family picnicking and playing nearby. As he listens to his children’s […]
VICTIMS OR OFFENDERS? How the Criminal Justice System Needs to Shift Its Perspective
Octavis Lampkin will be presenting, “Victim or Offender? Peer Recruitment and Drug Trafficking within the Sex Trafficking Experience” with Sue Aboul-Hosn, BSSW, CPSW, Regional Human Trafficking Coordinator, Florida Department of Children and Families, on Tuesday, October 15 at this year’s JuST (Juvenile Sex Trafficking) Conference in Cincinnati, OH. Visit justconference.org/just2019 to review our workshop agenda and […]
2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report – Our International Reflection
By Nancy Winston, Vice President, Shared Hope International Each year at this time the TIP report lands with a thud. The huge undertaking by the U.S. Department of State to define the state of human trafficking world wide used to represent a couple pounds of paper on my desk and now is a virtual thud […]
