Partners and Funders

Brazilian Public Labor Prosecution Office

The Federal Labor Prosecution Office (FLPO) is an independent public body tasked with defending the rule of law and the fundamental rights within labor relations in Brazil. The institution is a leading entity in the fight against human trafficking. Our Lab has actively collaborated with the FLPO in Maranhão, in partnership with the Government of Maranhão and the State’s Slave Labor Eradication Commission, with student exchanges, training initiatives, data collection efforts, and support to survivors-centered activities within the SmartLab’s Integra 8.7 platform.

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SmartLab

The SmartLab Initiative develops data-driven solutions offering insights to government entities, nonprofit organizations, civil society groups, and academics. Drawing from public data, the SmartLab Observatories provide hundreds of indicators that support informed policy decisions across Brazil’s 5,570 municipalities. These insights bolster effective public policies, amplify local initiatives aimed at vulnerable communities, and help improve data collection strategies to fight trafficking. In addition, SmartLab monitors anti-trafficking policies (monitora87.org) in Brazil and its South American neighbors, and helps improve social assistance for survivors through the Integra 8.7 platform.

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ORI Consultoria e Treinamento em Gestão

Inspired by the Yoruba word "ORI," which symbolizes leadership and thought, ORI Consultoria e Treinamento em Gestão is a social entrepreneurship firm that seeks to collaborate with the driving forces behind social transformation in Brazil. They aim to be a catalyst in the promotion, protection, and realization of human and social rights through management and knowledge.

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Carmen Bascarán Center of Defense of Life and Human Rights — CDVDH/CB

Since its founding, in 1996, the CDVDH/CB has developed a strategy in the State of Maranhão integrating social intervention that includes prevention of rights violations through the forwarding of information to raise popular awareness; training, mobilization and social organization for the emancipation and exercising of citizenship for the most vulnerable individuals, families and groups. It also applies social and political pressure for the eradication of slave labor and other rights violations.

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Survivor Alliance

Survivor Alliance envisions a world where survivors of slavery and human trafficking are thriving members of society. The achieve this vision by uniting and empowering survivors of slavery and human trafficking around the world to become leaders of the anti-slavery movement. They believe that building sustainable survivor communities enables survivors to thrive and that empowered survivors will lead the anti-slavery movement and create solutions for fellow survivors to thrive. By providing learning, leadership, and engagement opportunities, survivors can find a way to transform trauma into treasured knowledge and expertise.

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Stanford Impact Labs

The world’s biggest social problems are complex, multi-faceted, and stubborn. They also demand and deserve innovative, effective solutions. No academic center or government can solve issues like economic inequality, pandemic response, or political polarization alone. We need community leaders, policymakers, and social scientists – equipped with varied skills and experience – to co-create fresh insights, evidence, and action. Stanford Impact Labs (SIL) aims to serve that need by investing in highly-motivated teams of government, business, and nonprofit partners working in tandem with solutions-driven scholars.

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Human Trafficking Research Initiative (Innovations for Poverty Action)

Despite the gravity and prevalence of human trafficking, there is a notable lack of evidence on what programs work to reduce trafficking and support victims. To support research on this critical and understudied topic, IPA has established the Human Trafficking Research Initiative in partnership with the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS) at the U.S. Department of State, with the guidance and support of co-scientific advisors Guy Grossman (University of Pennsylvania) and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo (University of California, Berkeley).

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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is working toward a future in which societies meet people’s needs for water, food, health and other vital services while sustaining the planet.

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