EST. 2015501(c)(3) nonprofit
ELIMINATING
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
& DOMESTIC ABUSE
FROM OUR WORLD
We give overwhelmed law enforcement agencies the intelligence and evidence they need to dismantle trafficking networks, support the operations that bring people home, and stay with survivors long after the headlines move on.
WHO WE AREThe Foundation
BUILT BY PEOPLE
WHO COULDN’T
STOP SERVING.
“We finished our careers and found the work wasn’t finished with us.”
Our founders came out of the private sector, the intelligence community, and military service to this country. After their careers ended, the pull to keep serving others didn’t. In 2015 they created International Harbor Foundation.
They then did the one thing that actually matters in this work: they recruited people who are exceptional at it. Physicians and nurses. Victim advocates. Rescue operators. Hostage negotiators. Security professionals. Humanitarian field staff. Analysts who can sit with a data set for three weeks and find the one thread that unravels a network.
That mix is the point. Trafficking and abuse are not single-discipline problems, and they are not solved by good intentions. They are solved by evidence, capability, and the patience to stay on a case until the people running it are stopped.
HOW WE WORKThree fronts, one objective
DISMANTLE THE NETWORK.
BRING PEOPLE HOME.
THEN STAY.
INTELLIGENCE & EVIDENCE
Law enforcement agencies are overwhelmed and understaffed. We close the gap. Our analysts build out the structure of a trafficking network — the recruiters, the transporters, the buyers, the money — and hand investigators an evidence package they can act on. We are not interested in a single arrest. We want the whole operation dismantled.
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RESCUE OPERATIONS
We support agencies on domestic rescue operations and, where we are invited and lawfully able, carry out international recovery missions. Our team includes hostage negotiators, medics and security professionals who have done this work before, in harder places, for longer than most.
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SURVIVOR AFTERCARE
Rescue is the beginning, not the end. Once a survivor is identified and recovered we connect them with safe housing, trauma-informed therapy, medical care, legal advocacy and job training — the scaffolding a person needs to build a life that is genuinely their own.
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WHEN THE SIREN
IS FOR SOMEONE
ELSE’S EMERGENCY.
Our people spent their careers alongside first responders, and a foundation built by veterans doesn’t get to look away when a community is flattened. Two of our four programs exist for exactly that reason.
FIRST RESPONDER SUPPORT
Fire, EMS, dispatch and police personnel carry the load of everyone else’s worst day. We fund equipment gaps, back peer-support and mental health access, and show up for the departments and families behind the badge — because giving back to first responders was in this foundation’s DNA from the start.
DISASTER RESPONSE
When a hurricane, flood, wildfire or earthquake hits, our teams deploy into the window before large-scale aid arrives — welfare checks, supply distribution, logistics and coordination. Disaster zones are also where traffickers hunt for displaced and unaccounted-for people, so our presence does double duty.
AWARENESSAbduction & kidnap prevention
MOST PEOPLE
WOULDN’T
RECOGNIZE IT.
Trafficking rarely looks like a van and a stranger. It looks like a job offer, a boyfriend, a ride home, a debt. We wrote a plain-language field guide to what to watch for — in a person, in a place, in your own child’s phone — and exactly what to do when something feels wrong.
Read the awareness guideSUPPORTWhere your money goes
$25 A MONTH KEEPS
SOMEONE FED, HOUSED
AND IN THERAPY.
Intelligence work, rescue logistics and long-term aftercare are all recurring costs, which means recurring gifts are what we can actually plan around. Give monthly at $25, $50, $100 or $250 — or make a one-time gift of any size up to $5,000 and beyond.
501(c)(3) nonprofit · Gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law