A CALL FOR FUNDERS

Are you a foundation, philanthropic organization, or individual donor interested in supporting an innovative and holistic approach to address Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) as a practice of inequality and gender-based violence?

Would you like to invest in transformative work that:

• Supports the development of comprehensive survivor-led exit programs and real alternatives for youth and adults who have been exploited?

• Promotes men's accountability to end CSE?

• Furthers gender equality by changing social norms that falsely imply survivor culpability for CSE?

• Changes norms that reinforce men's perceived entitlement to buy sexual access to others' bodies?

Introducing a funding opportunity for Modeling Equality.

Modeling Equality seeks mission-aligned funders to provide consultation, training and technical support, to fund the Modeling Equality initiative. 

Your investment will enable participating localities to cultivate coordinated responses to CSE to develop programming, policy and practices that model equality to end CSE in their communities, including:

• Engage men and boys in stopping CSE by utilizing a spectrum of prevention practices that address sex buying as a form of gender-based violence

• Work within all sectors and across every level of social ecology to transform society and address the root causes of CSE – inequality and men's demand for sexual access to the bodies of others

Why Fund This Initiative?

Building on successful approaches pioneered in Seattle & King County, WA, Modeling Equality offers funders a unique opportunity to:

• Support work that addresses CSE as a gender-based violence issue rather than solely a human trafficking issue

• Invest in changing harmful social norms through a proven model of intervention

• Fund innovative work that operationalizes the Equality Model beyond legal reforms

• Join a growing global movement to address commercial sexual exploitation through the promotion of true gender equality

• Support the co-creation of cultures of mutuality at every level of social ecology

Please get in touch via our Contact form to discuss funding opportunities and how your support can help transform communities and save lives.