Hi Everyone -

My friend Ben Rattray is the founder of this social change web site called Change.org, and it allows individual people to set up personal fundraising pages to send to friends and family.  Thanks for visiting my Change.org fundraising page!

As many of you know, I work at a non-profit in Washington, DC called Polaris Project, which works on the fight against human trafficking and modern-day slavery.  I've been working on the issue of human trafficking since 2002 for the past 6 years when I graduated from undergrad, and I've been at Polaris since 2004.  

Here at Polaris, we're launching into a Spring 2008 fundraising push to raise support for our newest program, the National Human Trafficking Hotline.  This single hotline serves the entire country, is available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, and it gets calls at all hours of people reporting tips and encounters with human trafficking situations.  Our job is to staff the hotline, to receive the tips from all across the nation, and to act as the national first responder by referring tips to law enforcement and local service providers.  I'm the Project Director, and I can't even begin to describe how exciting it is to receive the calls, and to be able to make such a concrete impact on the issue.  In the past 3 months alone, we've received calls about over 700 trafficking victims. 

In order to support the national hotline and to prepare internally for the increasing volumes of calls that we're getting each month, we're starting a fundraising drive to generate support for the cause! 

Please consider donating and helping to build this national trafficking hotline!  If you ever want to call the hotline, please dial 1-888-3737-888.  Also, please feel free to forward this page along to other friends and family! 

Thanks again everyone! 
Brad Myles
202-302-9160 cell

(Note: The picture below is me testifying about human trafficking in the U.S. before the House Judiciary Committee in Congress in October 2007).