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{{Short description|U.S.-based non-profit organization}}
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{{Infobox organisation
| name = Love146
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| established = 2004
| chairman =
| key_people = Rob Morris {{small|(CEO & Co-Founder)}}
| employees = 54 (2018-2019)<ref name="irs-990-2018" />
| revenue = {{decrease}} $4.4 million<ref name="irs-990-2018">{{cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/201168284/202020079349301632/full|title=LOVE146 INC - Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year ending June 2019|publisher=[[ProPublica]]|work=Nonprofit Explorer|date=9 May 2013|accessdate=10 November 2020}}</ref>
| revenue_year = 2020-2021 FY
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| headquarters = [[New Haven, Connecticut]]<ref name="irs-990-2018" />
| location = Field projects and partnerships in the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], the [[Philippines]]
| address =
| website = {{URL|https://love146.org/}}
}}
'''Love146''' is a U.S.-based [[501(c)(3)]] non-profit international anti-[[Trafficking of children|child trafficking]] organization.<ref name="one">{{cite web |url=http://ywamny.org/discipleship-training-school/dts-speakers |title=Fall DTS 2010 Speakers |accessdate=2010-07-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707005834/http://www.ywamny.org/discipleship-training-school/dts-speakers |archivedate=2010-07-07 }}</ref>
== History ==
Love146 was founded in 2002,<ref name="two">{{Cite web|url=http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/20-1168284/love146.aspx|title=Guidestar|last=|first=|date=|website=www.guidestar.org|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> when the group's co-founders, Rob Morris, Lamont Hiebert, Desirea Rodgers, and Caroline Hahm, went on an exploratory trip to [[Southeast Asia]] to see how they could help combat [[Trafficking of children|child trafficking]]. According to Love146, as part of an undercover operation, investigators took several co-founders into a [[brothel]] where they witnessed young girls being sold for sex. The girls were given identification numbers pinned to their dresses. One girl in particular stood out. Morris explained that she stared in their direction with a piercing gaze. Her number was 146.<ref name="three">{{Cite web|url=https://love146.org/love-story/|title=The Love146 Story|website=Love146|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> The co-founders returned to the US and began Love146. The vision of Love146 is "the end of child trafficking and exploitation – nothing less."
Prior to the establishing of Love146, co-founder and president, Rob Morris, worked with [[Mercy Ships]] International. Morris has lectured and taught in over 30 countries on issues of [[justice]], [[compassion]], and [[human rights]], and has been featured in the [[HuffPost|Huffington Post]],<ref name="four">{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/child-trafficking_b_1265829.html|title=Fighting Child Trafficking|last1=Baldwin|first1=Alec|last2=Morris|first2=Rob|date=2012-02-09|website=HuffPost|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> [[Fox News]],<ref name="five">{{Cite web|url=http://video.foxnews.com/v/1507745383001/|title=Chilling account of child slavery in the US|website=Fox News|date=18 March 2016 |language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> the [[CNN Freedom Project]],<ref name="six">{{Cite web|url=http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/12/three-voices-how-to-end-modern-day-slavery/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713180256/http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/12/three-voices-how-to-end-modern-day-slavery/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 13, 2011|title=3 voices: How to end modern-day slavery|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> and other outlets.
Love146 became an official public charity in March 2004, under the name Justice for Children International.<ref name="seven">{{Cite web|url=https://love146.org/mission-vision/|title=Vision & Values|website=Love146|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> In 2007, the group changed their name to Love146.<ref name="eight">{{cite web |url=http://www.brainsonfire.com/work/love146.html |title=Brains on Fire &#124; Ambassador-Led Movements &#124; Love 146 |accessdate=2014-01-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219021900/http://www.brainsonfire.com/work/love146.html |archivedate=2014-02-19 }}</ref>
Love146 was named an "Agent of Change" by ''[[GQ]]'' magazine, and earned a [[Myspace]] Impact Award for [[social justice]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}  [[Baume & Mercier]] sent Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist [[Carolyn Cole]] to Southeast Asia to take photos in support of Love146. In 2008, Baume & Mercier hosted an exhibition of her photos in [[New York City]] titled "Into the Light".<ref name="ten">{{Cite web|url=https://www.baume-et-mercier.com/news/events/usa-new-york-into-the-light-photography-charity-event-8401|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203144301/https://www.baume-et-mercier.com/news/events/usa-new-york-into-the-light-photography-charity-event-8401|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-02-03|title=USA - "Into the Light" photography & charity event {{!}} Baume & Mercier|date=2010-02-03|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref>
Heather Fischer, former US government special advisor to the State Department's Trafficking in Persons Office and first special advisor for human trafficking at the White House,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2017-2021-translations.state.gov/2020/06/25/at-the-2020-trafficking-in-persons-report-launch-ceremony/index.html |title = At the 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report Launch Ceremony by Dyson Dylan– Translations}}</ref> started her human rights career at Love146.
28 states have utilized the curriculum of the organization as of 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Love (146) Is Back In Town |url=https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/love146 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=New Haven Independent |language=en}}</ref> That year, the organization celebrated its 20th anniversary with a "cutting of the ribbon".
== References ==
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[[Category:501(c)(3) organizations]]
[[Category:Non-profit organizations based in Connecticut]]