About Not For Sale
In 2006, our co-founder David Batstone discovered that his favourite restaurant in San Francisco was trafficking young girls. He refused to look away.
He teamed up with Mark Wexler, and together they launched Not For Sale, an organisation dedicated to ending human trafficking and rebuilding communities vulnerable to exploitation.
What began as a response to one tragedy has since grown into a global movement, driven by the belief that no one is for sale.
From frontline reports to survivor-led projects, stay updated as they happen across our social channels. Our live feed offers a real-time window into the work being done every day to fight human trafficking, challenge ecocide, and build sustainable futures for all.
Our Approach
Human
Trafficking
Social
Enterprise
Ecocide
We prevent trafficking before it starts by tackling the vulnerabilities that make people targets, poverty, displacement, lack of education, and unsafe environments. Through long-term programs, we provide protection, education, and opportunity so that people can choose freedom over fear.
Poverty and lack of opportunity fuel exploitation. That’s why we build and support mission-driven businesses that create fair jobs, sustainable income, and community resilience. These enterprises aren’t just lifelines, they are engines of dignity and independence.
Environmental destruction and resource theft often force people into desperate situations that traffickers exploit. We work to protect ecosystems and empower communities to safeguard their land, forests, and rivers. By resisting ecocide, we break cycles of exploitation and displacement.
Our Approach
Human
Trafficking
We prevent trafficking before it starts by tackling the vulnerabilities that make people targets, poverty, displacement, lack of education, and unsafe environments. Through long-term programs, we provide protection, education, and opportunity so that people can choose freedom over fear.
Social
Enterprise
Poverty and lack of opportunity fuel exploitation. That’s why we build and support mission-driven businesses that create fair jobs, sustainable income, and community resilience. These enterprises aren’t just lifelines, they are engines of dignity and independence.
Ecocide
Environmental destruction and resource theft often force people into desperate situations that traffickers exploit. We work to protect ecosystems and empower communities to safeguard their land, forests, and rivers. By resisting ecocide, we break cycles of exploitation and displacement.
Our Impact
500,000+
Number of people we’ve supported globally since 2006.
27,600
Number of tree’s we’ve planted to protect ecosystems and provide communities with long-term environmental security.
24.91
Of land reforested. Restoring habitats and strengthening resilience against exploitation.
5,701.2
Tonnes of CO₂ captured, reducing the climate pressures that often drive vulnerability and displacement.
