How Businesses Partner With Allies Against Slavery to Combat Human Trafficking Through Data

From Corporate Philanthropy to Shared Impact

Corporate anti-trafficking engagement focuses on awareness campaigns and charitable donations rather than the strategic potential of companies to leverage their core business strengths, such as technology expertise, data analytics, employee skills, and professional networks, to drive both business value and measurable social impact.

Technology companies are beginning to acknowledge the legal, operational, and societal risks that modern-day slavery poses to their business models.

How Allies Against Slavery Is Part of the Solution

Allies Against Slavery builds strategic partnerships, recognizing that businesses are essential for systemic change and companies are integral partners in building the data ecosystem required for a future where every community has the data it needs to combat and prevent human trafficking.

Through Allies’ flagship Lighthouse data platform— which has collected over 200,000 screenings, identified more than 20,000 potential victims, and aggregated over 40 data sets to deliver actionable intelligence—businesses discover new ways to leverage their most valuable assets. This ecosystem approach fosters corporate leadership in social responsibility, delivering a measurable impact.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dropbox, and Vodafone have recognized the opportunity to help address human trafficking while advancing their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments, harnessing marketing strategies, and providing employee engagement initiatives.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

From Campaign to Co-Leadership

Allies Against Slavery is a partner of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Accelerating Impact campaign, which allows employees to give donations to 21 technology nonprofits. Allies has perennially emerged as a top earner.

HPE worked with Allies to convene over 75 anti-trafficking leaders in Washington, D.C., envisioning how to scale up a national data ecosystem. Pam Wood, HPE’s director of Human Rights and Responsible Supply Chains, provided the keynote, emphasizing the strategic shift happening across the tech industry:

"As a tech company, we understand the power of data. Data tells stories, provides indisputable evidence, and catches attention. There’s an opportunity to collaborate across an ecosystem of modern-slavery data holders and formulate more robust metrics that convince more companies to act and provide practitioners with more meaningful insights to tackle this persistent problem."

HPE and Allies are exploring concrete pro bono initiatives in AI training and cybersecurity—areas where HPE’s technical expertise directly addresses Lighthouse platform needs.

About the author

Michael Billet

Michael Billet, director of policy research for Employment Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, keeps members and internal Chamber policy staff abreast of pending labor, immigration, and health care legislation, as well as federal regulatory and subregulatory activities. He is also responsible for planning the Chamber’s annual workplace and community wellness forum.

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