{{Short description|U.S.-based anti-child trafficking non-profit organization}} {{Multiple issues| {{primary sources|date=January 2014}} {{Advert|date=April 2021}} }} {{Infobox organisation | name = Love146 | image_name = | logo_caption = The logo of Love146 | caption = | former_name = Justice for Children International (2004-2007) | established = 2004 | logo = Love146Logo.png | chairman = | key_people = Rob Morris {{small|(CEO & Co-Founder)}} | num_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 | budget = | endowment = | debt = | 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-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 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. 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.
Prior to the establishing of Love146, co-founder and president, Rob Morris, worked with Mercy Ships International.
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 | Ambassador-Led Movements | 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> 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>
28 states have utilized the organization's curriculum 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>
== References == <references /> Category:501(c)(3) organizations Category:Non-profit organizations based in Connecticut