About the Penny Bolin Foundation

Creating an Empowered Environment for Sustained Wholeness.

The Penny Bolin Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on human trafficking education, awareness, prevention, and positive community impact.

We believe informed communities are better equipped to recognize exploitation, respond to warning signs, protect vulnerable people, and create safer communities. Our work brings together educators, healthcare professionals, law enforcement, social service organizations, faith communities, businesses, leaders, and individuals.

Our Mission

To educate, equip, and empower individuals and communities through human trafficking awareness, prevention, and collaborative education while encouraging personal empowerment, wellness, and meaningful community impact.

Our Core Values

• Education: Knowledge creates awareness and opportunities for prevention.
• Prevention: Proactive education can reduce vulnerabilities and support early intervention.
• Dignity: Every person deserves respect, compassion, and value.
• Empowerment: People deserve knowledge, resources, and opportunities to build stronger futures.
• Collaboration: Meaningful change happens when communities work together.
• Wholeness: Growth includes care for the whole person.
• Voice: Every story and every person deserves to be heard with dignity.

A Message From Penny Bolin

People matter, communities deserve to be informed, and every individual deserves dignity and respect. Education is one of our greatest tools because we cannot prevent what we do not recognize.

Our primary mission is human trafficking education, awareness, and prevention. Through associated initiatives, we also support empowerment, wellness, restoration, and opportunities for people to move forward.

We don’t rehearse and revisit the old; we build on the New.