Red Cross / Red Crescent: The Canadian Red Cross

mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by

mobilizing the power of humanity in Canada and around the
world. http://www.redcross.ca/about-us/about-the-canadianred-cross

Doctors Without Borders : They are Doctors Without

Borders/Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF). They help people
worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency
medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics,
disasters, or exclusion from health care.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Green Peace : Greenpeace exists because this

fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It
needs change. It needs action. Greenpeace is an
independent global campaigning organization that
acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect
and conserve the environment and to promote
peace by:

Creating an energy revolution to address the

number one threat facing our planet: climate
change.
Protecting the world's ancient forests and the
animals, plants and people that depend
on http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Ab
out-us/

YWCA/YMCA: The YMCA of Greater Toronto is part of

YMCA Canada. As a federation of 45 YMCAs and 5 YMCAYWCAs across the country, YMCA Canada has three primary
goals: http://www.ymca.ca/

To foster the development of strong Member

Associations and encourage collaborative initiative;
To protect and enhance the reputation of the YMCA and
To advocate on behalf of Member Associations
regionally, nationally and internationally

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD): Were

dedicated to making democracy work for everyone. We pursue
projects where citizens can make a positive impact on tough policy
issues, community problems, and divisive campaign practices. We
work with communities and other organizations to identify issues,
offer resources to educate the public, and create meaningful
opportunities for discussion and action to solve problems and
strengthen our democracy. http://jefferson-center.org/what-we-do/

CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence): CAVEAT is

a grass-roots charitable organization serving as a nonpartisan voice for all Canadians, working together for safety,
peace, and justice. http://www.caveat.org/

Goodwill Industries: Goodwill Industries, Ontario

Great Lakes (Goodwill) is committed to meeting the

objectives and requirements outlined in the Accessibility
for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the applicable
regulations, and to meeting the accessibility needs of
persons with disabilities in a timely manner, through the
implementation of the requirements of the Act and its
applicable regulations. This Plan applies to all divisions of
Goodwill. http://goodwillindustries.ca/accessibility-plan/

Street Kids International: Street Kids International

works across borders to help street kids help themselves.
We focus on those who work with street kids at the local
level - front-line workers who can respect their
individuality, understand their dilemmas, and create
opportunities for them to build better lives. We help street
kids by creating and sharing innovative approaches to
both urgent needs and underlying
causes. http://orgs.tigweb.org/street-kids-international

National Association for the Advancement of

Colored People (NAACP): Founded in 1909, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) was one of the earliest and most
influential civil rights organization in the United States.
During its early years, the NAACP focused on legal
strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights
issues of the day. They called for federal anti-lynching
laws and coordinated a series of challenges to statesponsored segregation in public schools, an effort that led
to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown .
http://www.naacp.org/pages/our-mission

Oxfam: Oxfam is an international confederation of 17

organizations working in approximately 94 countries
worldwide to find solutions to poverty and what it
considers injustice around the world.[1] In all Oxfam's
actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise
their rights and manage their own lives. Oxfam works
directly with communities and seeks to influence the
powerful, to ensure that poor people can improve their
lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that
affect them. Each organization (affiliate) works together
internationally to achieve a greater impact through
collective efforts. https://www.oxfam.org/en/work

International PEN: Helps free writers who are

persecuted and, in many countries, imprisoned and
tortured simply for expressing themselves.
Fights censorship and defends the right to freedom of
expression. PEN has intervened in a number of landmark
legal cases in the name of journalistic integrity and artistic
freedom.
Educates Canadian students, through visits to schools
made by writers in exile, about the importance of freedom
of expression.
Researches and documents contemporary international
violations of freedom of expression.
Amnesty International (Video): Amnesty
International is a global movement of over 7 million people
in more than 150 countries working together to protect and
promote human rights.

Our vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all

the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and other international human rights
instruments.
Our mission is to conduct research and generate action to
prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to
demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.
http://www.amnesty.ca/about-us