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-canadian-
red-cross

Doctors Without Borders

We are Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans
Frontires (MSF). We 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/about-us

Green Peace

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning

organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour,
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 them.
Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and
destructive fishing, and creating a global network of
marine reserves.
Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by rejecting
genetically engineered organisms, protecting
 biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible
farming.
Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to
hazardous chemicals in today's products and
manufacturing.
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/About-us/

YWCA/YMCA
The YMCA takes a holistic approach to community
health that embodies all aspects of physical, mental
and social well-being. We engage with the community
to provide customized programs that support local
needs while embracing diversity. The YMCA of Greater
Toronto is dedicated to making our communities home
to the healthiest children, teens and young adults.
https://ymcagta.org/about-us

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD)

CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence)

CAVEAT is a grass-roots charitable organization
serving as a non-partisan voice for all Canadians,
working together for safety, peace, and justice.
Our means of support is a community of Canadian
shaken by senseless acts of violence and injustice.
Our membership consists of victims, the general
public, and includes a large youth contingent. The
fact that over 80% of our members are not yet direct
victims of violent crime gives our work balance and
perspective. It shows that Canadians are deeply
concerned about crime and public safety. CAVET also
works with World Society of Victimology,
 Germany,National Organization for Victim Assistance
(NOVA), Washington, D.C.,National Victim Center,
Forth Worth, Texas,National Justice Network, Ottawa,
Bereavement Ontario Network, Crime Prevention
Ontario.
www.caveat.org/
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill strives to enhance the dignity and
quality of life of individuals and families by helping
people reach their full potential through education,
skills training and the power of work.
Goodwills meet the needs of all job seekers, including
programs for youth, seniors, veterans, and people
with disabilities, criminal backgrounds and other
specialized needs.

www.goodwill.org/about-us/
Street Kids International

National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People (NAACP)
The mission of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure
the political, educational, social, and economic
equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-
based discrimination. the principal objectives of the
Association shall be:To ensure the political,
educational, social, and economic equality of all
citizens, To achieve equality of rights and eliminate
race prejudice among the citizens of the United
States, To remove all barriers of racial discrimination
through democratic processes, To seek enactment
and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws
securing civil rights,To inform the public of the
 adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek
its elimination, To educate persons as to their
constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to
secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other
lawful action in furtherance of these objectives,
consistent with the NAACPs Articles of Incorporation
and this Constitution.
http://www.naacp.org/about-us/

Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of 18
organizations working together with partners and
local communities in more than 90 countries. One
person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is
determined to change that world by mobilizing the
power of people against poverty
https://www.oxfam.org/
International PEN
PEN International promotes literature and freedom
of expression and is governed by the PEN Charter
and the principles it embodies: unhampered
transmission of thought within each nation and
between all nations. Today PEN International
connects an international community of writers from
its Secretariat in London, spanning over 100
countries, with 149 PEN Centres worldwide.Our
campaigns, events and programmes connect writers
and readers, strengthen freedom of expression,
defend linguistic rights and promote quality
education at the national, regional and international
level across the globe.
http://www.pen-international.org/who-we-are/
Amnesty International (Video)