Red Cross / Red Crescent: The Red Cross and Red

Crescent Societies is the worlds largest humanitarian

network that reaches 150 million people in 190 National
Societies. What they do is they help people who are injured
in accidents and help improve the lives of vulnerable
people.
Doctors Without Borders: They help people worldwide
where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical
aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or
exclusions from health care.
Greenpeace: 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, protecting
the worlds ancient forests, defending our oceans,
campaigning for sustainable agriculture and creating a toxic
free future.
YWCA/YMCA: Is Ottawas leading resource for health,
fitness and recreation, childcare, camping and outdoor
education, and social services. It improves health of
individuals, promotes child and youth development,
facilitates individual self-reliance, and develops healthier
communities and vital neighbourhoods.

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD): was a nonpartisan, citizen action group that emerged in December

1996 to oppose provincially-imposed municipal

amalgamation on seven Toronto-area municipalities.
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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: a non-profit social enterprise,

provides work opportunities, skills development and
employee and family strengthening for those who face
barriers such as disability or social disadvantage; with the
aim of advancing individuals, families and communities
toward self-sufficiency and prosperity.
Street Kids International: The organization focuses on
providing street youth with the opportunity to lead safer and
better lives through three main program avenues: street
health, street work and street rights.
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.
Oxfam: Oxfam Canada works with people to secure their
basic human rights, combining support to long-term

development and humanitarian responses with research,

advocacy and campaigning against the root causes of
poverty and injustice.
International PEN: PEN International is the worlds leading
association of writers, working to promote literature and
defend freedom of expression around the world.
Amnesty International (Video): Amnesty International is a
global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting
human rights. uncover the truth about human rights abuses,
and mobilize individuals to act so that human rights abuses
are stopped, individuals and communities are protected, and
perpetrators of human rights violations are brought to justice.