Red Cross / Red Crescent

The Canadian Red Cross Society is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization and one of
190 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as well as an Non-Governmental Organization
(NGO). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Red_Cross

Doctors Without Borders

Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF), also known in some English-speaking regions (especially the
United States) as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian non-governmental
organization (NGO) best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries affected
by endemic diseases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res

Green Peace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 40 countries
and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace

YWCA/YMCA
The National Capital Region Y
MCA-YWCA is a community-based Association dedicated to
improving the quality of life for children, youth, adults and families.
www.ymcaywca.ca/

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD)

Toronto political group promoting democratic decision making, public services, and a
thoroughly progressive tax system. w
ww.toronto.net Community Political Organizations
CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence)

Priscilla de Villiers is a Canadian activist. She was the founder and president of CAVEAT, an
organization advocating governmental policy on crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_de_Villiers

Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries International Inc. is an American nonprofit 501 organization that provides job
training, employment placement services, and other community-based programs for people who
have barriers preventing them from otherwise obtaining a job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_Industries

Street Kids International

Street Kids International (or Street Kids) is a Canadian-based non-governmental organization
founded by Peter Dalglish and Frank O'Dea in 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Kids_International

National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People (NAACP)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)[a]
is an
African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey,
Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People

Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable organizations focused on the alleviation of
global poverty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam

International PEN
A worldwide association, with a membership of prominent literary writers and editors
www.pen-international.org/

Amnesty International (Video)

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is a non-governmental

organisation focused on human rights with over 7 million members and supporters around the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
world.