Red Cross / Red Crescent The Canadian Red Cross is one of

the leading charity organizations in Canada, and it is committed to

providing aid and support to both Canadians and individuals in need
around the world.
http://www.redcross.ca/about-us/red-cross-stories/2013/canadian-redcross-works-with-afghan-red-crescent-society-to-provide-humanitarian-aid

Doctors Without Borders Doctors Without Borders /

Medicines Sans Frontiers Canada (MSF) is an international
humanitarian aid agency that won the Nobel Peace Prize in
1999 for its heroic work to help victims of disease and war
http://charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/81-doctors-without-borders

Green Peace Candidates must understand and support

Greenpeaces campaigning style, including the use of peaceful civil
disobedience.
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/About-us/Employment/

YWCA/YMCA The YMCA of Western Ontario's mission is to be a

multi-service charity that provides opportunities for personal growth in
spirit, mind and body for people of all backgrounds, beliefs and abilities.
http://ymcawo.ca/about

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD) Led by former Toronto

mayor John Sewell and his group Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD), the
opposition exploded, from 30 allies huddled at Lawrence Park Collegiate to
more than 1,000 at weekly meetings.
The cities about to be banished to the woodpile of history held
referendums on the same day. The province promised to ignore the results.
Some 76 per cent of voters opposed merger, prompting the Star headline:
"Mega No to megacity."
http://www.thestar.com/news/2008/01/01/amalgamation_10_years_later.html

CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence) In August 1991

a small group of unlikely activists started a petition addressed to the
Federal Government as an expression of local horror, fear, and a deep
and abiding anger at a system that had failed us so horribly. We
intended the circulation to last for six weeks. It became the largest
petition in Canadian history with 3 million signatures.

http://womencan.ca/news/caveat_canadians_against_violence_1991_2001

Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries International Inc. is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3)
organization that provides job training, employment placement services, and other
community-based programs for people who have disabilities. In addition, Goodwill
Industries may hire veterans, individuals that lack education or job experience, or face
employment challenges. Goodwill is funded by a massive network of retail thrift
stores which operate as nonprofits as well.
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. The organization
focuses on providing street youth with the opportunity to lead safer and better lives
through three main programmer avenues: street health, street work and street rights.
In 2008, Street Kids International expanded its operations to the United Kingdom with
Street Kids International UK.
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) is
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909
by Moorefield Story, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Its mission is "to
ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons
and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. Its name, retained in
accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored
_People

Oxfam
About Oxfam Canada:
Oxfam Canada (OC), founded in 1963, is one of 17 organizations of the
international Oxfam confederation. It works with over 100 partners in local
communities to tackle the root causes of poverty, injustice and inequality.
OC believes that ending global poverty begins with promoting women's
rights. OC mobilizes people and resources to change policies, practices,
attitudes and behaviors that create inequality and human suffering.
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/197-oxfam-canada

International PEN
PEN Canada is one of the 148 centers of PEN International. Founded in 1926, it has a
membership of over 1,000 writers and supporters who campaign on behalf of writers
around the world who are persecuted, imprisoned and exiled for exercising their right
to freedom of expression.
Since the founding, various PEN Centers around the world have campaigned on
behalf of such acclaimed writers as Czech playwright Vaclav Havel, Nobel Peace Prize
winner Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, novelist Salman Rushdie and Turkeys 2006 Nobel
laureate in literature, Orhan Pamuk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN_Canada

Amnesty International (Video)

Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the
human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other
international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision, Amnesty's mission is
to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of
the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and
freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human
rights.
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/amnesty-international-canadian-sectionenglish-speaking-national-office/