Red Cross / Red Crescent - An international

organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and

homeless in wartime, according to the terms of the
Geneva Convention of 1864, and now also during and
following natural disasters.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=red%20cross%20de
scription)
Doctors Without Borders - An international
humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization
(NGO) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, best known
for its projects in war-torn regions and developing
countries facing endemic diseases.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=doctors
+without+borders+definition)
Green Peace - An organization devoted to
environmental activism, founded in the United States
and Canada in 1971. Greenpeace has employed
passive resistance in opposition to commercial
whaling, the dumping of toxic waste into the sea, and
nuclear testing.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=greenpeace%20defi
nition)

YWCA/YMCA - a welfare movement that began in

London in 1844 and now has branches all over the
world.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=ymca+d
efinition)
CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence) - a
grass-roots charitable organization serving as a
non-partisan voice for all Canadians, working together
for safety, peace, and justice(http://www.caveat.org/)
Goodwill Industries - an American nonprofit
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://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=goodwill%20industri
es%20definition)
Street Kids International - a Canadian-based
non-governmental organization founded by Peter
Dalglish and Frank O'Dea in 1988.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=street%20kid%20int
ernational%20definition)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People (NAACP) - 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://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=national%20associa
tion%20for%20the%20advancement%20of%20colore
d%20people%20definition)
Oxfam - an international group established in
England in 1942 that provides help to poor countries
and disaster areas. An example is a group who brings
food to a starving nation.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=oxfam%20definition
)
International PEN - a worldwide association of writers,
founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and
intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst
ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=international%20pe
n%20definition)
Amnesty International (Video) - a non-governmental
organisation focused on human rights with over 7
million members and supporters around the world.
(https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-inst

ant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=amnesty%20interna
tional%20definition)