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CERA is an Ontario-based non-profit organization established to promote human rights in housing. Our staff and volunteers work with low income and other disadvantaged households to challenge discriminatory practices in the rental housing market, and to help these individuals and families access and retain the housing they need. We do this through directly assisting individuals experiencing discrimination, representing human rights claimants at the Ontario Human Rights Commission, public education, research, and test case litigation related to poverty, housing and human rights. CERA is the only organization in Canada that focuses on fighting discrimination in housing and using human rights legislation to challenge housing insecurity and homelessness. All of our services are free. CERA is sustained through project funding and direct fundraising. We receive no core funding.

MARL holds a variety of innovative set of educational activities public events, including an annual Human Rights Film Festival and public lectures. MARL works in schools helping develop teachers’ skills to help support curriculum and run the 'Leadership in Social Justice Program'. This unique approach inspires youth about social justice issues and empowers them to take action by building the skills to run programs focusing on issues in their communities. MARL works to change policies to uphold rights through legislative review by preparing briefs and studies at all levels of government. MARL also provides referral and legal information in response to inquiries from individuals. For young people interested in learning about their rights, MARL has developed the Under 18 Handbook, a Legal Guide for Manitoba Teens. This free handbook is available in hardcopy and on our website.

The New Page Human Services Programs: 1. Story Time in the Park is a barrier-free family literacy program that operates in the summer in Hope, Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs and Boston Bar. Each week families come to the park, receive a free copy of a children's book, listen to the story while following along in their own copy. A light lunch and entertainment is provided. 2. Fraser Cascade Literacy Centre -volunteer tutors help adults in reading, writing, math, and computers. Literacy resources available. 3. Pages Bookstore- Used books sold and profits go back into literacy programs. The bookstore is also a drop-in centre for people with disabilities and mental health issues. Some of these people are volunteers in the bookstore.

IICRD is a non-profit, charitable organization affiliated with Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. It is a unique, hybrid organization focused on social innovation with and for children and youth. We are: • Part NGO to work in communities, accomplish social objectives, and learn from and pass on the benefits of grass-roots experience; • Part academic institute to contribute to the best available research and scientific thinking, and to train scholar practitioners; and, • Part network to engage with the most productive knowledge and ideas for working with children and youth from all around the world, disseminating what is learned to others, and helping shape local, national, and international policies that can change the world through children. We have been working on issues affecting children’s lives locally, nationally, regionally and internationally since 1994.

AFIRE's mission is to build the capacity of the Filipino American community of Chicago to affect transformative social change through grassroots education, action, research, and services.

To facilitate a non-political movement for positive social change and community empowerment through mass literacy, enhanced quality of education, universal primary healthcare and grassroots economic development.

ACT Alberta is a coalition comprised of government ministries, nongovernmental organizations, survivors of trafficking and volunteers concerned with identifying and responding to human trafficking in Alberta. ACT Alberta operates through community driven ACT Chapters, located in urban and rural areas of Alberta. These Chapters address all forms of trafficking including labour and sexual exploitation, domestic and international trafficking.