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MISSION Women for Afghan Women (WAW) is dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and the U.S. In particular, WAW works to help Afghan women and girls exercise their rights to pursue their individual potential to self-determination, and to representation in all areas of life—political, social, cultural, and economic. WAW relentlessly advocates for women's rights and challenges the norms that underpin gender-based violence wherever opportunities arise to influence attitudes and bring about change.VISIONA world in which Afghan women and girls enjoy peace, justice, equality, and freedom to participate in all spheres of life and live without fear. A world in which all women and their families thrive and prosper.

STRATFORD ACADEMY IS AN INDEPENDENT, NON-SECTARIAN, COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS IN PRE-KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWELVE. GUIDED BY THE MOTTO, "FREEDOM FOR EXCELLENCE", STRATFORD PROVIDES A SUPERIOR EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS WITH DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS AND TALENTS AND DEVELOPS RESPONSIBLE, ETHICAL, LIFE-LONG LEARNERS. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAMILIES, STUDENTS, AND FACULTY, STRATFORD - PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO DEVELOP THEIR INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES AND SKILLS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A RIGOROUS CURRICULUM. - BUILDS CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY BY OFFERING STUDENTS A VARIETY OF ETHICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES THROUGH THE CURRICULUM AND SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY. - ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO ENGAGE IN A WIDE RANGE OF ACADEMIC, ATHLETIC, FINE ARTS, AND SERVICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES. - INSPIRES LEADERSHIP AND PREPARES STUDENTS FOR RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP AND CITIZENSHIP.

Our Vision - All people have the resources they need for mental health and full participation in community life. CMHA-Edmonton Region is a non-profit volunteer agency. It functions as a community centre promoting mental health. It works in partnership with other community agencies to educate about mental health and illness, to advocate for better conditions in the community and to help people build strong supports for community life. This is accomplished through social action, public education, direct service programs, housing and other special agency projects. The agency's operation is governed by the Mental Health Act, the Health Information Act, the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act, the Companies Act, the Protections of Persons in Care Act and the Personal Information Protection Act.

VISION: Love the experience VALUES: ACCOUNTABILITY: Taking responsibility for meeting the library service needs of the community in an efficient, effective and fiscally responsible manner. ACCESSIBILITY: Ensuring library services are accessible to the community-regardless of indvidual circumstances. COMMUNICATION: Engaging in open dialogue, listening attentively, and responding in such a way as to cultivate understanding and strengthen relationships. INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Facilitating access to all expressions of knowledge and intellectual activity. INNOVATION: Constantly challenging current practices, initiating breakthrough improvements, and creating new standards of performance. PARTNERSHIPS: Seeking mutually beneficial partnerships and links with the community to maximize community resources and benefits. QUALITY SERVICE: Providing customer-driven service with professionalism. TRUST AND RESPECT: Acting in good faith and understanding and appreciating differences.

UNA-Canada strives for a better world. We focus on the UN issues of peace and security, sustainable development, human rights, and global cooperation. We work directly with youth and educators, building the capacity of young Canadians able to effect positive global change. We foster Canadian support for the UN and the values that drive it - freedom, equity, tolerance, non-violence, respect for nature and shared responsibility. We also help define foreign policy priorities for the Canadian Government. OUR FUNDS: General - supports national projects; Membership - is both national and local; Projects - supports specific national projects/programmes; Reserve - invested, providing ongoing national support; Branch - supports local volunteer-driven initiatives.

The Alter-Ciné Foundation was created in the memory of Canadian filmmaker, Yvan Patry, who passed away on October 1999. Patry was a co-founder of the production company Alter Ciné and directed numerous documentaries and current affairs programs in Africa, Latin America and Asia: "… documentaries should go against the tide," he said, "they should bear witness and spur us to action." Patry’s documentaries have contributed to tearing down walls of silence, denouncing injustice and barbarism, and giving voice to victims of horror. The Alter-Ciné Foundation is inspired by this ethics. The Foundation offers a 10,000 US$ yearly grant to young filmmakers from Africa, Asia and Latin America to enable them to direct a documentary film on the theme of rights and freedoms.

CityReach Care Society offers a range of programs and activities focused on serving the tangible needs of the community(such as our Food for Families, Club Freedom and Out of School Care programs)as well as providing opportunity for personal growth and development. We realize that our community faces some challenging circumstances around the issue of poverty, however, we believe that the human spirit is tenacious and with the right encouragement and support, families can move beyond poverty into a place of prosperity. The dictionary definition of "prosper" is to render successful, to thrive, to make gain, to grow, to increase, to make steady progress, to flourish-essentially it is the opposite of poverty and we are passionately committed to providing programs and activities that will help families and individuals in our community prosper in all areas of life.

Amherst College educates men and women of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.   Amherst brings together the most promising students, whatever their financial need, in order to promote diversity of experience and ideas within a purposefully small residential community. Working with faculty, staff, and administrators dedicated to intellectual freedom and the highest standards of instruction in the liberal arts, Amherst undergraduates assume substantial responsibility for undertaking inquiry and for shaping their education within and beyond the curriculum. Amherst College is committed to learning through close colloquy and to expanding the realm of knowledge through scholarly research and artistic creation at the highest level. Its graduates link learning with leadership—in service to the College, to their communities, and to the world beyond.

The art defines the identity! louisAYOTTE | pierDuFOUR >artistic directors Puppet: the instrument of all possible! It only limited by the imagination. It requires complicity, collusion, inspiration, carries enchantment and ideal manipulative dreams, creative freedom and inaccessible, weaves images that arise through gesture and movement. Kobol proposes a dialogue with the audience, invents a contemporary language, sometimes experimental and offers all the means at its disposal to satisfy this need to say and imaging thought, refine its signature and provide artists a level playing field that allows them deepen their efforts. Our poetry both visual and musical gives birth over our inspiring finds in a universe where affection rubs humor, humanity and reflections. Breaking conveniences, open the doors of imagination and share the magic!

The Elora Centre for the Arts is a vibrant and community oriented arts organization that inspires and stimulates artistic excellence, aesthetic maturity and critical insight through exhibition, performance and education. It is model of of artistic endeavor and education. It provides opportunities for both artists and the broader community to engage in artistic pursuits of all kinds in a designate heritage building in the village of Elora. The ECFTA offers innovative and creative programs in a broad range of disciplines including visual arts, spoken word, live music, dance and crafts. The ECFTA serves as a home for the local and regional artistic community and provides a venue for people of all ages to experience enriching artistic activities and expression. The Centre is a leader in and encourages artistic freedom of expression, innovation and creativity. Through our arts education programming, we encourage youth to embrace the arts as integral to life.

Founded in 1973 by a collective of Edmonton artists, Latitude 53 Society of Artists is a not-for-profit artist-run centre. Latitude 53 provides a non-coercive environment to assure the freedom of the artist, and give the public access to new art forms of expression. Latitude 53 supports the research and development of new artistic practices and concepts, and encourages experimentation by artists through diverse programming. In an attempt to more clearly reflect who we are and what we do as Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture, rather than Society of Artists, we feel strongly that this new name more clearly represents and communications what we do and where we are going in the future. While experimentation in visual culture is the emphasis of the work that Latitude 53 facilitates, we seek work with artists in a variety of disciplines to become a locus for experimental culture.

Little Pear Garden Collective is currently focused on two dimensions: opera and dance. As the company moves towards bringing more creative new works to the public, we are currently in the process of launching a new entity of works that is a combination of theatre and dance with a contemporary approach. This change in course will allow the organization to have more creative and artistic freedom to express our imagination, spontaneity and vision. It is a natural course for our organization to progress and combine the strength of the theatre portion of Chinese opera with Chinese dance; this will allow us to expand our repertoire. We continue to work with artists from diverse ethnic backgrounds and artistic disciplines to produce works of high artistic value and quality. We enjoy bringing performances to the public by combining variable resources and bridging the gap of diversity. This helps to create more tolerance and understanding among diverse cultures through art.