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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.

The Human Development Foundation has been operating community-building programs in the several poverty-stricken areas of Pakistan for 10 years. HDF follows the Human Development philosophy of "helping people help themselves" HDF has mobilized and organized communities and helped them build and staff health care facilities, open and staff schools, build dams and water pumps so entire villages could have fresh, safe drinking water, build roads to join communities and create micro-credit programs that allow individuals and communities to break the cycle of poverty and have a sustainable opportunity for self-sufficiency. HDF provides a grassroots level, multidisciplinary approach to development that is increasingly being viewed as the most applicable by both academics and practitioners in the field. In each year of its existence, it has grown and has helped, at the grassroots level, more and more people. Today, over 200,000 have been direct recipients of HDF services.

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.

The Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children is a national group of individuals and organizations dedicated to children's rights. Activities are supervised and implemented by a volunteer board of directors, who are elected by the members.