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Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival: nuclear weapons, climate change, toxics in the environment.

To engage in charitable and environmental educational activities to protect public health.

Protecting the health of Oregonians through the reduction of toxic air pollution.

We are Canadians who want to reduce suicide and its impact in Canada. We represent experts and volunteers, school and community suicide prevention initiatives, mental health workers, researchers, crisis centres and families who have been impacted by suicide. We are survivors of loss. Among us, we have lost children, parents, family members, neighbours, friends, patients and clients. So have most of you. We want to end the silence. We want to ease the suffering, to heal our communities and our neighbours, as we have healed ourselves. We want to prevent others from experiencing such pain and such loss.

Established in 1965, Street Haven was one of the first shelters for women in Toronto. We are dedicated to providing help and support to women in need. We serve women who are abused, homeless, socially isolated and those living in poverty as well as women who come from abusive situations or have mental health, alcoholism and/or addiction challenges. We provide emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing, a drop-in centre & food program, addiction case management, residential addictions programs, education programs and recreational/social opportunities. Women who use our services find ways to improve the quality of their lives.

Therapeutic Paws of Canada is a national Non-Profit volunteer organization providing dog and cat visitation resources for human needs (physical, mental, educational, motivational, and socialization) through regular visits to hospitals, residences, schools, etc.

Safe Workers of Tomorrow provides workplace health and safety information to students at no cost to the school, anywhere in Manitoba. Our presentations range from a one hour general health and safety presentation, to a full day health and safety practicum. Topics covered in the presentations include worker rights and employer responsibilities, hazard recognition and control, health and safety legislation and WHMIS, and injury reporting and the role of the Workers Compensation Board. Presentations are delivered by energetic and knowledgeable SAFE Workers of Tomorrow staff and volunteers who employ a variety of techniques to engage participants and foster student led discussions. Students receive a workplace safety and health resource book and other useful take away items to help them after the presentation is done.

STRIDE is a non-profit, community based vocational rehabilitation program founded in 1983. STRIDE is the only Halton-based organization whose primary purpose is to serve the employment needs of residents who are living with a mental illness or addiction issue.

To improve and; maintain the ecological health of the Poudre River watershed through community collaboration.

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

The mission of the Odyssey Conservation Trust is to conserve biodiversity through local and indigenous women. We improve the quality of life of women by using a holistic approach which links their well-being to the health of their environment and the health of their animals - an approach called One Health. By valorizing their traditional environmental knowledge and breaking the poverty cycle into which local women's lives are entangled, we promote the role of indigenous women as custodians of unique biocultural heritages.

WE WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO CONSERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND BEAUTY OF THE KINNICKINNIC RIVER AND ITS WATERSHED.