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Human Rights Watch (HRW) is watching out for everyone. Human Rights Watch mission is to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people during wartime, and bring offenders to justice. HRW researches human rights violations around the world and publishes its findings to help generate publicity about the atrocities it uncovers. Human Rights Watch also meets with national and international governing officials to help steer policy change. Along with partner organizations, HRW won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its International Campaign to Ban Landmines. HRW is an independent organization; all funds come from private contributors. Human Rights Watch was founded in 1978.

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) strives to protect women's rights and improve women's quality of life around the world. International Center for Research on Women researches women's issues, advocates for policy development, and offers technical assistance to women in more than 40 countries. ICRW works to improve women's economic, health, and social status in developing nations around issues including HIV/AIDS, nutrition and food security, reproductive health, violence against women, and poverty reduction. The not-for-profit organization was formed in 1976 to help understand the role of women in developing nations.

JA Worldwide teaches smaller people about big business. Doing business as Junior Achievement (JA), the organization educates students in grades K-12 about business, economics, and free enterprise. JA Worldwide conducts its activities in more than 100 countries. JA's programs reach 8.3 million children each year and focus on such areas as citizenship, career development, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and ethics, among others. Some 287,000 classroom volunteers assist with the organization's activities through about 140 chapters nationwide. JA Worldwide funding comes from individual contributions and corporate donations. The group was established in 1919. While Junior Achievement was started in 1919, its first official home was not ready until 1925. The original JA headquarters building was located in Springfield, MA.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. engages in the computerized preparation of federal, state, and local individual income tax returns in the United States. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. also engages in the electronic filing of the customers tax returns. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. offers its services through a network of franchised and company-owned tax offices operating under the Jackson Hewitt Tax Service brand name. In addition, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. offers a range of financial products, such as refund anticipation loans, which are made by a third party financial institution to a customer and secured by a customer's anticipated federal tax refund; assisted refunds that are provided by third party financial institutions, which offer customers with the ability to have their tax return preparation fees and other charges withheld directly from their tax refund; and gold guarantee, an extended warranty that a customer may purchase whereby the taxpayer may be reimbursed up to a set limit for any additional tax liability owed due to an error in the preparation of the customer's tax return. Further, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. provides various disbursement options for financial products, including direct deposit, check, or on the ipower Card, a prepaid Visa card. As of April 30, 2009, its network comprised 5,610 franchised offices and 974 company-owned offices. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.

The Jewish Funds for Justice (JFJ) leaves anti-defamation to the other guys and just concentrates on poverty, which it considers the greatest injustice. The not-for-profit organization has helped more than 500 grassroots groups that assist people of all religions in areas such as health care, education, employment, and housing. Jewish Funds for Justice supports the Jewish values of community (kehilah) and hope (tikvah) and seeks to educate Jewish people about social justice and issues related to poverty. JFJ was founded in 1984 to give Jews a national platform for supporting social and economic justice. Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ) was created in 2006.

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