Advocacy: Actions to ensure that individuals or populations have basic human rights and justice: “Advocacy pleads someone’s cause or acts on someone’s behalf, with a focus on developing the community, system, individual, or family’s capacity to plead their own cause or act on their own behalf”.
Charity: Giving of oneself (volunteering) or of one’s resources to those in need.
Civic Engagement: Working with community members to improve the civic life of the community through social and political actions based on an understanding of the community, its diversity, assets, and problems.
Ethnicity: A collective group of individuals with presumed common ancestry sharing cultural symbol and prac- tices. Individual identification of ethnicity may be voluntary and self-defined