Mauli Ola Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Mauli Ola Foundation exists to introduce surfing as a natural treatment to people with genetic disorders. Since 2007 we have concentrated on the amazing connection between Surfing and Cystic Fibrosis. We have taken nearly 400 CF Patients Surfing at over 40 MOF Surf Experience Days. The MOF raises funds to support programs for kids and adults with life-threatening illnesses and disabilities through social events such as music concerts, sports tournaments, galas, and other great events. We want to provide a direct and immediate option for children with genetic disorders an enjoyable and healthy way of life through natural treatments.
Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust Meit
New ZealandAnimals/Wildlife
Maungatautariis an internationally significant restoration project, with 3,400 hectare forested, extinct volcano stands majestically on the landscape in the Waikato basin. We build and maintain a 47km totally pest-proof fence around the forest on Maungatautari, and eliminate ALL warm-blooded (mammalian) animal pests within the fence. We re-introduce threatened species that have been lost from Maungatautari, including kiwi, kokako, giant weta, and tuatara, while building visitor access gates and tracks and create a wildlife haven where visitors are welcome. We encourage visitors to come and enjoy the vibrant wildlife, and to experience a pest-free New Zealand forest.
Mautner Project
United StatesHuman Rights
Mautner Project was founded in 1990 following the death of Mary-Helen Mautner in 1989 of breast cancer. Shortly before her death, Mary-Helen asked her partner, Susan Hester, to start an organization that could help other lesbians facing the overwhelming challenges of life-threatening illnesses. Mautner Project envisions a health care system that is respectful of and accessible to all without regard for their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Our vision is a society in which all individuals are empowered with the knowledge to utilize these resources and to make appropriate choices for themselves.
MaxFund
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
We are a no-kill shelter that strives to take in and nurture any animal, with no known owner, and find homes for these animals once they have recovered. The future will change us, but not our goals. The nature of our work, and the nature of the kind of people who make that work possible, will keep us working hard to alleviate the suffering of creatures that didn’t deserve their fate. Also, to find them a home with loving people. We believe in second chances. No matter how large we become, we will always be the small shelter that makes a big difference.
Mayo Clinic
United StatesHealth/Medical
Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. Doctors from every medical specialty work together to care for patients, joined by common systems and a philosophy of "the needs of the patient come first".
Mays Mission for the Handicapped
United StatesDisability
Mays Mission for the Handicapped, Inc. is a non-profit organization that identifies and trains disabled individuals in graphic arts, lettershop, bindery, assembly, printing, and data processing. The Mission combines specialized instructors with disabled individuals with a desire to give them skilled vocational abilities. Neither a traditional educational institution nor a job placement agency, the Mission accomplishes the objections of both. To its disabled employees, the Mission offers an opportunity for a productive career. To its corporate clients, it offers high quality printing and direct mailing services at reduced costs.
Mazda Foundation
New ZealandCommunity/Family
The Mazda Foundation Trust is being established in 2005 as a public charitable trust to provide assistance to a broad cross – section of worthy charitable entities and causes throughout New Zealand which qualify for income tax deductibility. The Foundation is being established through generous donations from Mazda Motor Corporation and ongoing support from Mazda Motors of New Zealand through the sales of Mazda vehicles, Mazda Dealers and special fund raising activities.
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Founded in 1985, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is the only national Jewish nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to preventing and alleviating hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds. MAZON is a citizens' movement, the outgrowth of tens of thousands of American Jews who have stepped forward to solve one of the world's most devastating - and most preventable – problems. With their support, MAZON works to bring critical relief to millions of hungry people of all faiths and backgrounds.
MCAI
United KingdomHealth/Medical
MCAI (Maternal & Childhealth Advocacy International) is a charity dedicated to saving the lives of pregnant women, children and babies in countries where there is poor healthcare. Our volunteer senior doctors, midwives and nurses work with, support and train local health workers. We work in and advocate for hospitals and the community, integrating their work to improve and achieve sustainable healthcare. MCAI helps health services in disadvantaged countries to improve the treatment they can offer to children and pregnant mothers, it designs and delivers training in emergency treatment of children and mothers, appropriate for hospitals and clinics with modest resources, it runs outreach services which take hospital clinics out into the community where families can reach them, it re-equips paediatric wards and treat a variety of life-threatening health problems.
McCallie School
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in 1905, The McCallie School is an all-boys boarding and day school with approximately 900 students in grades 6-12. The McCallie School's mission is to prepare its students for college and for life. The school is dedicated to the academic, physical, spiritual, and emotional growth of boys. It seeks to inspire and motivate them: to pursue excellence and take pride in one's work and achievements; to lead lives of personal honor; to be responsible in family and personal relationships; and to manifest concern for the welfare of others. Since its founding, McCallie has remained committed to providing an outstanding college preparatory program for boys.
McCallum Theatre
United StatesArts/Culture
In May 1973, a group of Coachella Valley business, education and cultural leaders organized as Friends of the Cultural Center, Inc., and committed themselves to the creation of a state-of-the-art performing arts center. Their vision was to enhance and enrich the lives of desert residents by making the performing arts available to as many people as possible. Vision became reality in January 1988, with the opening of McCallum Theatre. Named for a pioneer desert family, the McCallum has gained acclaim as one of the country's finest presenting theatres by audiences, entertainers and peers alike. The McCallum Theatre Institute, established in September 1997, is the education division of the McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts. The Institute offers a spectrum of arts education programs for the community, including free activities for more than 37,200 schoolchildren and classroom teachers each year. The McCallum Theatre Institute seeks to enhance the role of the arts in our lives and in our community by inspiring greater awareness of their educational, cognitive, emotional and spiritual power. By encouraging an active and experiential study of the arts, the Institute advances the belief that all human beings are inherently creative.
McGrath Foundation
AustraliaWomen
The McGrath Foundation raises money to place McGrath Breast Care Nurses in communities right across Australia, as well as increasing breast awareness in young Australian women. Our breast care nurses are specially trained registered nurses who act as patient advocates, coordinating care for women experiencing breast cancer, their families and their carers. They provide accurate information, support and referral to services.
Meals on Wheels and More
United StatesCommunity/Family
Meals on Wheels and More began in 1972 as an East Austin-based, grassroots organization staffed by only eight volunteers. In 1994 four additional programs – Medi Wheels, Care Calls, Handy Wheels, and Groceries to Go – had been incorporated, and the meal-delivery program was serving over 1,000 people. Today, Meals on Wheels and More delivers daily meals to about 2,000 homebound and disabled persons with the help of 3,000 volunteers and runs eight additional programs designed to keep our clients healthy.
Meals on Wheels Association of America
United StatesCommunity/Family
The Meals On Wheels Association of America is the oldest and largest national organization composed of and representing local, community-based Senior Nutrition Programs in all 50 U.S. states, as well as the U.S. Territories. These local programs are our MOWAA Members. These programs provide well over one million meals to seniors who need them each day. Some programs serve meals at congregate locations like senior centers, some programs deliver meals directly to the homes of seniors whose mobility is limited, and many programs provide both services.
Meath Epilepsy Trust
United KingdomDisability
The Meath Epilepsy Trust was founded in 1892 by Mary, Countess of Meath, a forward-thinking philanthropist and a woman of great compassion. Today, the Trust operates one of the most advanced centres in the UK caring for adults who have severe epilepsy coupled with a learning and/or a physical disability. Situated within beautiful grounds just 5 minutes from Godalming town centre, the Meath is a ‘Centre of Excellence’ providing professional and proactive support in an environment as close to home as we can make it.
Medair
SwitzerlandHumanitarian Aid
Medair brings life-saving relief and rehabilitation in disasters, conflict areas, and other crises by working alongside the most vulnerable. We are a non-governmental organisation (NGO), with internationally recruited staff who are motivated by their Christian faith to care for people in need. Our work is compassionate and practical, providing life-saving care and support that upholds the dignity and independence of every person, regardless of race, religion, or politics.
Medecins Sans Frontieres
SwitzerlandHumanitarian Aid
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existant, MSF collaborates with authorities such as the Ministry of Health to provide assistance. MSF works in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, vaccination programmes and water and sanitation projects. MSF also works in remote health care centres, slum areas and provides training of local personnel. All this is done with the objective of rebuilding health structures to acceptable levels.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid in more than 60 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters or exclusion from healthcare. In emergencies and their aftermath, MSF rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, performs surgery, battles epidemics, carries out vaccination campaigns, operates feeding centres for malnourished children and offers MSF Logomental health care. When needed, MSF also constructs wells, dispenses clean drinking water, and provides shelter materials like blankets and plastic sheeting. Through longer-term programmes, MSF treats patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and HIV/AIDS and provides medical and psychological care to marginalized groups such as street children.
Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders
United StatesHealth/Medical
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols.
Media Matters
IndiaCommunity/Family
Media Matters, a registered non-profit trust, works in the area of development communication with a rights-based, participatory and process-oriented approach for the past 10 years now. We have worked with poor and marginalised groups and communities in urban slums, rural and tribal areas in Maharashtra and across states. We have partnered with NGOs, academic institutions, government departments, UN and other international agencies.