Lunchbox Theatre
South AfricaArts/Culture
Lunchbox Theatre is a diverse, dynamic and creative team working together to achieve our vision of having theatre projects as primary awareness raising tools for important issues that are relevant to South Africa's youth. As a fully registered Non-Profit Organization, Lunchbox Theatre focuses on an interactive style of theatre that incorporates music, dance and storytelling, thereby creating theatre that appeals to all ages. LBT creates original and innovative theatre pieces that draw on African influences. Our shows usually convey a message or confront an issue that is relevant to the audience.
Lungevity Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
LUNGevity Foundation was founded by seven Chicago-area lung cancer survivors in November 2000 to increase funding for lung cancer research. LUNGevity Foundation is the premier grant-making nonprofit organization funding lung cancer research and providing support to people affected by lung cancer. In order to fulfill its mission, the Foundation: funds the most promising, and innovative medical research into diagnosis, treatment, and cure of lung cancer, and provides emotional support for lung cancer survivors and their loved ones by creating community.
Lupus Foundation of America
United StatesResearch/Dev
Lupus affects more than 1.5 million Americans, and at least 5 million people worldwide. The LFA was established in 1977 when local lupus organizations came together to bring national attention and resources to lupus. Since that time, the LFA has evolved into the field’s preeminent nonprofit lupus organization with nearly 300 chapters and support groups nationwide. The LFA plays a key role in bringing together all stakeholders, researchers, clinicians, elected officials, policy makers, industry leaders, other national organizations, and people affected by lupus, to address lupus on the federal, state and local levels. We do this through advancing the medicine and science of lupus, creating awareness of the disease, advocating on behalf of all people with lupus and supporting people with lupus and their professional health care providers.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
United StatesHuman Rights
Since 1939 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has worked to create welcoming communities for newcomers—immigrants and refugees who have been forced to leave their homes and begin anew. We help people seeking safety from persecution in their home countries and reunite families torn apart by conflict. We resettle refugees. We protect vulnerable children who arrive alone in the United States. We advocate for compassion and justice for all migrants. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is a champion for all uprooted people.
Lutheran World Relief
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Every day in 35 countries, Lutheran World Relief works to combat the causes of poverty and the dignity it robs from people’s lives. We advocate for Fair Trade that helps farming families and artisans earn a better income. We teach people to better care for themselves, their communities and the environment. We teach people how to be less vulnerable to natural disasters. We advocate with and for them for policy change that more fairly represents them. We counsel them after manmade and natural disasters, and help them recover with material aid. We do all of this exclusively with partners from the communities we serve. Our partners help us remain incredibly efficient and effective. Our partners let us help people help themselves…for a day when they won’t need us at all.
LYCS
IrelandCommunity/Family
LYCS (also known as the School on Stilts, the Lourdes Project or the Craft Centre) is a commmunity development project based just off Sean Mac Dermott Street in Dublin's North East Inner City. We provide education and training to young people between the ages of 16 and 21 who have left school without adequate qualifications. We provide a safe and caring environment where young people can come to learn and develop while having fun. Our adult education programme offers basic education to men and women from aged 18 and onwards.
Lymphoma Research Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) is the nation's largest non-profit organization devoted exclusively to funding innovative lymphoma research and providing people with lymphoma and healthcare professionals with up-to-date information about this type of cancer. LRF’s mission is to eradicate lymphoma and serve those touched by this disease. Our goal is to change the future for everyone whose life has been affected by a lymphoma diagnosis. We are dedicated to funding biomedical research focused on the origins, treatment and identification of a cure for lymphoma; to raising public awareness of the disease; and providing support and services to people with lymphoma, their families and caregivers.
Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
Lynn Sage's Grants Initiative supports critical research projects that affect potentially every patient with breast cancer through clinical innovations and research studies. Funded projects make a difference in understanding better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat breast cancer. Every grant provides seed funding for breast cancer researchers at Northwestern to test theories and develop innovative solutions - all with the hope of creating a cure for breast cancer, improving care and enhancing the overall experience. Projects that show promising results then seek funding from competitive extramural funding sources such as the National Institutes of Health. We are dedicated to bringing more humane care to women by changing the course of breast cancer through state-of-the art technology and outstanding research programs. Nationally, LSCRF is at the forefront of the battle against breast cancer and is recognized in Chicago and across the country as a leading philanthropic organization.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
United StatesArts/Culture
Lyric Opera of Chicago, founded in 1954, is one of the world's greatest opera companies. It is renowned internationally for its artistic excellence and financial strength. Over the past two decades the company has achieved unparalleled success in its ticket sales, averaging 100% attendance from 1988-2002. Lyric Opera is also distinguished for having operated in the black for 20 of the past 21 years.
Lysosomal Diseases New Zealand
New ZealandResearch/Dev
Lysosomal Storage diseases are inherited genetic defects which result in an enzyme deficiency. Our approach is based on the view that good networks among families lead to improved information and better support, and that organised lobbying by families will hasten the research effort and improve the clinical care. These networks are extended to include clinicians and researchers who support our objectives. It is our view that rare diseases do not get a fair share of resources for research, or in health care planning, so advocacy is required to address the imbalance.
M E M O
United KingdomArts/Culture
MEMO is an educational charity dedicated to building an ongoing memorial to extinct species. The memorial will be a stone monument bearing the images of all the species of plants and animals known to have gone extinct in modern times. It will incorporate a bell to be tolled for all extinct species, including the great many ‘unknown’ species which it is believed perish each year unseen by scientists. The bell will be tolled on the International Day of Biodiversity on 22nd May each year. On the outside of the monument there will be marvellous patterns of simple units based on the forms of microorganisms to be carved by thousands of secondary school children.
MaAfrika Tikkun
United KingdomChildren/Education
MaAfrika Tikkun is a non-governmental non-profit organisation that works toward the transformation of South African communities by caring for vulnerable children and orphans in townships. MaAfrika Tikkun registered as a Black Economic Empowerment company in 2006 and we have a multiracial and multicultural team. We foster empowerment by providing holistic services focused on caring for children ranging from one year to 19 years of age, as well as their guardians.
MaAfrika Tikkun
South AfricaCommunity/Family
MaAfrika Tikkun is a non-governmental non-profit organisation that works toward the transformation of South African communities by caring for vulnerable children and orphans in townships. MaAfrika Tikkun registered as a Black Economic Empowerment company in 2006 and we have a multiracial and multicultural team. We foster empowerment by providing holistic services focused on caring for children ranging from one year to 19 years of age, as well as their guardians.
MAARDEC
NigeriaDisability
Mobility Aid and Appliances Research and Development Centre (MAARDEC) is a registered non-profit organization established in April 1991 Mr. Cosmas I. B. Okoli, a Nigerian with disability. Since inception, the centre has transformed millions of lives of people with disabilities and has successfully developed and produced various types of mobility aids and appliances such as the award winning Cosokoli-Hand-Control-Mobilizer (for people with lower limb paralysis to drive with hands only), wheelchairs, crutches, leg braces, walking frames, equipment for the blind and other hospital equipment such as trolleys, couches etc.
Maasai Education Discovery (MED)
KenyaResearch/Dev
Maasai Education Discovery (MED) is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization located in Boston, Massachusetts, London, England and Narok, Kenya. MED was founded in 1999 by Ledama Olekina, a Maasai from Kenya to promote education for the Maasai people. From the start, MED was designed to use technology to promote bicultural education between the Maasai and people of Western nations. Since it was established, MED has increased Maasai access to education, empowered Maasai women and girls as well created economic development opportunities. MED’s activities encompass human rights, education, health, and community development.
Macarthur Foundation Nigeria
NigeriaHuman Rights
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. MacArthur is one of the nation’s largest independent foundations. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.
Macdonald Training Center
United StatesDisability
Independence is something that is important to us all, our GateWay Services are designed to assist our clients in preparing to achieve greater independence. We have over 20 years of experience in providing Supported Living Services and Employment Services. Our Community Services teams of experienced supported living coaches, supported employment coaches, and in-home support companions are ready, willing and able to assist our clients in realizing their dreams. At MacDonald Training Center have committed ourselves to being one of the premier providers of employment services in the nation.
MacKillop Family Services
AustraliaCommunity/Family
MacKillop Family Services is one of the largest providers of specialist support services to vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people and their families in South-Eastern Australia. Services are clustered in thirteen Programs which are in turn grouped into four Divisions across Melbourne, Geelong, Western Sydney and Wollongong. While MacKillop staff focus on the day to day needs of those in our care, we also recognise the range of issues that have brought people to our service. Poverty, family breakdown, mental illness and substance abuse are just some of the complex factors that can lead to families and children needing our support. With vulnerable children especially voiceless, we think it is critical that as their carers’, and experts in the field, we speak out on issues affecting them and use the evidence and experience that we have gained to make a positive difference to other children and families.
Macmillan Cancer Support
United KingdomHealth/Medical
We are a source of support, helping with all the things that people affected by cancer want and need. It's not only patients who live with cancer, so we also help carers, families and communities, guiding people through the system, supporting them every step of the way. We fund nurses and other specialist health care professionals and build cancer care centres. But we give so much more than medical help, we are a force for change, listening to people affected by cancer and working together to improve cancer care.
Maddie's Fund
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Maddie's Fund, the Pet Rescue Foundation, is a family foundation established in 1994 to help fund the creation of a no-kill nation. Since its inception, Maddie's Fund has awarded animal welfare organizations and universities $71.6 million to save dog and cat lives. Maddie's Fund aims to create a no-kill nation where all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats are guaranteed a loving home. To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving, veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum and train veterinarians to save the lives of sick and injured dogs and cats in animal shelters the implementation of national strategies to collect and report shelter statistics.