Mars Foundation
IndiaChildren/Education
Education - A golden key that opens up a whole new world of opportunity, yet millions of the underprivileged are deprived of the same, especially the children. In the journey of their lifetimes, they walk in the narrow path of illiteracy, ignorance and poverty. When it comes to children, we at the MARS FOUNDATION believe in making a difference. A difference that which really matters. We are a registered, voluntary, charitable educational trust committed towards providing access to education for the "Meritorious Underprivileged" children without looking into their caste, creed, race or religion.
Maruva Trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
Maruva Trust is working with HIV positive children to develop support materials for their HIV positive peers around the world. Our Children's blog provides a forum for the kids we are working with, to share their experiences and in doing so, to help others. If HIV positive children are to enjoy happy, fulfilled lives, they need to learn essential skills which will help them to to cope better with their HIV status, to access appropriate care and support services, to remain adherent to their treatment and to pursue their hopes and dreams for their future. Appropriate psychosocial support services can help children to develop these skills and confidence. Maruva Trust's current primary role is to support the work of Africaid in Zimbabwe.
Mary A Tidlund Charitable Foundation
CanadaResearch/Dev
The Mary A. Tidlund Charitable Foundation was registered on October 14, 1998 as a public foundation. The foundation identifies, financially supports, participates in medical and educational programs in Canada and overseas. The foundation also has a mandate to alleviate poverty. The biggest part of the Foundation are the Canadian volunteers and their work at home and around the world.
Mary Potter Hospice
New ZealandHealth/Medical
Mary Potter Hospice belongs to the people of Wellington, Porirua and the Kapiti Coast. It is an integrated programme to support people and their families in their own homes. There is an inpatient unit in Wellington, a day facility in Paraparaumu and a Palliative Care base in Porirua. Our services are free to all patients and their caregivers, thanks to the generosity of the people in the community who make donations and bequests to help meet costs.
Mary's Meals
United KingdomChildren/Education
Mary's Meals is an international movement to set up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Mary's Meals provides daily meals in school for over 400,000 children in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Mary's Meals not only addresses the immediate needs of hungry children by giving them a daily meal, it also allows those children to receive an education that can provide an escape from poverty for themselves and their communities.
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
We are an American, Catholic organization that, for nearly 100 years, has been reaching out to those most in need throughout the world. We live side-by-side with the poor and powerless. We work side-by-side combating poverty, providing healthcare, building communities and advancing peace and social justice as a living mission outreach of the American Church. The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers look to Jesus feeding the hungry, healing the sick and reaching out to outcasts as their model of compassion. It does not matter what culture, what language or what tradition.
Masimanyane Women Support Centre
South AfricaWomen
Masimanyane Women's Support Centre is a non-profit international women's organisation based in East London, South Africa. With a specific focus on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and rights and the gendered nature of HIV and Aids, we aim to build the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women's human rights. This is done through the development of new knowledge and the utilisation of a rights-based approach.
Masonic Homes of California
United StatesCommunity/Family
In 1850, two years after gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in Northern California, a terrible cholera epidemic struck Sacramento. At the time, individual Masons gave money and personal aid to relieve the suffering of those who became ill. In the devastating aftermath of the epidemic, they came to realize that the Masons of California needed a facility to care for widows and orphans. Much has changed in the years since the Homes opened, but not the basic principals on which they were founded. Throughout the years, the Trustees of the Homes have never wavered from their mission to provide relief to members of the fraternal family who are in need.
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Masonic Medical Research Laboratory (MMRL) is a not-for-profit institute supported by volunteer contributions and bequests. The Laboratory also obtains funding through foundation, corporation and Federal grants. The MMRL is a state-of-the-art medical research facility engaged in studies involving major health issues facing society today such as, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and other aspects of cardiovascular disease.
Masonic Village at Elizabethtown
United StatesHealth/Medical
The Masonic Village at Lafayette Hill originated as The Masonic Home of Pennsylvania, founded in 1871. Previously located in Philadelphia, this haven for poor and sick Pennsylvania Freemasons relocated to Montgomery County in 1976 and currently offers continuing care retirement services for more than 250 residents. Meanwhile, in the center part of the state, The Masonic Village at Elizabethtown was founded as the Masonic Homes of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in 1910, offering services to aging Freemasons and their spouses. The 1,400-acre campus with 1,700 residents has grown into a continuing care retirement community, including a health care center, children's home and residences for more than 1,700 residents.
Massaba Rural Development Organization
KenyaResearch/Dev
Massaba Rural Development Organization is a Kenyan local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) whose mandate is alleviating poverty through initiatives in health, food security, environment and small business development. Massaba was registered in Kenya in 2004 under the NGO Act of 1990 with its head office in Nairobi and Field Office in Kisii and Nyamira districts.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United StatesChildren/Education
Admitting its first students in 1865, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) works to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. The Institute has 1,008 faculty members, and 10,220 undergraduate and graduate students.
Mater Dei
AustraliaDisability
Based in the Macarthur and established as a special school in 1957, Mater Dei is an organization that provides early intervention therapy services, education and residential programs for babies, children and young people with an intellectual disability or developmental delay. The underpinning philosophy for all that we do at Mater Dei is "Inclusion for all". Much of our work is focused on providing opportunities and experiences that will help our students develop the skills and confidence to access their local communities as valued and contributing members in a manner that builds acceptance and dignity for people with disabilities. We pride ourselves on providing an individualised and holistic education for all children and young people in our care and support to their families.
Mater Foundation
AustraliaHealth/Medical
For more than 100 years the Mater has been committed to providing compassionate health care to all Queenslanders with an emphasis on the values of dignity, mercy, care, commitment and quality. The Mater Foundation is the philanthropic and community arm of Mater Health Services and the Mater Medical Research Institute. Donations to the Foundation help purchase life-saving medical equipment, improve patient care and ensure our world-renowned research team continues to find better ways to diagnose, treat and ultimately cure life-threatening diseases. The Mater Hospitals were established by the Sisters of Mercy in Brisbane in 1906 and now care for more than half a million babies, children and adults each year. Mater Foundation has touched the lives of generations of Queenslanders - by supporting clinical programs, education and training, research, equipment and mission activities at Mater Hospitals and the Mater Medical Research Institute.
Maternity Worldwide
DenmarkHumanitarian Aid
Maternity Worldwide (MWW) is a charitable organization founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2005 by 6 women on voluntary basis. Working closely together with its sister organization, Maternity Worldwide UK, MWW provides life-saving health care, education and economic aid to women and children in Ethiopia in connection with pregnancy and labour. MWW runs an ongoing, village-based program that has at its centre a hospital in the village of Gimbie. In 2010 Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, became official protector for Maternity Worldwide.
Matt's Canaan Trust
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Matt’s Canaan Trust was founded to honour the memory of Matthew Leitch, who died from a rare, malignant brain tumour weeks before his 14th birthday in 2002. Matt’s Canaan Trust seek to provide holidays uniquely suited to each individual family’s needs, whether that be abroad or nearer to home. Based in West Sussex, they help families from all over the UK, and the criterion for consideration is not limited to children as the patients. They consider each referral on its own merit, irrespective of whether the patient is a child or adult.
Matthew 25: Ministries
United StatesHuman Rights
Matthew 25: Ministries (M25M) is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization established in 1990 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Partnering with corporations, hospitals, and non-profit organizations, M25M is committed to helping ALL people in need, regardless of race, creed or political persuasion. Matthew 25: Ministries began as the result of a trip Founder and President Pastor Wendell Mettey made with a group of doctors and nurses to Nicaragua in 1990. Pastor Mettey’s years as an inner city social worker and pastor had done little to prepare him for what he experienced in Nicaragua during his visit. A bloody twenty-year civil war, a U.S. economic embargo, and a number of natural disasters had left the country in complete ruin. The poverty and devastation were endless.
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.