Metropolitan Opera
United StatesArts/Culture
The Metropolitan Opera is the most widely heard and known opera company in the world. The Met is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented artists, including singers, conductors, composers, orchestra musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
Mfesane
South AfricaCommunity/Family
Like many successful organisations through the ages Mfesane started with absolutely nothing apart from a vision. The first initiatives were taken in the homelands of the Transkei and Ciskei with its huge concentration of human need at the height of apartheid. As the political situation started to change Mfesane realised that the urban areas will become very important with an influx of people from the rural areas to the cities. The overall message of Mfesane remains what its motto says: Christianity in Action.
MGSS - Mahatma Gandhiji Seva Sangam
IndiaCommunity/Family
Our seva sangam organized more than 250 self help groups for women and gents recommended for the financial help through nationalized bank like Indian bank, pandian gramma bank, vasudevanallur. Also from State Bank of India, Indian overseas bank of puliyangudi and sivagiri branch. They received better financial help and linkage from various banks through our seva sangam recommendation and provide near about more than 20 crores, us their repayable financial credit. Now a day our SHG are repaying the credit installment and over and above they received the new loans of more amount too very successfully. In order to administrating these various SHG’s from our seva sangam. We appointed needful field workers to look after the day to activities of the different SHG groups. Our filed workers used to submit their report daily to the MGSS coordinator.
Miami City Ballet
United StatesArts/Culture
Miami City Ballet (MCB) is among the largest ballet companies in the United States, with 40+ dancers and a fiscal year 2010-2011 budget of approximately $15 million. The Company has four home counties in South Florida: Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach, plus Collier (on Florida's west coast), where MCB is presented as the resident ballet company at the Naples Philharmonic Center. Our City Ballet School, which opened in Miami Beach in January 1993, trains students for a professional career in ballet. The School has an enrollment of more than 350 students, and no child of talent is turned away for lack of funds. In June 1997, Miami City Ballet accepted the first School graduate for a professional position with the Company. The School launched the Miami City Ballet School Summer Intensive Program in July 2001. The Summer Program draws approximately 200 students from around the world. The Company's Education program is experienced by thousands of young people annually, who are treated to lecture demonstrations narrated by Edward Villella or a member of the Artistic Staff. Pre-performance talks by Villella or one of the Artistic Staff are free to the ticketed audience prior to each main stage repertory performance.
Miami Jewish Home & Hospital
United StatesHealth/Medical
From fully independent living to 24-hour nursing care and an array of services in between, Miami Jewish Home and Hospital offers the most comprehensive continuum of care for senior citizens in the Southeast. Established in 1945 as a not-for-profit 23-bed residence for widows, MJH&H is now home to more than 700 seniors and a vital provider of inpatient and outpatient care and services for approximately 8,000 community residents annually.
Miami Lighthouse
United StatesDisability
Established in 1931, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is the oldest and largest private agency in Florida to serve people of all ages who are blind or the visually impaired. The Miami Lighthouse Orientation & Mobility program prepares visually impaired clients who wish to use a guide dog. Successful completion of training is a prerequisite for attending guide dog school.
Micah Challenge New Zealand
New ZealandResearch/Dev
The Micah Network and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) created the Micah Challenge campaign to grasp a moment of unique potential. The Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign that will raise a prophetic and powerful voice for and with the poor. It challenges all Christians to deepen our engagement with the poor as an integral part of our faith commitment. And challenges political leaders to fulfil their public promise to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015.
Micaia
United KingdomResearch/Dev
MICAIA UK works closely with MICAIA Foundation in pursuing the priorities laid out in the MICAIA Manifesto. We believe that economic policies that promote global free trade and mass consumerism benefit only the elites, are deeply damaging to the planet, and destructive of communities, cultures and traditions. We also believe that there is an alternative ; local economic, social and cultural relations that are in harmony with the natural environment and blend modern science and technology with traditional knowledge.
Michael Bolton Charities
United StatesCommunity/Family
The major focus of The Michael Bolton Charities is in the area of violence against women. It has continued to devote its time to draw attention to the domestic violence epidemic and to enlist other people to raise their voices for zero tolerance on the issue. The foundation will do whatever possible to secure continued and additional funding to keep the shelters open, our educational programs functioning and our children and women safe. Future projects in the planning stages include the creation of a Domestic Violence Legal Advocacy Fellowship, which will train law students to provide legal assistance to domestic violence survivors, and the formation of a statewide task force to work on creating a Family Justice Center in Connecticut, based on the model in Brooklyn, New York. A Family Justice Center is a one-stop shopping center of support services for domestic violence victims and their families offering counseling, legal aid assistance, shelter, law enforcement assistance, interfaith counseling and a host of other services, by service providers on site.
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease within the decade through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today. For The Michael J. Fox Foundation, there is one clear measure of success: delivering patients better treatments and, ultimately, a cure for Parkinson's disease. We've developed a targeted approach to research funding that helps us identify and prioritize the patient-relevant science that will allow us to reach our goal. Since we began in 2000, the Foundation has funded over $120 million in Parkinson's research, either directly or through partnerships.
Michael Roberts Charitable Trust
United KingdomDisability
Since our formation as a charity in 1997 we have sought to involve people with a disability in all aspects of our work, promoting the value and significance of each person as an individual, encouraging them to take an active role in decision-making and future planning. We promote community integration for people with a learning and / or physical disability and provide opportunities for them to help meet social need in Harlow and London. Our key aim is the inclusion of all people, irrespective of social status, ability, disability, ethnic grouping or religious belief in society.
Michigan Anti-cruelty Society
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Since 1935, the Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society (MACS) has dedicated its efforts to providing refuge to stray, injured, and forgotten animals. We work to promote humane education and actively initiate affirmative legislative action. Each year, MACS investigates between 1,200 and 1,500 animal cruelty complaints and provides extensive sheltering organizations and pet adoption to the 13,000 animals who pass through the shelter doors. We never turn away an animal in need. For many animals, MACS is their only hope. MACS is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charity supported entirely by donations.
Michigan Opera Theatre
United StatesArts/Culture
Established in 1971, Michigan Opera Theatre presents opera, dance and educational activities to make a positive impact on the lives of people in metro-Detroit. This year, Michigan Opera Theater will present five grand opera productions and four stunning dance productions, teach hundreds of classes, visit countless communities and schools, and help thousands of people experience the cultural arts.
MicroLoan Foundation
United KingdomMicrofinance
Welcome to the MicroLoan Foundation. We are a UK based microfinance charity providing small loans, business training and continuing guidance to groups of women in sub-Saharan Africa. The need for appropriate microfinance opportunities here - servicing the extreme rural poor - has been the driving force behind the development of MicroLoan since 2002. MicroLoan is committed to enabling families to become self-sufficient by financing and helping them launch their own businesses. Small loans provide women with the opportunity to buy goods in bulk to re-sell in the local market at a small profit. A modest increase in financial resources from money generated through a small business can improve a family's food security and support their children's education.
Middlebury College
United StatesChildren/Education
Middlebury is one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward, and a realization that the traditional insularity of the United States is something of the past.
MIET
South AfricaChildren/Education
MIET Africa is a not-for-profit organization based in South Africa with a strong presence throughout the SADC Region. It realizes its purpose of improving the lives of children by contributing to quality teaching and learning. MIET Africa prides itself on being an African NGO and an innovator of education solutions that focus on the challenges faced by children in rural areas. It has pioneered many new models and programmes, and its influence now extends beyond South Africa and into Africa.
Mifalot
IsraelChildren/Education
Mifalot is the largest and most diverse sport for development and peace organization in the Middle East. To date, over 20,000 children and youth in Israel, Palestine and Jordan participate in Mifalot's programs each year. Founded in 1997 by the owners of Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club and the Kahanoff Foundation, Mifalot's vision is: to capture the power of football in order to build more active, compassionate, just and cohesive communities, and to support the sustainable development of a more engaged society, and to promote peaceful coexistence in our immediate region and beyond. Our primary business is serving the educational and social needs of children and youth in our region, who graduate our programs with the life skills and tools to learn, grow, excel and develop their community and world.
Migraine Aura Foundation
GermanyHealth/Medical
We are a non-profit organization, and one of our most important goals is to provide material that helps patients to recognize and understand their neurological symptoms during migraine. Classifying and understanding the migraine headache and migraine aura not only helps the patients but might provide one avenue for discovering human brain functioning in cognitive and psychological processes. We do not provide or comment on help in migraine treatment, in particular medication or other forms of migraine pain relief.
Milieudefensie
NetherlandsEnvironment
Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) is a non-governmental (NGO) environmental organisation with more than 90.000 members and supporters and eighty local groups, conducting campaigns on climate change, globalisation, traffic, agriculture and conservation of the countryside. Milieudefensie campaigns against the construction of yet more roads while we plead in favour of cleaner cars and better public transport. Moreover Milieudefensie wants to restrain the busy and extremely polluting air traffic.
Millfield House Foundation
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Millfield House Foundation supports initiatives which tackle poverty, disadvantage and exclusion, and promote social and economic change, in the North East of England, particularly Tyne and Wear. We do this by funding groups which carry out policy-related research or campaigns to inform debate and to promote change on local social issues and public policy. MHF's Trustees seek to use the Foundation's resources to help build a better society, one more equal and less divided. The emphasis is on tackling the causes of poverty and other social ills rather than alleviating the symptoms, and on doing so where possible by empowering the most disadvantaged, in the first instance in the Foundation's own home conurbation and region.