MAG assists non-profit organizations dedicated to building a just, caring, and peaceful world. MAG's highest priority is to strengthen organizations working to enhance the quality of life and secure economic, social, and political justice for low-income people and racial minorities in the United States.

MAG works with national, state, and community organizations. As a general rule, MAG's services are available only to non-profit groups working to:

• establish political, social, and economic justice
• eliminate the causes and consequences of poverty
• empower disenfranchised minorities and eliminate discrimination and intolerance based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation
• secure civil liberties and human rights
• ensure universal access to quality public education, health care, housing, food, and other essential human services
• protect and preserve the environment
• promote citizen participation in communities and in the nation's political life
• establish responsible, accountable government and strong democratic institutions
• secure peaceful resolution of conflicts and international harmony

In deciding whether to work with an organization, MAG also weighs other factors, such as:

• the degree of organizational crisis or growing pains
• the importance of the organization to the field in which it works
• the organization's willingness to consider institutional changes