Creating Measurable

and Lasting Change.

 Our 2023 Impact

In Collaboration with 23 Grassroots Partners in 14 Countries

and measuring Program Outcomes, Student Outcomes, and Societal Outcomes.


See our Monitoring & Evaluation Framework, and Theory of Change for details.


Read our 2023 Impact Report

Students educated*

1,355,016

Schools served

5,891

Teachers trained

2,692

Parents engaged

462,138

Girls enrolled

76%

People served**

460,859

*GuideStar definition: Individuals educated and empowered, in-person and online, through educational materials and tools/resources provided.

**Includes training community members on topics such as literacy, health, importance of girls' education, or preventing violence against women, etc.

Most Significant Change Stories

We use "most significant change stories" as qualitative evidence of the impact of programs on the lives of students, their families, and their communities.


See the video below and our Blog for stories of transformation.

Launched in 2017 and located near the city of Sololá, the MAIA Impact School is Central America’s first female, Indigenous-led secondary school specifically designed to connect the talents of rural Indigenous young women with the opportunities of the 21st century. The school serves about 300 girls from 40 remote villages. (Video courtesy of MAIA Impact School)

Societal Impact

Seven of our grassroots partners have now reached a tipping point where their impact is exponentially multiplied.


They are rising in collaboration with their governments, other nonprofits, and businesses to catalyze system change, mobilizing to rewrite and reshape the narratives, policies, and social norms* which to date have inhibited millions of students, especially girls, from fully participating in the life of society.  Two examples are below. 


* Including access to education, access to technology, gender justice, moral development, access, food sovereignty and environment

BADI SCHOOL, PANAMA

Badi School started in 1993 as a kindergarten in the carport of a trailer home and has since grown into one of the finest K-12 schools in Panama, serving over 400 students. Badi integrates high quality academics, arts, and technology programs with an inclusive moral leadership program and service. Most Badi School graduates receive full scholarships to the best universities in Panama and elsewhere. 


Impressed over the years by the exceptional quality of Badi school's graduates and their contributions to the betterment of their communities, the Ministry of Education in Panama adopted their moral education curriculum, the key lever of Badi's outstanding results, as their standard course on religion, implementing it in 3,400 schools reaching about 950,000 K-12 students. 

STUDY HALL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INDIA

Study Hall Educational Foundation's Aarohini girls' empowerment program is designed to prevent child marriage and domestic violence in a country where girls are unsafe, unwanted, unequal and unfree.   


The program trains girls to see themselves as equal persons deserving of respect, having the right to agency and to voice their protest. The initiative is primarily a teacher training program which equips teachers to enable change in schools and in their communities.


The program has been so successful that in 2022 SHEF signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding with the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Ministiry of Education to train over 2,000 teachers in 746 public residential schools for disadvantaged girls to educate and empower more than 100,000 girls. 



The other Mona partners currently scaling societal impact are Barli Development Institute for Rural Women (India), Educational Initiatives (India), Mongolian Development Center (Mongolia), FUNDAEC, (Colombia), and Program for Children (Sierra Leone). Look for this icon in our Grassroots Partner listing and annual Impact Report.

In the Words of our Partners

I am a huge fan of Mona Foundation. Of course, we are very grateful, but more importantly, I really think that Mona is a very special organization. It is not a condescending charitable organization. They treat their partners with dignity and respect. They are the most selfless, humble, and patient organization that I know. They are not just our funders; they are our partners. There is a relationship of trust. They believe in the cause, and they fight for it alongside us. I have been looking for years to find another organization like Mona and have not found one yet, and so Mona is not only unique, it is really rare.


Dr. Urvashi Sahni, Founder and CEO of Study Hall Educational Foundation Lucknow, India, a Mona partner since 2008

Our Promise to You

We maintain the highest standards of integrity and accountability,  keep you informed of how and where your donation is used, and measure and report the impact of your investment.

HONOR A LOVED ONE

Keep the legacy of someone you love.

Change a life in their name.

EMPOWER A GIRL

Improve life for an entire community.

Educate and train a girl.

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