Mona Foundation supports grassroots educational initiatives that provide education to all children, increase opportunities for women and girls, and emphasize service to the community.  Our goal is to alleviate global poverty and support community-led transformation such that no child ever goes to bed hungry, or is lost to preventable diseases, or is deprived of gift of education for lack of resources.  We believe that the keys to alleviating poverty are universal education, gender equality, and community building. In 2019, Mona supported 19 partner organizations who educated and empowered more than 429,000 students in 19 12 countries.

Mona was founded in 1999 by a small group of people who drew their inspiration from the Baha’i principles of justice and equality, universal education and indiscriminate service to all. We seek to work with like-minded people or organizations, locally, nationally and internationally, to demonstrate in action that people of all backgrounds can come together in the service of our common good. 

We believe that the key to alleviating poverty and achieving positive community transformation lies in universal education and gender equality. Mona Gift Shop integrates the following values in all aspects of its operation:

• Oneness and unity
  • In our humanity we are one, each endowed with the potential to contribute to building a better world.
• Service to all
  • Regardless of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality or economic status
  • Supporting social and economic development projects focused on education and improving the status of women and girls
• Fostering unity in diversity
  • Preserving the diverse cultural heritage of the people we serve
  • Building collaborative relationships & supporting others to develop themselves
• Integrity, accountability and transparency 
  • Embodying trustworthiness and committed to operational excellence and meeting our commitments
  • Operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed and results achieved
• Consultation as a medium of decision-making
  • Seeking and respecting the diversity of views 
  • Searching for truth and arriving at, and rallying around the group decision
• Continuous learning
• Engaging in continuous cycle of consultation, action and reflection to lean from experience and improve year-on-year

In the past two years, we have worked with with each of our partners in the field and an advisory committee to identify field-generated measures of sustained positive community change. Our Evaluation and Impact Framework, therefore, tracks, assesses and reports the voice of the field on three outcomes

1. Program Outcome:  Improving Access to Education as indicated by the number of schools enrolled
2. Student Outcome:  Improving Teaching and learning as indicated by the number of students who transition to next level of graduation or into work, and
3. Social & Economic Outcome:  Positive community change as indicated in improvement in students character development and life skills and service back to the community.

Why is it crucial to ensure that nearly 4 billion girls and women around the world have the same chances to receive an education as boys and men? First, education is a human right, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Second, girls’ education is a strategic development investment – evidence shows that girls’ education brings a wide range of benefits not only for the girls themselves but also for their children and their communities, as well as society at large in terms of economic growth.

Mona Foundation is officially certified every year by the State of Washington. We embrace nonprofit accountability and transparency.  We are have received Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance stamp of approval, and enjoy the Platinum status granted by GuideStar (www.guidestar.org) given only to organizations which meet their extensive accountability and transparency requirements.  In addition, we have received several awards and recognitions including:

1. Microsoft Alumni Integral Fellow
2. Leadership Council member, Brookings Institution Center for Universal Education (CUE)
3. Brokkings Institution CUE select global partner member to Girls CHARGE inititave 
4. CNN Top 10 Nonprofits Supporting the Education of Women
5. Best of Western WA Nonprofits
6. Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation

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