Mona Foundation

Specialties

Mona Foundation is a nonprofit that is dedicated to supporting grassroots educational initiatives and raising the status of women and children across the world.

We believe in the innate capacity and the inherent right of each individual, regardless of economic status, to be the protagonist of their own development.

We therefore develop deep and long-​term partnerships with the projects we support to learn how best to empower communities to implement their own development activities.

We give 100% of all designated funds and 97% of contributions to the General Fund directly to the projects we support. (We are able to do this because our administrative costs are covered by a private fund provided us outside of the contributions we receive.)

History

Established in 1999.

Mona Foundation was founded by a small group of friends attending a social and economic development conference that saw a great need in the world for every child to have the right to a quality education.

Meet the Manager

Mahnaz A. J.

Manager

Mahnaz has a doctorate in educational leadership with a focus on educational technologies and human-​software interface. She is a recognized expert in integration of technology across disciplines to enhance learning, and has authored several articles in scholarly publications.

She has held several positions including the Director of Readiness at Enterprise and Partners group, managing the planning and prioritization of training for 25,000 enterprise technical sales force. Currently Mahnaz is with Avanade, www​.avanade​.com, a high tech consultancy as the Vice President of Global Learning and Development.

Mahnaz is committed to, and has been involved in community service and social and economic development projects in the US, South and Central America and Africa for the past 15 years. She is one of the founders of Mona Foundation. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, and is a frequent presenter at conferences focused on educational leadership.