Mona Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports grassroots initiatives focused on education and raising the status of women and girls in the US and abroad. They believe that universal education and gender equity are the cornerstones of the eradication of poverty, disease, and conflict. Mona Foundation is named after Mona Mahmudnizhad, an Iranian high school student who was executed in 1983 for her religious beliefs, in the Baháʼí Faith, and teaching of children classes. Founded in 1999, Mona Foundation supports grassroots initiatives that provide education to all children, increase opportunities for women and girls, and emphasize serve e to the community. The Mona Foundation believes the key to eliminating poverty and achieving positive and sustained community transformation lies in universal education and gender equality. Mona Foundation searches the world to identify partners who share these two priorities. Operations Many foundations are seed funders, supporting projects that have a beginning and an end. Instead, Mona Foundation develops long-term relationships with locally operated organizations and provides multi-year funding (six years on average). Projects New Horizon, Haiti Recognized as one of the best in Haiti, New Horizon School educates the next generation of graduates as agents of change in the sustainable development of Haiti. A focus on academic excellence and personal transformation is achieved with commitment to community service and focus on moral capabilities. Of the 407 New Horizon's students, 52 percent are girls. ADCAM, Brazil The Association for Cohesive Development of the Amazon (ADCAM) started in 1985 as a small orphanage with 30 kids. Today, it is a nationally recognized institution which offers K-12, a technical college, vocational training, a family development center and rural education programs serving over 1,000 students, and 4,400 youth, families and elderly a day. Programs include: A K-12 school serving more than 1000 students The Family Development Institute serving at risk students from the ages of 7-17 The Vocational School offering 16 vocational training tracks The SAT tutorial curriculum used at 16 river schools alongside Amazon River An after-school program for street children serving 400 students A program for the disadvantaged & vulnerable elderly A Youth Apprenticeship program to prepare youth ages 15–24 for employment A program to assist juvenile offenders Anis Zunúzí School, Haiti The Anis Zunúzí Baháʼí School, located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, offers K-12 education to 421 students (as of 2019), of whom 60 percent are girls. Excellent academics, music and arts and a