Creating measurable and lasting change.

Our impact is about more than sending funds to support education. It is also about developing capable and ethical leaders who contribute to the betterment of their families, communities, and ultimately their nations.

How We Measure Impact

Our field-relevant indicators measure progress in three areas:

Program Outcomes, Student Outcomes, and Social Outcomes

This framework was developed in collaboration with our grassroots partners and an advisory committee, and is based on their lived experience and input. Our indicators consider both quantitative and qualitative outcomes and align with the 2018 World Bank report "Learning to Realize Education’s Promise". See our Monitoring & Evaluation Framework and Theory of Change for details.

2023 Program and Student Outcomes

Quantitative results across all grassroots partners

1,662,548 students directly educated and empowered. 26 grassroots partners. 15 countries served. 10,672 schools served. 90.4% of girls enrolled. 8,627 teachers trained. 72,076 parents trained. 809 service projects. 460,611 additional people directly served through our outreach.

2023 Qualitative results - sample most significant change stories

We use "most significant change stories" and case studies as qualitative evidence of the impact of programs on the lives of students, their families, and their communities. See L ocal Partners and our Blog for additional stories.

Societal Outcomes - 1999 - 2023

Overtime, seven* of our twenty-three partner organizations have 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.

* Badi School (Panama), Barli Institute and Study Hall Educational Initiatives (India), MDC (Mongolia), Educational Initiatives (India and South Africa), FUNDAEC, (Colombia), Program for Children (Sierra Leone).

** 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

The 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.