$26,863 raised by 142 donors
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$35,000 Goal
When we first met her in 2021, Nashipae had just finished at the top of her 8th grade class. Her grades got her an invitation to a prestigious secondary boarding school, an incredibly rare honor in her corner of Maasailand. But she was an orphan, and had just delivered her baby, Sasha, four days before we met her, and she had to give up her spot. Fortunately, we had just started our first day secondary school in the village of Morijo when Nashipae delivered, which was walking distance to her home – allowing her to return to school because she could come home each day to take care of Sasha. Day schools like Morijo are vital in ensuring girl's have equal access to education due to their affordability and their accessibility: Poverty is significant in the region of Kenya where Nashipae lives, and teenage pregnancy rates are over 40%.
Nashipae is now sitting for her secondary school exit exams and will soon be starting college. Morijo Day Secondary School, the school she returned to after having Sasha, was the highest performing school in the Loita region this year, outperforming more expensive local boarding schools. And Sasha will start preschool in January, continuing the circle of opportunity that began with the generosity of all of you years ago. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for doing so. We hope you'll join us again this year. We CAN make a difference. And we have the power to use our voices and dollars to see that every girl has a chance to develop her voice and talents and contribute to our collective wellbeing, Give girls the opportunity, and they will help change the world.
"We talk about money with our kids. We talk about giving. We talk about For the Good. My daughter understands that what we're doing is beyond just giving money. What we're doing is ensuring that other girls around the world can have opportunities as well."- Isaac Gregory, For the Good major donor since 2015.
"I never stop being impressed by the people behind For the Good and what the group has accomplished through sensitive approaches to the communities they work with." Larkin Lapides, For the Good leadership donor since 2015.
"For the Good's mission of partnering with local communities to effect change in remote areas reflects Together Women Rise's commitment to ensure that girls have the same opportunities to thrive regardless of where they live. We love that For the Good envisions a world where every girl can go to school. Interns are female secondary school graduates from the local communities ... This direct impact approach has the potential for far-reaching effects for years to come." -
Together Women Rise, major funder and partner, 2025-2026
"For the Good's local Kenyan team has developed a way of communicating that speaks to the hearts and rationale of their fellow citizens, emboldening them to decide to support women and girls in their work and education. The opportunity to watch this transformation take place in person left an unforgettable impression, powerfully reinforcing my belief that For the Good is truly making a difference in the lives of many young girls and their communities in which they live." -Shelly Sheppick, For the Good donor and board member
Banner Photo: Nashipae with Sasha in October, 2025. Photo: Josephat Mashati
Below: Nashipae with Sasha in 2022, just before she returned to secondary school. Photo: Kate Lapides-Black
We work with communities to keep girls in school so they are equipped and emboldened to drive their own lives.
When For the Good was founded in 2014, we focused on addressing one immediate barrier to girl's education in rural Kenya: lack of access to sanitary pads. We partnered with schools and communities in Kenya to supply girls with critical reproductive health education and reusable sanitary pads.
While distributing pads and health information to girls, we also listened, a lot. We listened to girls, mothers, fathers, teachers, and community leaders describe the barriers to adolescent girls. It became clear over time that access to sanitary pads was only one, though very real, barrier to girl's educations. Many other more foundational barriers were present in community after community in high need regions of Kenya: Child marriage, early pregnancy, FGC (female genital cutting), poverty, and gendered attitudes that led to parents prioritize their boys when and if they had money to pay for school fees, along with under investment in girl's educations overall. While some of these barriers are less visible and tangible than lack of a sanitary pad, they are equally crippling to girl's opportunities. In response, we re-engineered our approach and programs to focus on these foundational barriers first before introducing our reusable pads and education,
Today, we use a multi-faceted approach to enroll and retain girls in school. We target remote, rural communities in southern Kenya where girl's school enrollment is especially low and then work with those communities to address the biggest barriers to education locally. We partner with them to build affordable day secondary schools where none exist; support these new schools with low-cost, high impact tools to improve learning outcomes; and also rely on a team of young, local Maasai interns to cultivate new ideas about education in parents and then help them enroll their children into school. Finally, because girls are embedded within their communities and assume the roles, dreams and constraints of that community, we work to sensitize community leaders to the value of educating their daughters and strive to help them turn this change of knowledge into action.
Organization name
For the Good
other names
FTG, For the Good, Period
2015
Tax id (EIN)
47-1979734
Category
Education
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
For the Good 1002 Cooper Ave., Suite 100Mailing
For the Good 1002 Cooper Ave., Suite 100Garfield County, CO, US
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