Staying Focused, and Flexible, Through Two Decades of Growth
At Greater Good Charities, we’re honored to celebrate 20 years of impact—and the people, communities, and networks that have made the last two decades life-changing for so many.
But we’re not just looking back on decades of local connections, worldwide support, and meaningful change. We’re also looking forward to 20 more years of stronger partnerships, continued community growth, and a steady, ever-expanding impact.
Your sustained support enables our work to focus on current impact—while also celebrating past successes and reaffirming future efforts. We’re here to show you that, as Greater Good Charities continues to grow, our mission, our durability, and our impact remain the same.
In a world so often shaped by disruption, skepticism, and fatigue, your support has enabled 20 years of good: good that is still happening, still adding up, and still creating outcomes that last.
At Greater Good Charities, you’re supporting more than a theory of global impact—you’re building on a decades-long legacy of change, growth, and empowerment.
On Thailand’s border with Myanmar, your generosity has been changing lives for ten years—and the impact is only growing. When 30-year-old Khet Khet Oo learned she was pregnant with twins, she immediately turned to the Mae Tao Clinic: “This clinic is the only place we can go.”
When her second baby was born underweight and required intensive care, Mae Tao Clinic was the family’s sole provider of ongoing postnatal support. Today, both twins are healthy. The Mae Tao Clinic has been serving communities since 1988—providing access to free, life-saving healthcare, education, and training to thousands. As Greater Good Charities celebrates ten years of partnership and impact with Mae Tao Clinic, we remain focused on the incredible work there that continues—and will continue—to this day.
Mae Tao Clinic’s work has indeed changed countless lives, and our partnership remains inspired by the fact that this work is still changing lives.
When Greater Good Charities partnered with the Klintworth Family Foundation in 2014, we had a clear goal: to protect Afghan girls on their commute to school. Donor support raised $43,000 for the Mirwais Mena Bus Project, purchasing and delivering two new buses for The Safe Ride to School for Afghan Girls Program.
Access to education—particularly for girls and young women—is critical for millions in Afghanistan. In 2003, girls accounted for just 6% of Afghan students. Through the Safe Ride Program—and countless organizations and programs like it—Afghanistan's legacy of education, and its system, has truly been revolutionized. 1.2 million Afghan student enrollments in 2001 rose to 8.2 million by 2013, including 3.2 million girls. By 2017, 39% of girls in Afghanistan were attending school—over six times the 2003 enrollment rate. In the two decades that followed 2001, Afghanistan’s literacy rate has risen from 8% to 43%.
As policy and authority changes in Afghanistan, what remains is the fact that a generation of Afghan girls and young women now understand more than the importance of education—they’ve experienced it. Your support has ensured hundreds of thousands of rides to school, countless students provided with an otherwise impossible education, and multiple grade-7-through-12 classes graduated.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Greater Good Charities responded with an unprecedented effort in Hawaii: Paws Across the Pacific.
Operation disruption struck Hawaiian animal shelters uniquely, with commercial flights suspended and the flow of pet transports to the mainland almost ceased. As shelters quickly became overwhelmed, we led a single-day operation relocating nearly 600 dogs and cats from six Hawaiian islands to shelters across the Pacific Northwest. While this was the largest pet rescue flight in history, we saw it as an opportunity to build something truly lasting.
In April of 2021, Greater Good Charities launched our transport program: to conduct life-saving airlifts, support ground transport for at-risk and vulnerable pet populations, and maintain focus on support for disaster relief, shelter less cats, harder-to-place large dogs, and asymptomatic heartworm-positive shelter dogs.
Now, as we celebrate 20 years of amplifying the good, we’re preparing to celebrate over 20,000 pets transported—proving that addressing momentary needs can create lasting and sustained impacts.
Read our 20-year impact guide.
For 20 years, Greater Good Charities has operated through crisis, conflict, and overwhelm. Your support has brought undeterred people and brands together—around the world—through high-impact programs, while scaling the systems that make good possible.
Together, we’ve done more than amplify the good in unprecedentedly hard times—we've grown more capable and connected with each effort.
As Greater Good Charities celebrates 20 years of impact, this anniversary isn’t about simply looking back. It’s about not letting up. Because good has been happening for two decades—and it still is.