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Founded | 1996 |
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Founder | Stavros Niarchos[1] |
Type | Charitable |
Focus | Arts and culture, education, health and medicine, and social welfare |
Location | |
Area served | Global |
Method | Grants, funding |
Website | snf.org |
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation was established in 1996 to honor Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos (1909-1996). Niarchos was one of the world's largest transporters of oil [2] and owned the largest supertanker fleet of his time.
Organization
The foundation's board of directors includes:
- Philip Niarchos, co-president (son of Stavros Niarchos)
- Spyros Niarchos, co-president (son of Stavros Niarchos)
- Andreas Dracopoulos, co-president, (great-nephew of Stavros Niarchos)[3]
- George Agouridis
- Heini Murer
The foundation has staff in Athens, Greece; Monte Carlo, Monaco; and New York City, New York, United States.
Since 1996, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has provided more than 4,700 grants totaling more than $3 billion to non-profit agencies.[4]
SNF announced a $100 million global initiative to help alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020.[5]
In 2012, in response to the socio-economic crisis in Greece, SNF announced a grant initiative of additional $130 million (€100 million) over three years to help ease the adverse effects of the deepening crisis. A new initiative, Recharging the Youth, was announced in 2013 to help create new opportunities for Greece's younger generations and committed an additional $130 million (€100 million).[6] Upon the completion of the first phase of the program against the Greek Crisis, a second phase was introduced in June 2015, announcing the allocation of another $112 million (€100 million), intensifying the efforts against the ongoing crisis in Greece and providing immediate support to the most vulnerable groups of society.[7]
SNF's grants include:[8]
- Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece
- Children's Soccer Training
- Consorzio Farsi Prossimo
- Cultural Heritage without Borders
- MIT Enterprise Forum via the Greek Technology Enterprise Forum, Athens, Greece
- Cutty Sark Trust, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
- ECOWEEK
- Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, Kastoria, Greece
- Fulbright Program in Greece
- Global Fund for Women, San Francisco, California, United States
- Hellenic Fire Service, Greece[9]
- Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, New York, United States
- Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN)
- Megali Sholi
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, New York, United States
- Marie Curie (charity), London, United Kingdom
- National Center for Emergency Care (EKAV), Greece
- Natural History Museum of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Pro-Natura International, Paris, France
- Queens Public Library, New York City, New York, United States
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- SNF Agora Institute Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Faliro bay, Athens, Greece
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, New York Public Library, New York City, New York, United States[10]
- Wikimedia Foundation[11]
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
References
- ^ "FOUNDER".
- ^ "Greek Shipping Hall of Fame".
- ^ "Andreas Dracopoulos".
- ^ "HISTORY & MISSION".
- ^ Candid. "Stavros Niarchos Foundation Commits $100 Million to COVID-19 Response". Philanthropy News Digest (PND). Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "RECHARGING THE YOUTH - Stavros Niarchos Foundation". www.snf.org. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
- ^ "Initiative Against the Greek Crisis (1st Program: 2012-2015, 2nd Program: 2015-2016) - Stavros Niarchos Foundation". www.snf.org. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
- ^ "Stavros Niarchos Foundation".
- ^ www.snf.org https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2018/07/emergency-grant-totaling-%E2%82%AC25-million-to-support-the-hellenic-fire-department/. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
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