Young grantmakers select 30 grassroots organizations around the world for SNF support

Young people deserve a voice at the table on the issues that affect them, but they should also have a chance to exercise the real decision-making power our collective future relies on them developing. This was the thinking behind the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s (SNF) 30 for 30: Next-Gen Grants initiative, launched as part of the Foundation’s celebrations of 30 years of grantmaking.

SNF offered advice and guidance to the young grantmakers, the members of the SNF Nostos Youth Advisory Committee, but left the horizon wide open in terms of what sort of nonprofit organizations they would support. The young participants, for their part, brought fresh eyes, ideas, and energy to SNF’s grantmaking process. The result melded experience with new thinking.

The SNF Nostos Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) is a group of young people from four continents, all 25 and under, who also helped shape the creation of SNF Nomalastos 2026, a weeklong celebration of 30 years of SNF grantmaking. The results of the 30 for 30 initiative were announced live at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens as part of day hosted by SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos that also included discussions with athletes Giannis Antetokounmpo and Manolo Karalis, author Karen Hao, and comedian John Cleese.

The 30 nonprofits selected are:

ARCTUROS, Greece: Young ambassadors for coexisting with wildlife
This grant supports the Young Ambassadors for Human-Wildlife Coexistence program, a 12-month, field-based youth engagement initiative designed to train young people to promote a sustainable relationship between people and wild animals.

Baltimore Beat, United States: Community-centered reporting in Baltimore
This grant supports Baltimore Beat, an independent, Black-led nonprofit newsroom aiming to cultivate community-centered journalism and strengthen perspectives that are often underrepresented in mainstream media.

Black Yield Institute, United States: Employing youth to combat food insecurity
This grant supports a year-long program employing young people and other residents from South Baltimore to combat food insecurity and providing related education.

Bread for the City, United States: Safety net assistance with dignity
This grant supports the organization’s client-choice food pantry, free shop with professional clothing and household goods, clinic providing physical and mental health care, and legal and social services in Washington, DC.

Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project, Dominican Republic: Health education reducing risks for youth
This grant supports Deportes para la Vida (Sports for Life), a program for young people ages 12-18 in low-income communities across the Dominican Republic that uses sports to deliver sexual health education aimed at reducing reduce the risk of underage pregnancy, HIV and STI transmission, and gender-based violence.

EduSkate, United States: A creative outlet through the arts
This grant supports programming that gives young people ages 7-24 facing social and economic challenges in San Francisco a creative outlet through the arts.

European Organisation for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS), Greece: Psychosocial support for youth with rare diseases
This grant supports the pilot program that aims to help provide young people living with rare diseases mental health support and leaderships skills education to overcome stigma and isolation.

Florence Nightengale Foundation, Ghana: Mentoring the next generation of nurses
This grant supports a pilot program to train 100 experienced nurses and midwives to mentor 200 nurses entering the health care sector in Ghana.

The Freedom Hub, Australia: Healing for trafficking and forced labor survivors
|This grant supports the expansion of the organization’s Survivor School help survivors of forced labor, forced marriage, and human trafficking, particularly the growing population of male survivors, rebuild their lives with programs promoting healing, personal and financial independence, and technology proficiency training.

Hazleton Integration Project (HIP), United States: Afterschool STEAM enrichment
This grant supports the After School Scholars Program, delivering STEAM-focused educational enrichment and safe afterschool care to economically disadvantaged children in greater Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

Her Liberty,  Malawi:  Expanding access to early childhood education
This grant supports the Namikhate Early Childhood Development Center in Mussa Village in Malawi, providing early learning, nutrition, and childcare services for approximately children ages 3–5.

The HOME Project, Greece: Mental health care for unaccompanied minors
This grant supports The Home Project in providing mental health services to unaccompanied refugee children and greater supervisory support for its frontline staff.

Human Trafficking Legal Center, United States: Leadership training for trafficking survivors
This grant supports the second cohort of the Harriet Tubman Fellowship for Labor Trafficking Survivors, which equips survivors to take up management-level leadership roles in the public, private, and third sectors.

iASO Cultural Foundation, Dominican Republic: Transmitting bachata tradition to new generations
This grant supports the Bachata Academy program, which provides bachata and merengue lessons to students in Cabarete to share traditional Latin American and Caribbean music with new generations.

Intersection of Change, United States: Creative expression and workforce development
This grant supports the Jubilee Arts project in delivering a year-round art class and two arts-related workforce development projects to young people in West Baltimore.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom: Expanding access to public health education
This grant supports the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Scholarship Fund, providing one fully funded MSc scholarship for an early-to-mid-career health professional from a low- or middle-income country in the 2026–27 academic year.

Mazi Housing Project, Greece: Stable housing for young men in Athens
This grant supports the organization in providing safe housing and transitional support for young men recently arrived in Athens.

Missionvale Care Centre, South Africa: Community-based care for health—and more
This grant supports the community-based Missionvale Care Centre in delivering integrated health care, education, skill-building, and nutrition services.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore, United States: Housing stability for low-income homeowners
This grant supports the Homeownership Preservation Program, which strengthens housing stability by providing home repairs to low-income homeowners in western Baltimore at risk of displacement.

NOSTOS Organization for Social Integration, Greece: Museum visits for under-resourced schools
This grant supports the 30 Cultural Steps program, which facilitates educational visits to museums and cultural institutions for students from socioeconomically disadvantaged schools in Greece.

Nutrition 4 Education and Development (N4ED), Ethiopia: Combating child malnutrition
This grant supports N4ED’s pilot program to combat Moderate Acute Malnutrition in children under five in Ethiopia by providing nutritional resources, child health screenings, healthy food access, and job training for mothers to secure household stability.

Paul’s Place, United States: Essential services for people facing homelessness
This grant supports the organization’s Basic Services Day programs, which deliver free hot meals, showers, laundry, mail services, and a clothing marketplace to adults and children facing homelessness and food insecurity in Southwest Baltimore.

Safe Space Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone: App and in-person support on gender-based violence|
This grant supports the organization in piloting its Big Madam initiative, which will combine a mobile app with a physical support center in Freetown to enable women to access reliable information, confidential guidance, and referrals to appropriate medical, psychosocial, and legal services to counter gender-based violence.

Signals from the Grassroots, Ghana: Training women to make reusable sanitary products|
This grant supports the Her Period Her Right Project, which aims to train thousands of women in Ghana’s largest informal settlement to make reusable sanitary pads for their personal use.

Student Organ Donation Advocates (SODA), United States: Boosting organ donor registration
This grant supports national outreach and education initiatives to promote organ donor registration across the United States.

Students and Youth Working on Reproductive Health Action Team (SAYWHAT), Zimbabwe: A national youth mental health hotline
This grant supports the SAYWHAT mental health hotline, which provides free, 24/7 mental health support to young people across Zimbabwe.

TaYA, Ethiopia: Increasing reproductive health knowledge
This grant supports the AfriYAN Ethiopia Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) program, which provides training, outreach, and dialogue sessions across Ethiopia to improve access to sexual and reproductive health information and services.

Vijana Amani Pamoja (VAP), Kenya: Education for economic and health empowerment
This grant supports the SKILLZ For Life: Building Healthy and Economically Empowered Futures in Nairobi program, with aims to reach vulnerable young people with HIV prevention education, psychosocial support, and entrepreneurship training.

Wild Tomorrow, South Africa: Employing women to restore ecosystems
This grant supports the Green Mambas program, which employs women to restore degraded ecosystems and delivers community education initiatives to children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Youth Wave Malawi, Malawi: Sports-based youth mental health support
This grant supports Sport4Mind, a sports-based, peer-led mental health program in Lilongwe, Malawi, based on Grassroot Soccer’s MindSKILLZ model.