HIGHLIGHTS

• SNF Commemorates 25 Years of Grantmaking
  This year marks a quarter-century since the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) began making grants to nonprofit organizations around the world, guided by an openness to the excellent ideas of people close to the issues, by collaboration with valued partners, and by a desire to create transformative change whose benefits multiply and are shared widely across society.
• Guide Dogs Unlock Greater Autonomy for People with Visual Impairments
  It’s “the most difficult job a dog can do,” but the Lara Guide Dog School for the Blind provides the intensive and time-consuming preparation dogs need for this crucial role. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is proud to help our partner open new worlds for people with visual impairments.
• Sharing knowledge to support kids from Alabama to Montana
  Steadfast support from an adult mentor can be a transformative force in a young person’s life, but how do you maintain that support in the face of a pandemic that requires people to stay apart?
• Grants Provide a Springboard to Recovery for Small Businesses from Hawaii to Texas
  “This grant and the team’s support are enabling our business to continue and expand a sustainable distribution system for the Community Supported Agriculture program that we launched during COVID when farms across our community experienced a severe drop in revenues,” said Kea Keolanui of O.K. Farms in Hilo, Hawaii.
• The Day of the African Child and a Focus on Access to Education
  The Day of the African Child, is marked today, June 16, to turn the world’s attention to the experiences of children in Africa, with a particular focus on educational gaps that remain to be filled.
• Street Work in Athens Helps Meet the Needs of Unaccompanied Refugee Children
  “I was scared. If you hadn’t found me, I wouldn’t know where to go,” said one of the refugee children supported by the nonprofit organization Faros.
• 25 Years of Helping Open Up Access to Extraordinary Artistic Creation and Cultural Heritage
  Art is essential—it helps us reflect on what it means to be human and connect with one another across difference.
• Canals? Drones? Mars getaways? Imagine the Future of Cities with an Immersive Model from Chatham House’s SNF CoLab
  A public fountain that doubles as a drinking fountain. Urban waterways to cope with rising seas. A Mars Expo advertising a five-year emigration scheme for the Red Planet.
• Fostering Engaged Citizenship as a Dynamo of Healthy Democracy
  Robust civil discourse and civic engagement are key pillars of democracy worldwide. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) aims to help create platforms for open discussion on critical issues and to educate active and informed citizens.