HIGHLIGHTS

• Accessing New York City’s Museums
  There are tough times ahead for museums. But even as cultural institutions feel the squeeze of pandemic-induced closures and restrictions, accessibility efforts must be seen as an essential part of their work, not an optional add-on.
• Mobile Medical Units: Free State-of-the-Αrt Care for the Rest of Greece
  Since 2014, nonprofit Regeneration and Progress (R&P) has designed and implemented a series of free services in the areas of health, sports, and education through an exclusive grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
• Small Interventions Make a Big Difference for Kids with Limited Vision
  For children with limited or no vision, relatively small interventions can lead to significant improvements in overall quality of life.
• THE CITY: Restoring Local Accountability Reporting for New Yorkers
  Local news organizations across the United States are in crisis. Since 2004, a quarter of all metro and community newspapers in the country have closed or merged, leaving many regions without any access to local news reporting (1). This trend of consolidation in news media has meant that the stories of most importance to local communities are often going untold while partisanship (2), polarization (3), and misinformation fill the vacuum.
• What Will Equitable Recovery Look Like? A Perspective from the Greater New Orleans Foundation
  A pandemic whose effects are universal but vastly uneven requires a response that is at once comprehensive and granular. Community foundations, which pool resources for strategic regional grantmaking, are positioned to deliver it.
• Arcturos: Providing for Bear Necessities
  Arcturos, meaning “Guardian of the Bear” in ancient Greek, works for the conservation of bears and the protection of their natural habitat in the mountainous region of Florina in northern Greece.
• A Company where Inclusive Employment Is the Fashion
  855 kilometers is roughly the distance from Paris to Berlin. It’s also the length of fabric ethical fashion brand Progetto Quid has given new life, while empowering disadvantaged groups through employment.
• Boroume: Saving food to save people from hunger
  Our journey with Boroume (which means “we can”) started in 2011—at the peak of the Greek financial and socioeconomic crisis.
• Theater of War Productions: Confronting hard truths through theater
  I watched from afar, in France, the brutality of recent incidents of racial injustice in the U.S. and the demonstrations they ignited.