HIGHLIGHTS

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.

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, 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.

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.

Our journey with Boroume (which means “we can”) started in 2011—at the peak of the Greek financial and socioeconomic crisis.

I watched from afar, in France, the brutality of recent incidents of racial injustice in the U.S. and the demonstrations they ignited.

What made a 1995 heat wave in Chicago ten times deadlier for older people in one neighborhood than in a similar one right next door—and what could this mean for our current public health crisis?

Everyone deserves a chance to grow through education. Unfortunately, this chance is denied to many women with criminal convictions, who struggle to access education during their incarceration or upon release.

This text was written in a living room five kilometers away from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) office in Athens, but it could have been written anywhere—on a remote island, on a mountaintop.