Stavros Niarchos Foundation

The Brookings Institution’s European Growth Project was completed last week in Athens, with the third and final roundtable discussion on European economic issues, following previous meetings in Madrid (March 2013) and Berlin (May 2013). The roundtable conversation was followed by a...

The majority of Greeks tend not to barter goods or buy second-hand items, according to a Public Issue survey commissioned by WWF Greece and unveiled in Thessaloniki on Wednesday. This found that only 12% of Greeks had bartered some...

A recently published report by the global non-profit organization Endeavor Greece came to the conclusion that Greece is going to need another 25 years in order to create the jobs needed to beat unemployment. “Achieving this in less than a...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) board of directors approved a 3-million-euro grant to the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) for the immediate completion of rebuilding work at the museum’s building, the former Fix Brewery, SNF announced on Tuesday. The...

The role of NGOs in society has been questioned since recent revelations about the opaque funding of numerous Greek NGOs and their imaginary social work and charity programs. Despite some bad examples, numerous NGOs in Greece, relying solely on donations from their...

A dormitory for the homeless opened in Thessaloniki, Greece on December 23, 2013. Most of those using the facility are young men who have only been homeless for a few months. “We mainly encounter newly homeless people who used to rent...

Two state-of-the-art Mobile Medical Units and an MRI scanner were inaugurated today by the Health Unit (AEMY S.A.), marking the launch of the National Primary Healthcare Education and Promotion Program in island and border regions of Greece, which is...

The guru of architecture Renzo Piano, visited Athens in absolute secrecy. He was accompanied by a team of collaborators in Greece and abroad, and also by talented Greek students who designed the Visitor Center in the Cultural Center of...

In what is the biggest private venture in Greece, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Foundation is planning to build a "Central Park" in Athens to surround its cultural center, a 566 million euros ($768.46 million) project that government officials said...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation donated $1 million to the Université de Montréal (UdeM) as a contribution to the Campus Montréal campaign. The money will go to provide scholarships for university students from Greece to study at the Université de...