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Envolve Award Greece Highlights Promising Start-Ups for 2022

Envolve Entrepreneurship, the non-profit empowering Greece's start-up ecosystem by providing education, resources, and monetary prizes to entrepreneurs, announced on Wednesday the three winners of the Envolve Award Greece. This is the tenth year of the program, which was created in...

“Hope is Free”: The Inspiring Speech by Libra Group’s George Logothetis

Chairman and CEO of Libra Group George Logothetis delivered a truly inspiring speech recently at the 2022 One To World Fulbright Awards Dinner in New York. Logothetis, who leads the international business group whose subsidiaries own and operate assets in...

Georgetown University Launches Psaros Center

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business announced on Monday the launch of the Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. The center provides thought leadership that directly impacts global finance by advancing the dialogue around public and private markets, conducting...

Pfizer’s Albert Bourla Receives Top Greek Honor

Pfizer's Albert Bourla received the Greek top honor by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, in a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday. The Thessaloniki-born scientist was awarded the Golden Cross of the Order of the...

Greece Delivers 14 Tons of Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine

Greece delivered 14 tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said.  The aid was transported by trucks to the Ukrainian-Romanian border, from where it was picked up by other means of transport. Commander of the Joint Forces...

Despite Pandemic, Leadership 100 Organizes Landmark Conference in Florida

The 31st Annual Leadership 100 Conference that took place in Naples, Florida last week was dedicated to the Centennial of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Leadership 100 was created in 1984 under the guidance of Archbishop Iakovos as an endowment...

Stavros Niarchos Center Marks Five Years as Greece’s New Cultural Landmark

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) has become a cultural landmark in Greece since it was turned over to the Greek state in 2017. The SNFCC, a project unique in Greece, is a public space for expression, culture, and...

Elon Musk to Help Tonga Restore Internet via Starlink Satellites

Elon Musk, the brilliant engineer and entrepreneur, is ready to help Tonga restore internet service with his Starlink satellites after the volcano eruption and tsunami destroyed the only undersea cable that had given the Pacific island nation communications connections...

Viral Photo Gives Renewed Hope to Syrian Refugee Family

The photo of a Syrian refugee who had lost a leg in a bomb attack, hoisting into the air his son, born without limbs, went viral last year in Italy. On Friday, Munzir El Nezzel, the man in the picture,...

Nick Smyrnis, Former Supreme President of AHEPA, Passes Away

The Greek-American fraternal organization AHEPA released a statement on the death of a former Supreme President Nick Smyrnis on Monday. Smyrnis, who was 98, served in the highest capacity in AHEPA from 1979 to 1981. "AHEPA deeply mourns the passing...

Global Initiative Launched to Replant Ancient Olympia’s Olive Trees

A new global initiative was recently launched to help restore the birthplace of the Olympic Games at Ancient Olympia, where 450,000 olive trees were destroyed by the catastrophic fires of last summer. By Stacy Dimakakos Last summer Greece experienced one of the...

Greek-Australian Man Needs Help in Battling Multiple Sclerosis

Greek-Australian man Dimitri Garbas, a father of two, has been battling multiple sclerosis since 2017. Fighting off crippling nerve pain and an array of other symptoms, he is now pinning his hopes on trying a new treatment that he...

Leadership 100 Commemorates 100th Anniversary of Greek Orthodox Archdiocese

The 31st Annual Leadership 100 Conference taking place on February 10-13, 2022 will be dedicated to the Centennial of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Opening at The Ritz-Carlton Naples in Naples, Florida the Leadership 100 Conference will bring together...

The Guardian Angels Helping Greek Children in Need this Holiday Season

The NGO "Mazi gia to Paidi," or "Together for Children," has been supporting Greek children facing all forms of difficulty, including bullying, disease, poverty, hunger, mental illness, and abuse, since its formation in 1996. Speaking to Greek Reporter, Alexandra Martinou,...

Hellenic Initiative Donation Improves Lives of Children in Greece

The Hellenic Initiative (THI) - a global movement of the Greek Diaspora - donated an additional $30,000 to the child welfare organization in Greece ‘Mazi Gia to Pedi - Together for Children’ (TFC) this week. THI, which recently held its...