NEW YORK, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stavros Niarchos
Foundation (SNF) announced the second round of grants in its
$100 million global relief initiative
to help alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-five
grants totaling more than $27.7
million focus on responding to urgent community needs across
the United States, including food
aid and support for young people; increasing Greece's intensive care facilities and
COVID-19 testing capacity; and strengthening health-care services
in Europe and Africa.
Full list of grants
"This crisis has shown us that people all around the world are
bound together by the same threats and challenges," said SNF
Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos.
"But it has shown that, if we choose, we can also be bound together
by the good we are able to do with, and for, one another. These
organizations are providing vital services to meet the immediate
needs of the most vulnerable in communities around the globe, and
SNF is deeply grateful for their work and for the opportunity to be
of help."
In the U.S., community organizations are uniquely positioned to
implement coordinated, comprehensive responses to a crisis
affecting every sphere of life but with unequal impacts. Grants
totaling over $2 million to United
Way for Southeastern
Michigan, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, the Greater New
Orleans Foundation, the San Antonio Food Bank, the Bangor
Region YMCA, and The New York Community Trust support
these vital, resource-pooling organizations in hard-hit regions to
maximize aid to families in need of food, childcare, and other
services.
"Our philanthropic partners have rushed to help the nonprofits
that form a safety net for our most vulnerable," said Lorie Slutsky, President of the The New York
Community Trust. "As tough as this public health crisis has been,
the altruism of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation is a welcome
reminder that the city will get through this and emerge even
stronger."
$755,000 in additional grants to
nonprofits in the New York area
will help meet immediate needs for food, mental health support, and
essentials.
Lost educational and developmental opportunities for young
people risk devastating long-lasting effects, and grants totaling
over $1.6 million will maintain
mentoring support and community networks that help them reach their
potential, including a $1 million
grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
While Greece has so far escaped
widespread COVID-19 infection, SNF is working with the Greek
government to strengthen the country's health system for whatever
might come next, building on its ongoing Health Initiative. A
$17.8 million-plus grant will create
facilities to add 177 intensive care and 46 high-dependency beds,
and training for ICU staff. A further $4
million-plus grant will bolster Greece's ability to test widely for COVID-19
and implement a data-based response, mirroring SNF's previous
$3 million grant for Johns Hopkins University's Testing Insights
Initiative.
In Spain, grants totaling
$980,000 will aid the most
vulnerable: people experiencing homelessness, migrants, sex
workers, and people with developmental disabilities. And Sant Joan
de Déu Barcelona Children's Hospital will create a biobank open to
all researchers to advance understanding of COVID-19 in children
and pregnant women.
CEO Dr. Manel del Castillo Rey
noted, "The absence of reliable scientific data on how COVID-19
affects children and pregnant women has hampered development of
potentially lifesaving knowledge for all of us. This grant will
enable researchers worldwide to better understand the disease,
establishing the basis for susceptibility and, consequently,
prospective treatments."
Grants totaling $387,000 to
organizations working in 21 countries across Africa seek to reinforce strained health
resources by providing critical supplies as well as
infection-control support.
These new grants, together with over $31
million allocated to some of the world's hardest-hit areas
in the first round of SNF's $100
million global relief initiative, total $59 million. Subsequent grants will target
emerging socioeconomic and educational impacts. First-round
grantees include The Rockefeller
University, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Fund for Public
Health in New York City, and many
others.
About the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is one of the world's
leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making
grants to nonprofit organizations in the areas of arts and culture,
education, health and sports and social welfare. SNF funds
organizations and projects worldwide that aim to achieve a broad,
lasting, and positive impact for society at large and exhibit
strong leadership and sound management. The Foundation also
supports projects that facilitate the formation of public-private
partnerships as an effective means for serving public welfare.
Since 1996, the Foundation has committed more than $3 billion through more than 4,600 grants to
nonprofit organizations in 126 nations around the world.
See more at SNF.org.
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