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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) has announced a new round of grants in its $100 million global relief initiative to help alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This third round brings the total allocated to $61.5 million and places particular emphasis on supporting expert organizations working collaboratively to address challenges tied to the pandemic’s socioeconomic impact.
Twenty grants totaling more than $2.75 million, as part of the Foundation's 100 million global COVID-19 relief initiative, focus on helping avoid educational shortfalls for academically vulnerable students, supporting new and creative food distribution structures, offering psychological support and emergency relief to specially affected groups, and ensuring the future of smaller theaters and artistic residency programs.
“It’s now more important than ever that we stay the course in combatting COVID-19 and working to the best of our ability to alleviate its ongoing impact,” said SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos. “Even as fatigue sets in with the limitations the pandemic has imposed, its effects are expanding and deepening around the globe. SNF is focused on collaborating with our grantee partners to implement the pandemic relief grants we’ve made so far and continuing our support in key areas. We’re deeply grateful to these organizations for the essential work they’re doing, and their commitment to being there for the long haul.”
UNITED STATES
Bridging Educational Gaps
While it feels like much of life is on hold, it’s not possible to hit pause on a young person’s education and development. Grants to educational organizations working in New York City and supporting teachers around the country cover gaps created by the pandemic to help ensure that every student has the opportunity to keep growing and learning even as the pandemic heightens existing educational inequalities.
Innovative and Robust Systems for Food Access
Even before the pandemic hit, urban food systems were not sufficiently serving everyone, with strong disparities in access between communities, and food insecurity and strain on distribution systems have only increased. Grants support organizations in New York City and Baltimore taking innovative approaches to creating systems that address food insecurity in ways that benefit not only consumers, but also producers and vendors.
Sustaining Smaller Arts Organizations
While a few big-name organizations tend to come to mind when we think of the arts sector, these exist only within a rich ecosystem of smaller organizations and individual artists. As the disruption caused to arts organizations stretches out and puts their futures at risk, grants will support small New York City theaters and arts nonprofits that host crucial residencies.
Protective Equipment for First Responders
A grant to the New York City Fire Department’s not-for-profit arm will help make sure those on the frontlines of the fight against the pandemic are properly equipped.
EUROPE
Grants to nonprofits in France, Italy, and Spain focus on programs tailored to the educational needs of particular groups, psychological support to vulnerable populations, and the essential needs that underlie both.
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
A grant to a Spain-based nonprofit will help address needs in education, health, and food security in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico.
AFRICA
A grant to a UK-based nonprofit will help support a wide variety of programs related to education and emergency relief in Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and Nigeria.
Mali: Providing emergency food aid for vulnerable families
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Installing hand-washing facilities and gender-divided restroom facilities in 14 educational centers, implementing COVID-19 transmission reduction efforts at schools, providing financial support to girls most at risk of dropping out of school
Nigeria: Delivering distance education and offering guidance to parents on psychological support and homeschooling
Uganda: Providing emergency cash assistance to high-need families, offering distance education resources
Zambia: Training hundreds of volunteers to aid in math and literacy distance learning, supporting the Zambian Ministry of Education in distributing self-study materials nationally to children
Kenya: Providing educational and play materials to refugee children
These new grants add to two previous rounds in SNF’s pandemic relief initiative that are already helping grantees deliver impact. CRESCER’s small social enterprise restaurant that employs people who have experienced homelessness. has distributed 400,000 meals on the streets of Lisbon since the start of the crisis. By employing women living with HIV as frontline health workers, mothers2mothers reached over a quarter of a million new clients in Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia with health services in the first quarter of the year. The Artist Relief initiative, to which SNF provided support through United States Artists, has so far made $5,000 emergency relief grants to 1,300 artists practicing in 49 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Other previously announced grantees include the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the San Antonio Food Bank, Bangor Region YMCA, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children’s Hospital, The Rockefeller University, the Robin Hood Foundation, the French Red Cross, Boroume, Fondazione Progetto Arca, and many others.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
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