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src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14788585/boroume.jpg&width=430"><span class="date">Boroume: Saving food to save people from hunger</span><br>Our journey with Boroume (which means “we can”) started in 2011—at the peak of the Greek financial and socioeconomic crisis.</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/06/theater-of-war-productions-confronting-hard-truths-through-theater/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14752957/tow_3_credit-matthew-septimus.png&width=430"><span class="date">Theater of War Productions: Confronting hard truths through theater</span><br>I watched from afar, in France, the brutality of recent incidents of racial injustice in the U.S. and the demonstrations they ignited.</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/06/weaving-intergenerational-ties-for-stronger-social-fabric/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14752917/SAGE-Friendly-Visitors_-credit-Brian-Kraus.jpg&width=430"><span class="date">Weaving Ιntergenerational Τies for Stronger Social Fabric</span><br>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?</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/06/college-community-fellowship-helping-women-with-criminal-convictions-earn-college-degrees/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14752910/College-and-Coummunity.jpg&width=430"><span class="date">College & Community Fellowship: Helping women with criminal convictions earn college degrees</span><br>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.</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/05/when-conditions-change-so-do-you/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14689281/img_0231.jpg&width=430"><span class="date">When conditions change, so do you </span><br>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. </a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/05/dynamic-groups-of-women-effect-change-in-provincial-areas/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14689266/FOTO-4.jpg&width=430"><span class="date">Dynamic Groups of Women Effect Change in Provincial Areas</span><br>“Never doubt the power of a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens to change the world; in fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/05/broad-street-ministry-practices-radical-hospitality-in-philadelphia/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14323175/StepUptothePlatePilot4-13-20_JEHCreatives-1-.JPG&width=430"><span class="date">Broad Street Ministry Practices Radical Hospitality in Philadelphia</span><br>SNF supports Broad Street Ministry in providing vital food aid to vulnerable populations in Philadelphia, a mission the pandemic has made simultaneously more necessary and more difficult than ever.</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/05/monumenta-documenting-19-and-20-century-architectural-heritage-in-greece/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14654333/1-MONUMENTA.jpg&width=430"><span class="date">MONUMENTA: Documenting 19th and 20th century architectural heritage in Greece</span><br>One of my favorite pastimes during the COVID-19 confinement in Greece has been walking around to the spots of my city I love the most and enjoying the view, uninterrupted by other passersby, cars, or the noises of other activities happening around. </a></li> <li><a href="/web/20200707132716/https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/05/thousands-of-grants-around-the-world,-one-purpose/"><img src="/web/20200707132716im_/https://www.snf.org/imagegen.ashx?image=/media/14654318/map.jpg&width=430"><span class="date">Thousands of Grants Around the World, One Purpose</span><br>From the Greek mountain village of Vamvakou to Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) has made grants for projects in more than 130 countries. </a></li> </ul> <div 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