Service Learning is a new initiative of the Greek America Foundation aiming to engage young college-aged North American students with volunteer programs in Greece.
Our program fulfills a dual purpose: students are immersed into contemporary Greek life while they simultaneously volunteer their time for important humanitarian causes and help to make a lasting impact.
The inaugural Service Learning program took place in July 2017 in Athens, Greece, where we sent ten North American students to spend several weeks volunteering at shelters of The HOME Project, an organization founded to protect and care for unaccompanied refugee minors — children who have arrived in Greece from various conflict zones throughout the world and who are completely alone without families.
The students we selected were carefully screened and then interviewed, given the sensitivity of the project.
Over the course of the program, the volunteers participated in various projects related to both the physical needs of the shelters, as well as the emotional well-being of the refugee children inside them.
Read more about our 2017 program
Based on the success of the 2017 Service Learning program for college students, the Greek America Foundation is launching a Family Service Learning program for high school or college-aged students and their parents in 2018 in Lesvos, Greece. The program is organized with our local partners Iliaktida, a social welfare organization that provides accommodation, protection, and […]
The Greek America Foundation is pleased to announce the Karmanos Semester in Athens Scholarship for study abroad at DEREE- the American College of Greece for 2018. The scholarship is made possible annually, thanks to an endowed gift to the Greek America Foundation by Pete and Danialle Karmanos and covers tuition for a full semester, at […]
The Greek America Foundation is pleased to announce the Semester in Athens Scholarship for study abroad at DEREE- the American College of Greece for 2018. The scholarship, funded in memory of the late businessman and philanthropist Nicholas Tsakalos, covers tuition for a full semester, either spring or fall, or summer session (up to 15 credits). […]
The Greek America Foundation is proud to announce the Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship recipients for 2017 are Eleana Makri of Wesleyan University, Georgios Stamokostas of the University of Texas at Austin, and Ioannis Tsiares of McGill University in Canada. All students are Greek nationals. Each student will receive an award of $5,000 to support […]
This summer, ten North American students were sent by the Greek America Foundation to spend several weeks in Athens, volunteering at shelters of The Home Project, an organization founded to protect and care for unaccompanied refugee minors— children who have arrived in Greece from various conflict zones throughout the world and who are alone and […]
The Greek America Foundation’s Service Learning program volunteers visited United States Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 to discuss their work with unaccompanied refugee minors as well as other contemporary issues facing Greece. The nine American and one Canadian students have now spent a week and a half volunteering at shelters […]
Service Learning is a new initiative of the Greek America Foundation aiming to engage North American university students with volunteer programs in Greece. Our program fulfills a dual purpose. First, students are immersed into contemporary Greek life, while simultaneously volunteering for important humanitarian relief programs and helping to make a lasting impact on contemporary problems […]
The Greek America Foundation is proud to announce that the Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship will be offered for the 2017-2018 academic year for the fifth consecutive year. The scholarship is open to Greek and Greek heritage university graduate students studying for a PhD in either theoretical physics or physical chemistry. Since its inception the […]
Peter and Danialle Karmanos of Detroit announced a $200,000 gift to the Greek America Foundation— specifically, to the Hellenic Legacy Scholarship Endowment Fund, which sends North American college students to Greece for a semester of study at the American College of Greece in Athens. The gift will endow, in perpetuity, the Peter and Danialle Karmanos […]
The Greek America Foundation is proud to announce the Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship recipients for 2016 are Stathis Megas of University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and Anna-Maria Taki of New York University. Both students are Greek nationals. Each student will receive an award of $5,000 to support doctoral research in theoretical physics for the […]
In the summer of 2013 we awarded our first summer Hellenic Legacy scholarship to Ellie Manos of Los Angeles, CA. Ellie’s scholarship was designed to support her love of the arts and her wish to experience Greece for the first time. Ellie spent two months on the Cycladic island of Paros and participated in two […]
