When disaster strikes, speed of response and experience matters. We have supported organizations with the capacity to act quickly and deliver aid on the ground in response to natural disasters, disease, and humanitarian crises.
2020-2021, COVID-19 Pandemic, Worldwide
Responding to a staggering crisis whose health and socioeconomic implications were only beginning to be glimpsed, in April 2020 SNF announced the first round of grants in its $100 million global COVID-19 relief initiative. Over the next year, SNF support helped partners working in 50 countries across five continents meet the urgent needs in local communities. The expertise and on-the-ground insights of these partners informed the 208 grants made as part of the initiative.
2020, Medicane Ianos, Greece
2016, Drought, Ethiopia
Support for Oxfam
2016, Crisis in the Lake Chad Region
Support for Action contre la Faim and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
2015, Earthquake, Nepal
Support for Oxfam GB and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
2014, Earthquake, Kephalonia
Support for the Nursing Home for the Elderly – Lixouri Charity Foundation
2014, Flooding, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Support for Oxfam, the the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Mozaik Foundation
The emergency situation that Serbia and Bosnia found themselves in, in the space of a few days, motivated the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to take immediate action and support recovery efforts in both countries.
SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos
2014, Ebola Outbreak, West Africa
Support for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
2013, Typhoon Haiyan, The Phillippines
Support for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam, and Save the Children UK
2012 and Onward, Socioeconomic Crisis, Greece
For more than a decade, Greece experienced a deep, draining economic crisis triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008. In response, SNF established two major new initiatives to respond to the dire effects of this crisis, in addition to the Foundation’s usual grantmaking: Grants Against the Greek Crisis and Recharging the Youth.
2012, Hurricane Sandy, United States
Support for the Queens Library Foundation, Safe Space, Citymeals-on-Wheels, the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation
2011, Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan
Support for the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Japan Society
2010, Earthquake, Chile
2010, Earthquake, Haiti
Support for Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and the International Rescue Committee
2008, Earthquake, China
Support for China Charity Federation and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
2008, Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar
Support for Action Aid, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and UNICEF USA
2005, Earthquake, Pakistan
Support for the International Rescue Committee and Oxfam
2005, Hurricane Katrina, United States
Support for American Red Cross of Greater New York, a relief concert in Athens, students displaced by the disaster in continuing their education at the American College of Thessaloniki
2004, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Support for the US-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission, the Indonesian Foundation for Intercultural Learning, the Rajaprajanugroth Foundation, the Indonesian International Education Foundation, Monaco Aide et Presence, the Somdet Pratep´s Charity, the American Red Cross
2003, Earthquake, Iran
Support for the Red Cross of Monaco
2003, Earthquake, Algeria
Support for the Red Cross of Monaco
2001, Earthquake, El Salvador
Support for the Red Cross of Monaco
1999, Earthquake, Greece
Support for the Municipality of Athens, World in Harmony, and SOS Children’s Villages
Learn more about SNF’s support for proactive emergency preparation and rapid relief efforts
