2010 Programs

Since its inception, grants from Faith funded many merit-based scholarships to students graduating from public, parochial and private high schools across the country for excellence in Education. In 2009, a generous grant from Faith supported the expansion of the scholarship program which originally only included valedictorians and salutatorians to also include students who displayed extraordinary academic achievement and displayed an acute need for financial support for their university studies.

Supporting academic excellence:
This year’s scholarship recipients, all of whom are attending the country’s leading colleges and universities, are especially impressive young people. In addition to their exceptional intellectual abilities and academic achievements, they have also actively participated in programs for the young people of the Hellenic American community and dedicated their skills and time to several extracurricular school activities, athletics, and community service initiatives. Faith scholarship recipients display the extraordinary scholarly intellect lauded by our Hellenic ancestors and a magnificent spirit of charity, philanthropy and altruism which is at the very core of our Orthodox Christian humanitarian values.

Each year, Faith also supports approximately 25 scholarship awards to the winners of the St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival.

In 2010, Faith partnered with the Fulbright Foundation of Greece and funded relevant graduate scholarships and research scholarships to promote US-Greece scholarly exchanges and collaborations.

Promoting Orthodoxy and Hellenism:
This summer, Faith: An Endowment for Orthodoxy and Hellenism also underwrote a series of financial aid scholarships to 34 students traveling to Ionian Village to experience Greece and learn more about their Hellenic heritage through visits to ancient sites, monasteries, and cultural institutions.

In 2009, funding from Faith supported the completion of Phase 1 of the realization of a project of monumental linguistic, social, and historical importance to people of Hellenic descent in the United States and especially for the children and future generations of our community; Faith proudly supported the publication of new textbooks, Ta Ellinika Mou, for Greek Language instruction for our the Greek Language and Culture schools. The books are authored by the renowned Linguist Professor George D. Babiniotis and his research team at the University of Athens and are the most sophisticated and comprehensive effort in Greek language instruction to be done to date. The series is truly pedagogically unique as it was developed specifically to teach Greek to American children and was tested by experts in American classrooms as it was being developed. This fall, each student enrolled in the elementary Greek Language and Culture classes received a complimentary set of books from this new series. . In 2010, Faith supported the publication and distribution of Phase 2 of the new textbooks for the intermediate level. The advance level textbooks and multimedia resources (Phase 3) will be forthcoming.

Faith is also underwriting the distribution of dvds including Pascha (ABC TV), The Journey: The Greek American Dream, and 60 Minutes – Interview with His All Holiness, BARTHOLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch (CBS) to all parish and parochial schools as a curriculum resource.

With the generous support and commitment of the Founders to advancing Hellenism, Faith had a significant presence in the educational and technological programming that touched many lives and created the much needed groundwork for new initiatives in Hellenic Education and Culture. A commitment to excellence and realistic long term sustainability is at the core of our mission.