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Concordia Announces 2018 Americas Initiative and Colombian Presidential Debate
In partnership with the Instituto de Ciencia Política Hernán Echavarría Olózaga, Fenalco, Noticias RCN, and NTN24, Concordia, a global nonprofit, nonpartisan convener, idea incubator, and partnership...
The HOME Project receives funding from The Shapiro Foundation
The HOME Project, the international humanitarian non-profit organization which houses and employs refugee children and youth stranded in Greece during the current crisis, has received a generous...
Envolve, a new global entrepreneurship support organization
Envolve, a new entrepreneurship organization, aims to serve as a catalyst for investment in early-stage businesses by providing entrepreneurs with easy access to capital, knowledge...
INSIGHT: “Davos Diary – A Technology Take on Davos” – by Phaedra Chrousos
Harnessing the positive power of technology can enable the impossible - but we must tread carefully. That was a big lesson to come out of the 2018 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, the almost...
MBKA: Promoting equal opportunity for young boys and men of colour
As a founding sponsor of the My Brother's Keeper Alliance, we’re proud to share this short film promoting equal opportunity for young boys and men of colour. MBK Alliance is an initiative of the Obama Foundation...
Concordia’s most radically inclusive Summit to date
Concordia’s seventh Annual Summit was the largest nonpartisan forum on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, bringing together over 2,600 of the world’s preeminent thought leaders...
€1 million donation from The IKEA Foundation
International humanitarian non-profit organization, The HOME Project (www.homeproject.org), has received a €1 million donation from the IKEA Foundation to support its valuable work in housing and...
Turning Vision into Impact: 2017 Concordia Annual Summit Awards Announcement
Concordia’s seventh Annual Summit was the largest nonpartisan forum on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, bringing together over 2,600 of the world’s preeminent thought leaders, influencers, and...
INSIGHT: Bringing innovation into government
Phaedra Chrousos, chief innovation officer at Libra Group and founding commissioner of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service, discusses how private sector organizations can help accelerate...
2017 Concordia Summit to Focus on Advancing SDGs through Partnerships
Concordia will host the 2017 Concordia Annual Summit on September 18 and 19 at the Grand Hyatt, New York. Held alongside the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly as a Global Goals...
American Entrepreneurship Award in the Bronx 2017 Winners Announced
The American Entrepreneurship Award (AEA), a program created to support start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, has announced the winners of its second annual contest. The award focuses on...
American Entrepreneurship Award in Miami-Dade County 2017 Winners Announced
The American Entrepreneurship Award (AEA), a program created to support start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, has announced the winners of its second annual contest. The award focuses on...
Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2017 Winners Announced
On Friday June 9, the fifth annual Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) ceremony for start-up and early-stage Greek businesses, took place at the Antigone Hall of Cultural Centre “Hellenic”...
Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2017 finalists announced
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) has announced the 10 finalists of this year’s award for start-up and early-stage businesses, competing for up to €1,250,000 in funding...
INSIGHT: The HOME Project – No Child Alone
The HOME Project is one of our philanthropic initiatives. It is a non-profit organization set up to address the needs of refugee and child migrants, who arrive in Europe alone. Watch the video here...
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to address inaugural Concordia Europe Summit in Athens
Concordia, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that builds partnerships for social impact, will welcome former Vice President of the United States, recipient of...
INSIGHT: “Power shifts in a multipolar world” – by Nicholas Logothetis
Concordia co-founder and Chairman Nicholas Logothetis recently gave a speech to the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece on the challenges to today’s world where power shifts and paradigm changes bring...
Applications close for Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2017
The fifth cycle of the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) has closed for entries with a record number of entrepreneurs applying – almost 15% more than in 2016. This year more than 1,250 budding and...
Former White House Staffer Diana Doukas joins Libra Group
Libra Group has appointed Diana Doukas as Director of Social Responsibility based at its Washington, D.C., office. She joins after most recently serving as the Director of the White House...
INSIGHT: “Libra Group Internships: celebrating five years of international opportunities”
The Libra Group Internship Program, established in 2011 with the first entrants coming through in 2012, is celebrating five years. What’s more, it is posting headline numbers: applications for the 2017 intake...
Second annual American Entrepreneurship Award opens for entries
The American Entrepreneurship Award (AEA), a program created and funded by Libra Group to support American start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, announced today that it has begun accepting...
INSIGHT: “Trump’s extreme vetting for refugees? Already here” – by Nicholas Logothetis and Stephen Yale-Loehr
In this article, which first appeared in USA Today, Nicholas Logothetis, co-founder and Chairman of Concordia and Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice...
Concordia hosts first 2017 LatAm Summit in Bogota, Feb 21
Concordia Co-Founders, Nicholas Logothetis and Matthew Swift, in partnership with the Instituto de Ciencia Política Hernán Echavarría Olózaga (ICP), have announced that the second convening of...
The HOME Project – supporting refugees and vulnerable children
Libra Group has created a new initiative within its Social Responsibility division to focus on the refugee crisis in mainland Europe, particularly the plight of unaccompanied children...
Libra Group debuts new visual identity
Over a decade after the creation of its original logo, Libra Group has introduced a fresh, modern evolution of its corporate logo. The new visual identity is launched today and will feature across all Libra...
Libra Group invests in historic Washington D.C. property for its new base in the US capital
Libra Group has invested in an historic townhouse in Washington, D.C., to serve as its new base in the capital of the United States of America. Located near M street in the city’s Georgetown district...
Concordia chooses Athens for first European summit
Concordia Co-Founders, Nicholas Logothetis and Matthew Swift, have announced Concordia Europe, a Summit that will highlight the potential for effective collaboration between businesses, governments, and...
Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2017
Following the successful completion of four award cycles, the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA), invites start-up businesses to submit their business plans to compete for the fifth annual award program...
Libra appoints new Chief Innovation Officer
Libra Group has appointed its first Chief Innovation Officer, Phaedra Chrousos, to advance and embed the use of innovation and technology across its 30 global businesses. The appointment is part of a strategic...
INSIGHT: “The Importance of the Women in My Life” – Concordia 2016
Libra Chairman and CEO, George Logothetis, talks about the importance of the women in his life at the 2016 Concordia Summit...
Anita McBride introduces George Logothetis...
Libra Group participates in White House call-to-action over global refugee crisis
Libra Group has today announced its participation as a partner in the White House call-to-action for private sector engagement on the global refugee...
2016 Concordia Summit convenes more than 200 world leaders
Dozens of heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, global non-profit leaders, and internationally renowned thought leaders will take the stage at the 6th annual Concordia Summit, September 19th and 20th...
BROADCAST: BronxNet, Open Monday – transforming lives in the Bronx
Former White House staffer and Libra Group Head of Washington D.C. Office Maurice Owens joins with Assemblyman Michael Blake and WIBO CEO Jill Johnson to talk Libra partnership...
Libra Group signs up to White House Equal Pay Pledge
Today, on Women’s Equality Day, Libra Group announces that it is among the signatories to the White House Equal Pay Pledge. The initiative encourages...
INSIGHT: “The Opportunity in Adversity” – Beyond Conference 2016
Libra Chairman and CEO, George Logothetis, talks about opportunity in adversity at the 2016 Beyond Conference. Calling upon his family’s experience he explains how the...
Libra Group commits to 30 international fellowships with Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Libra Group has undertaken to support 30 international students with new fellowship funding through a three-year commitment in partnership with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
American Entrepreneurship Award names 2016 winners
The American Entrepreneurship Award (AEA), a program created to support start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, has announced the winners of its first...
American Entrepreneurship Award to support Bronx-based entrepreneurs through new partnership with WIBO
The American Entrepreneurship Award (AEA), a program created and funded by Libra Group to support start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, has teamed up with Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO)...
The Seleni Institute to hold maternal mental health training day in Athens
The Seleni Institute, a non-profit organization based in New York City and dedicated to providing the care, information...
INSIGHT: “When you raise a person, you raise a community” by George Logothetis
Remarks by George M. Logothetis, Chairman and CEO of Libra Group at the 2015 Concordia Summit
Libra Group is a founding partner of ‘Fair Chance Business Pledge’
Libra Group, the privately owned diversified business group with 30 subsidiaries active across six continents, has announced that it has joined with the Obama Administration and companies from across...
Applications close for Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2016
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) has closed for entries to the 2016 competition. 1100 hopeful entrepreneurs registered via the award website in order to...
The Grace Foundation pledges €600,000 to ELEPAP – Rehabilitation for the disabled
The charitable foundation of the Grace Hotels group has announced its support for ELEPAP – Rehabilitation for The Disabled, a rehabilitation centre with six branches throughout Greece that supports the development of children...
INSIGHT: Memories of yesterday, or hopes for tomorrow? George Logothetis
Remarks by George M. Logothetis, Chairman and CEO of Libra Group at the 2013 Concordia Summit
Libra Group’s inaugural ‘American Entrepreneurship Award’ open for entries
Libra Group, the privately owned diversified business group with 30 subsidiaries active across six continents, has announced that its inaugural American Entrepreneurship Award (AEA) is now open...
Second Young Parent Expo for pregnant and parenting teens proves to be Seleni Institute’s most popular teen event
The Seleni Institute has received a flood of interest for its second Young Parent Expo, to take place on February 6, 2016. The full-capacity event will feature expanded programming for about 100 pregnant and parenting teens aged 14 to 22...
The Fourth Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award opens for Entries
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) has announced that its fourth annual award is now open and invites start-up businesses in Greece to enter by submitting their business plans at the HEA website, www.hellenicaward.com...
Grace Foundation donates to SOS Children’s Villages
The Grace Foundation, through its ‘Give with Grace’ initiative, has made its first donation under its partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, its designated charity. A total of $56,400 has been raised through...
First Seleni Institute Young Parent Expo brings parenting know-how to New York City teens
The Seleni Institute has held its first Young Parent Expo in New York City to extend its current services to pregnant and parenting adolescents between the ages of 14-22 in an event fully aligned with its aims to reach more...
Libra Group launches the “American Entrepreneurship Award”
Libra Group, the privately owned diversified business group with 30 subsidiaries active across six continents, has announced a $500,000 commitment...
Vice President Joe Biden to address 5th Concordia Summit
Vice President Joe Biden will deliver remarks on the first day of the 5th Annual Concordia Summit on October 1, 2015. “We are honoured to welcome Vice President Biden to this year’s Summit...
Dept. of State, UVA Darden School, and Concordia announce…
The Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships at the U.S. Department of State, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute for Business in Society and Concordia today announced...
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award Announces 2015 Winners
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) has announced three winners of the 2015 award who, in addition to sharing prize funding of up to €1,000,000, will be provided with an expert mentor and a range of business support services. This year the HEA has again achieved...
Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2015 Finalists Announced
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) has revealed the 10 finalists who are competing for the 2015 prize of up to €1,000,000 in funding as well as support services and mentorship for their new business ventures. The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award was launched in...
Seleni Congressional Luncheon Presents Huck Leadership Award to Two Extraordinary Mothers and Leaders in Public Service
The Seleni Institute, dedicated to providing the care, information, and research funding critical to supporting mothers and families, hosted a congressional luncheon in honor of the recipients of the Winnifred Mason Huck Leadership Award, Secretary of Health and Human...
INSIGHT: “Important piece on depression in pregnancy in The New York Times” by Christiane Manzella, PhD, FT
- Let's all join this critical conversation
Libra Group announces partnership with President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
Libra Group has announced that it is a founding sponsor of the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Alliance, launched today by President Obama in the Bronx...
The Grace Foundation pledges €1.2 million to Greek charities
The charitable foundation of Grace Hotels has announced a pledge of €1.2 million to two leading Greek charities – Hatzikyriakio Institution, one of the oldest childcare institutions in Greece, and public health institute, Prolepsis. The Grace Foundation which has always had close...
Libra Group to open Washington, D.C. office
Libra Group, the privately owned diversified business group with 30 subsidiaries across five continents, has announced a new corporate office in Washington, DC and appointed Maurice M. Owens, former advisor to White House Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough, to manage...
INSIGHT: “The importance of maternity leave for maternal mental health” by Nitzia Logothetis, MSc, MA
- It's time to prioritize the well-being of women and families
HEA increases 2015 award funding to €1 million
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award has announced that it has raised the prize funding for its 2015 winners from €700,000 to €1 million. This follows intensified interest in this year’s award program with record numbers...