Mike Manatos Appointed Executive Director of The Hellenic Initiative

Mike Manatos has been appointed arsenic the caller Executive Director of The Hellenic Initiative (THI), effectual May 1, 2025.

Manatos brings implicit 35 years of acquisition successful authorities relations, nationalist policy, and strategical consulting. He is the 3rd procreation of the Manatos household to specialise successful these areas and has built trusted relationships with policymakers connected some sides of the governmental aisle.

In his caller role, Manatos aims to leverage his extended inheritance to further THI’s ngo of mobilising the Greek diaspora and Philhellene assemblage to enactment Greece’s semipermanent betterment and renewal. His erstwhile enactment roles see serving connected the enforcement boards of Leadership 100 and the National Hellenic Society, arsenic good arsenic co-founding and serving arsenic Executive Director of the Washington Oxi Day Foundation.

Manatos antecedently served arsenic President of Manatos & Manatos and co-founded the Washington Oxi Day Foundation, portion besides holding enactment roles with organizations specified arsenic Leadership 100, the National Hellenic Society, and Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic.

“Having spent his full vocation moving with the enactment of the planetary Greek diaspora and promoting Greece astir the world, Mike brings to this relation unsocial and invaluable experience, relationships, and passion,” said THI Co-Founder and Board President George P. Stamas.

THI is simply a planetary nonprofit organisation dedicated to supporting sustainable economical improvement and situation alleviation successful Greece.

Since its founding successful 2012, THI has raised implicit $35 million, distributing 322 grants crossed economical improvement and situation relief. These initiatives person helped reverse Greece’s encephalon drain with 4,500 nonstop occupation placements, delivered implicit 1.5 cardinal hours of mentoring, and funded much than $6 cardinal successful startup capital. On the humanitarian front, THI has distributed implicit 400,000 meals successful 2024 unsocial and served implicit 30,000 children affected by poverty, abuse, oregon disability.

“After 13 years of inspired enactment by truthful many, THI has a way grounds of unifying the planetary Greek Diaspora to marque a affirmative interaction successful Greece… the sky’s the bounds for wherever THI volition go, arsenic we Dare to Dream together.”

THI’s Board Chairman Andrew N. Liveris echoed this optimism: “After a singular archetypal 13 years, THI is gearing up for an adjacent much impactful future. Mike volition beryllium an indispensable portion of shaping and implementing our bold vision.”

“I person been blessed to person spent my full nonrecreational and idiosyncratic beingness promoting Hellenism and Orthodoxy portion moving intimately with the astir palmy and philanthropic diaspora Greeks,” said Manatos. “Having the accidental to proceed and adjacent amplify this work arsenic THI Executive Director is simply a imagination travel true.”

Father Alex Karloutsos, a THI Executive Board Member, praised the appointment, noting, “His summation to the THI squad is precise exciting. I person seen the trusted relationships and respect helium has built, arsenic did his begetter and gramps earlier him.”

With Manatos present astatine the helm, THI’s enactment is assured the organisation volition proceed to turn its planetary reach, deepen its interaction successful Greece and Cyprus, and animate the adjacent procreation of Philhellenes.

Manatos’ assignment is expected to fortify THI’s efforts successful promoting entrepreneurship, supporting situation alleviation initiatives, and fostering economical improvement successful Greece. His enactment is anticipated to heighten the organisation’s interaction and grow its scope wrong the planetary Greek community.