The Hellenic Initiative’s Executive Director Mark Arey visited today The Greek Centre in Melbourne to discuss the future of the organization in Australia.

The organization had announced last year its plans to expand its charitable work to another continent.

Co-founded by Greek-Australian Andrew Liveris and four other distinguished entrepreneurs in the United States, The Hellenic Initiative (THI) is a global, nonprofit, secular institution whose vision is to mobilize the Greek diaspora and philhellene community to invest in the future of Greece through programs focused on crisis relief, entrepreneurship and economic development.

THI has been very busy creating and supporting dynamic programs on the ground in Greece. The organization has already directly committed or granted $2 million to support crisis relief efforts and job creation, over $6 million to fund entrepreneurship programs, and almost $10 million to a Greece-focused investment fund.