Events presenting issues of wider interest regarding the NGO ecosystem and beyond
24 October 2018: More than 30 participants from NGOs attended the Outreach Event: NGOs & Responsible Leadership and the speech of Markus Hipp, Member of the Board of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt and Member of the Advisory Board of HIGGS. Markus Hipp explained what “responsible leadership” means and talked about the experiences he has…
04 June 2018 – The speakers of the “Outreach Event: Greek NGOs & Fundraising in the U.S.A.” were Mrs. Ellena Fotinatos, Deputy Director at King Baudouin Foundation U.S. and Eleni Alexaki, Senior Cultural Affairs Specialist at the Department of Education at the US Embassy. Mrs. Fotinatos presented the work of the King Baudouin Foundation U.S. while…
9 March 2018 – Considering that communication is the most important basis for building stable partnerships, HIGGS hosted the NGOs & Media Event in order to associate non-governmental organizations in the journalistic field. Representatives of Non-Profit organizations attended the event in order to get precious information and enhance their work aiming at the promotion and…
21 March 2018 – A total of 60 representatives of Greek NGOs attended the event “NGO & Corporate Social Responsibility” where they had the chance to meet experienced speakers of CSR, among which were Dimitris Danilatos, Chief Executive Officer of CSR HELLAS, Rania Soulaki, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Eytichia Varthaliti, of the Corporate Social…
24 January 2018 – 90 organizations, from Greece and abroad, honored us with their presence in the Outreach event: NGOs & Digital Marketing, while we had the pleasure of hosting speakers with extensive experience in business and NGOs sectors. Giorgos Argyrakis, Account Director, Team OTE, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Greece, Suchi Gaur, Communication Specialist South-East Asia, Project…
21 November 2017 – More than 30 NGOs attended the HIGGS event “Outreach: NGOs & Media” with main speakers Ioanna Fotiadi, journalist from the newspaper “Kathimerini”, Melpomeni Maragidou, news editor on “VICE Greece”, and Stauros Malichoudis, journalist from “Inside Story”. The three journalists, all of them experienced on civil society issues spoke about the view…
20 September 2017 – We held the “Outreach Event: NGOs and European Programmes” with the following speakers: Dr Sotiris petropoulos, Director of HIGGS, Dr Antonis Karvounis, Europe for Citizens 2014 – 2020, Contact Point Greece, Ministry of Interior, Kelli Garifalli, Project Manager and General Coordinator, Fair Trade Hellas and Alexandros Theodoridis, Founding Member and Manager…
18 September 2017 – During HIGGS “Outreach Event: NGOs and European Programmes” at the New City Hall of Thessaloniki, participants had the opportunity to learn more about EU Programmes (Erasmus+ KA2, Europe for Citizens, AMIF, Horizon 2020) from Dr Sotirios Petropoulos, HIGGS Director. Dr Petropoulos also shared with them useful tips and best practices on…
1 June 2017 – We held the Outreach Event: NGOs & Crowdfunding in collaboration with ActionAid Hellas, Give & Fund, GlobalGiving, SciFY, and Desmos. Two Crowdfunding platforms and three Greek NGOs joined forces and shared their experience, good practices and useful tools for a successful campaign with the 53 participants coming from the NGO sector…
6 March 2017 – HIGGS held the Outreach Event: Design Thinking, which was attended by more than 20 NGOs. Participants had the chance to get informed about design branches (product, graphic, interior etc) as well as the tools of a product designer by the speaker Giannis Gousdovas, Design Advisor. The presentation is available here.