Our Programs
LOUKOUMI international good deed council
The Loukoumi Foundation hosts an International Good Deed Council of schools worldwide, monthly, across 14 hours of time zones, these students enthusiastically meet on Zoom to share their cultures and customs, the good deed projects they are working on in their communities and together they collaborate on global good deed projects.
The Council is also planning the first annual Loukoumi Good Deed Council Summit in April 2025 in New York.
If your school is interested in joining the council, please email us at info@loukoumifoundation.org
LOUKOUMI GOOD DEED OF THE MONTH ZOOM
Join us monthly for our Loukoumi Good Deed of the Month Zoom. Students watch live or a recording afterwards and collaborate on a global good deed project. Zooms have been hosted in India, Tanzania, Italy, Gander Newfoundland Canada, Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, New York and from NY Mets Spring Training. To participate email us at info@loukoumifoundation.org
LOUKOUMI GOOD DEED SCHOOL CURRICULUM
The Loukoumi Make a Difference Foundation collaborates with over 300 schools worldwide through our exclusive good deed curriculum. We design a program that fits each school’s needs and budget and can include the following components:
A dedicated Dream day program at your school
Good Deed Bus as class trips (bottom right students at Gander Elementary School)
A writing workshop for the next Inspiring Stories book
Monthly good deed school visits (in person or virtual), book readings, projects and signings
Loukoumi Feeds the Hungry program; cook for an area homeless shelter
Adopt a Nursing Home Program with local seniors
Loukoumi Good Deed Celebration Fair in your school
Loukoumi Make A Difference Awards program
A discussion with students about identifying a good deed project that they are passionate about
For additional information or to discuss a proposal for your school, email us at info@Loukoumifoundation@org
loukoumi Good Deed Buses
Our Loukoumi Good Deed Buses travel cities around the world as we organize daylong community service tours in cities where children perform good deeds at several locations of their choice including visits to homeless and animal shelters, nursing homes and children’s hospitals, beach and park cleanups, and more. Buses have been in Puerto Rico, Lake Como Italy, Derry Northern Ireland, gander Newfoundland Canada and across the United States. To host a Loukoumi Good Deed Bus in your city email us at: info@loukoumifoundation.org
Watch our Loukoumi Good Deed Bus Trip in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
loukoumi Dream Day Program
The Loukoumi Make a Difference Foundation makes kids’ career dreams come true. Based on our book, Growing Up With Loukoumi, our Dream Day Contest gives kids the opportunity to spend a day in their dream day careers with their heroes. Past contest winners have watched a spaceship land on Mars at NASA, danced with Misty Copeland at the American Ballet Theatre, played football with the NY Giants, cooked with celebrity chefs, trained with the coach and members of the US Men's Olympic Swim Team, spent the day with a renowned neurosurgeon at Columbia University Medical Center, and served meals to the hungry with Jon Bon Jovi, just to name a few.
Denise from PS 205 in the Bronx lived her Loukoumi Dream Day of being a neurologist with reknowned neurosurgeon Dr. Grace Mandigo at Coumbia University Medical Center.
TEACHING KITCHEN AT THE FLOATING HOSPITAL
The Chef Maria Loi / Loukoumi Make A Difference Foundation Teaching Kitchen For Families at the Floating Hospital in Long Island City hosts schools and families with hands-on education and tools for managing chronic illnesses, maintaining nutritious diets and developing social and practical life skills. The Loukoumi Foundation has funded $40,000 of its pledged $50,000 to sponsor this initiative where children also come into the kitchen and cook food that is then brought to homeless shelters as part of the Loukoumi Feeds The Hungry Program.
LOUKOUMI adopt a nursing home program
The Loukoumi Foundation visits nursing homes worldwide with students who play board games, talk and become friends with the residents. Through our Making A Difference Through the Arts Program, students also engage in intergenerational painting classes and perform at local nursing homes for the residents.
Loukoumi Foundation Treatment Room at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
We launched a treatment room and literacy program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where patients, who often miss several weeks or even months of school, receive reading instruction while they receive their cancer treatments. This project is funded predominantly by donations from kids in schools worldwide, who are making caring cards for patients and donating one dollar each. To date, the Loukoumi kids have raised over $150,000. To participate and support this program Click Here and PDF Outline
Loukoumi outside the Loukoumi Foundation Treatment Room at St. Jude.
LOUKOUMI KIDS CLUB
The Loukoumi Kids Club (LKC) is a program for young service leaders who share the Foundation’s vision of a future in which all children have the opportunity to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others by paying forward their talents through projects and causes that mean something to them.
LOUKOUMI FEEDS THE HUNGRY (ANTI-HUNGER)
Loukoumi Feeds the Hungry teaches children and young adults the important role good nutrition plays in their physical and mental wellness as they prepare and serve warm meals to local persons in need.
The Loukoumi Make a Difference Foundation also participates annually in the New York Mets Summer Food Drive benefiting The River Fund NY.
LOUKOUMI GOOD DEED CELEBRATION
Loukoumi Foundation Good Deeds Celebration is an event held in schools worldwide that brings together children, organizations and schools to showcase their good deeds projects. The event provides support for good deeds projects, and inspiration for new ones.
LOUKOUMI Literacy and Community Service program sponsored by george’s angels
The Loukoumi Make a Difference Foundation created an eight-part, interactive literacy program. Each month, students read a Loukoumi book, discuss its lesson and perform good deeds inspired by the book’s message. Participating schools include the Catholic Schools in the NY Archdiocese, the Diocese of Brooklyn, The Diocese of Bridgeport CT, the Diocese of Birmingham AL, and Mobile AL and the Diocese of Trenton NJ. This program is sponsored by the generosity of Eileen and Gary Franklin and George’s Angels whose mission is “Changing the world one kind act at a time.”
Literacy Program
The Loukoumi Make a Difference Foundation provides books for sale to schools and organizations across the country to raise money for a variety of literacy awareness projects and other supported charities. Proceeds raised are donated to more than a dozen charities and over 50,000 Loukoumi books have been donated by Author Nick Katsoris to programs worldwide.
BULLYING AWARENESS (ANTI-BULLYING)
The Loukoumi Make a Difference Foundation in collaboration with PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center uses Loukoumi And The Schoolyard Bully in a Bullying Awareness program in schools across the country. Following readings of the book kids will be asked to take Pacer’s Kids Against Bullying Pledge.
