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Membership Info
 AHI is located in an historic building we've named Hellenic House
in the heart of Washington, D.C., just a few blocks from the White House.
The move into Hellenic House is a big step into a bright future for the AHI.
As a permanent home for the AHI and its affiliates, Hellenic House represents
a renewed commitment that will take the AHI into the 21st century with the
same vigor that has sustained it throughout the past two decades.
Click here to join today.
American Hellenic Institute
Purpose
The American Hellenic Institute, Inc. (AHI) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit
tax-exempt business league. AHI and its affiliate organizations, the American
Hellenic Institute Public Affairs Committee (AHIPAC), the American Hellenic
Institute Foundation (AHIF), and the AHI Business Network, a division of
the AHI, are working together under one roof, to provide a joint program
for strengthening United States relations with Greece and Cyprus and within
the American Hellenic community.
Goals & Objectives
Through our new headquarters building, Hellenic House, AHI and its affiliates
pursue activities for the benefit of U.S. relations with Greece and Cyprus
and Hellenic culture. The following are the objectives of AHI:
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Organizing business conferences and providing information and contacts
to the business communities of the U. S., Greece and Cyprus through our
Hellenic House Business Center;
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Organizing legislative conferences;
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Strengthening and expanding the AHI Business Network; and
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Attracting and developing young, talented people to become our future
business and political leaders.
 BUSINESS
NETWORK
Purpose
The AHI Business Network is a division of AHI initiated in 1989 to reach
out to the business experience of Greek Americans and to put it to work helping
other Greek Americans. Its purpose is to share business information and contacts.
Its concept is people helping people by sharing experience, knowledge and
ideas. The Business Network is building a business and resource center at
Hellenic House.
Goals & Objectives
To provide our members with the capability of networking with Greek American
men and women.
MWhat kind of Greek Americans? Energetic, enthusiastic, motivated, bright and
ambitious—in other words, typical Greek Americans—entrepreneurs
and professionals eager not only to make new contacts, but ready to help one
another move up the ladder, tap into new markets, and share creative ideas.
AHI Business Network Activities
- Network luncheons & receptions throughout the country;
- Sponsoring specialized seminars;
- Providing the opportunity to make business contacts via the AHI Webnet;
and
- A-Z MEMBER DIRECTORY—Our annual directory indexed by profession
and geography.
 PUBLIC
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Purpose
AHIPAC, is a 501(c)(6) public policy association established in 1975 to
concentrate on lobbying. AHIPAC is the only American Hellenic organization
registered with the U.S. Congress under the Lobbying Act. It has initiated
legislation on the Aegean, Cyprus, the rule of law, conditions on aid to
Turkey, protection of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, reopening of the Halki
Theological School, and FYROM.
Goals & Objectives
AHIPAC supports:
- security of Greece's sovereign rights in the Aegean;
- freedom and sovereignty of Cyprus;
- conditions on all military and economic aid to Turkey and economic sanctions
against Turkey until Turkey removes its troops and colonists from Cyprus
and is in compliance with U.S. laws, the U.N. Charter, the NATO Treaty
and international law;
- the 7:10 ratio in U.S. military aid to Greece and Turkey, but urges a
1:1 ratio;
- protection of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Greek minority in Turkey;
- opposing the use of the Greek name of Macedonia by FYROM;
- protection of human rights in Albania;and
- promotes awareness of the Pontian Genocide by Turkey.
AHIPAC activities include:
- initiating legislation and organizing legislative conferences;
- sponsoring legislative conferences and seminars on U.S.-Greece-Cyprus
Relations and How To Lobby Congress;
- sponsoring congressional trips to Greece and Cyprus;
- testifying before Congressional committees;
- monitoring actions in the Congress;
- meetings and communications with members of Congress;
- monitoring the actions, meetings and communications with Executive Branch
officials; and
- hosting receptions for visitors from Greece and Cyprus.
 FOUNDATION
Purpose
The American Hellenic Institute Foundation (AHIF) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit
tax-exempt educational and research organization and is home to the first
full-fledged think-tank devoted exclusively to the study of the critical
issues confronting the Greek American community.
Goals & Objectives
To develop policies and practical programs that will advance the interests
of the Hellenic community and United States relations with Greece and Cyprus.
Patterned after the major think-tanks in Washington—the American Enterprise
Institute, the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation—AHIF
is working to shape public policy through a rigorous program of research, publications,
seminars, conferences and Hellenic House Lecture Series. AHIF maintains a library
and an information center.
Publications
AHIF will be the headquarters for an expanding publications program producing/distributing
a range of books, articles and periodicals on relevant issues. Current publications
include:
**Doing Business In Greece (1996) a two volume loose-leaf reference
service which provides legal and economic guidelines for business transactions
in Greece ;
**Handbook On United States Relations With Greece And Cyprus (1990) a
loose-leaf (updates are ongoing) service which provides analyses of relevant
issues;
**American Hellenic Who's Who, 1994-1995 (fifth edition);
**Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce "Cyprus and the Rule
of Law" by Eugene T. Rossides. [Volume 17 - Spring 1991 - Number 1]
**Denying Human Rights & Ethnic Identity: The Greeks of Turkey [Helsinki
Watch] March 1992
**The Rule of Law and Conditions on Foreign Aid to Turkey AHI Conference
Proceedings - 2 (January 28, 1989)
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