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Calling cutting-edge artists to the forefront of Armenia’s cultural future Creative Armenia and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) are now accepting applications for the 2021 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellowships. Open to filmmakers,...

AGBU announces that it waives the tuition fees for all the students who have attended its schools in Lebanon during the 2019-2020 academic year and who wish to continue their enrollment in the forthcoming year. This is an exceptional arrangement...

AGBU enters a new and heightened phase in its 24/7 emergency humanitarian relief operations, an all-out effort quickly mobilized within hours of the blast on behalf of distressed Armenians and the community at large. With the two million dollar...

In the aftermath of the devastating explosion in Beirut that took place less than a week ago, AGBU Central Board engaged in worldwide appeals for urgent contributions to accelerate relief for Lebanese Armenians with a designated relief fund.

With the campaign launch of the AGBU Global Humanitarian Emergency Relief Fund in mid April 2020, donors from around the world demonstrated in action the meaning behind the AGBU motto In Unity is Strength. In support of pandemic-related relief...

On June 22, the Armenian Red Cross Society (ARCS) and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) signed a memorandum of understanding on the joint implementation of the healthcare component of the Syrian Armenian Relief program. The program...

The Republic of Armenia has long been distinguished as a nexus for chess supremacy, with its national preoccupation with the game, large share of world champions, including Olympic winners and over 70 grandmasters (GMs), and, recently, the...

Continuing its long history for humanitarian relief wherever Armenians are imperiled, AGBU has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a massive effort to stem the growing food insecurities among the most vulnerable Armenians around the globe,...

When a full calendar of upcoming AGBU Young Professional (YP) events were forced to be cancelled or postponed indefinitely, it wasn’t long before the Zoom web video conferencing platform filled the vacuum as a virtual community center for the Young...

New York, NY: In celebration of International Women’s Day 2020 and the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the women’s right to vote in America, over 200 attendees from across the region, as well as from New England and California, spent the...