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34 Annual Leadership 100 Conference
Nick Katsoris, Founder, President & Executive Director,
The Loukoumi Make a Difference Foundation,
to Address Forum on Thursday, February 20
In 2003, New
York attorney
Nick Katsoris
was inspired to
write a
children’s book
about a fluffy
little lamb,
named after
the iconic
candy,
"Loukoumi",
that just wants
to make the
world a better
place. After the
New York Times wrote an article about the selfpublished book, “Loukoumi” hit number 4 on the
Children’s Book bestseller list. There are now nine books
in the series, including "Loukoumi's Good Deeds"
narrated by Jennifer Aniston, and through the book
Katsoris began engaging children in good deed projects.
difference for animal and homeless shelters, nursing
homes, the environment, through sports and the arts,
and other causes of interest to them. In their own voices,
these children are changing the world, one good deed at
a time. The result is that these children are also building
self-esteem, improving their mental health, finding their
purpose and overall happiness.
In 2014, Katsoris’s work earned him a National Make A
Difference Award from the Points of Light organization
and USA Weekend Magazine. Following the awards
ceremony, which was broadcast on the TODAY Show,
Nick was inspired to start The Loukoumi Make A
Difference Foundation, a non-profit organization that
now unites over 150,000 children in 30 countries
worldwide to make a
difference for causes
they are passionate
about.
In March 2023, Katsoris became the Executive Director
of the Foundation, where he now brings his Good Deed
Curriculum to over 300 schools worldwide, through in
person good deed delegations to schools around the
world, and virtual programming with a Good Deed of
the Month Zoom program and an International Good
Deed Council where students collaborate on global good
deed projects including students at schools in Greece,
India, Northern Ireland and the UK, Italy, Germany,
Ecuador, Tanzania, Uganda, Spain, Honduras, Puerto
Rico, across the United States and Newfoundland
Canada.
This Loukoumi
Good Deed
movement has
children making a
Through the Foundation, Katsoris has also established
and sponsors The Loukoumi Foundation Treatment
Room at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a
teaching kitchen for the homeless at the Floating
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