Origins
The Foundation
The story starts in 1999, with our founder James Tufenkian, an entrepreneur who spent over a decade using business to advance social justice around the world. When he turned his attention to Armenia, he saw that the hardships people faced ran deeper than market solutions could reach. The Tufenkian Foundation is his response. For 25 years, we have been working alongside Armenian communities — developing innovative programs that create tangible, lasting change where it is needed most.
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Focus Areas
Resettlement
Supporting the growth of struggling communities through sustainable resettlement with a focus on forcibly displaced people from Artsakh.
Development
Empowering communities through the development of the local economy and investment in community-centered infrastructure.
Resilience
Building the resilience of Armenia’s most vulnerable populations through human rights advocacy and capacity building.
In Your Words
If we decided to take these houses, it means it is necessary - it's something we need. We want to stay [in Svarants] and help this village thrive.
Aram Mirzoyan
We bring a future, and we bring hope. And there is nothing greater thing that humans can do for one another.
Annita Nerses
Our goal was to come in there and create a good model and then this money would have a chance to look at it and replicate it in different parts of the country.
James Tufenkian
The Foundation's guiding mission is to fill vacums. That is to initiate programs that no one else is willing or able to do.
Antranig Kasbarian
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