What Save Your Hood does

Save Your Hood is a 100% volunteer-driven, non-profit environmental movement headquartered in Athens, Greece, founded in November 2020 by Vassilis Sfakianopoulos. Operated under the legal entity 'The Extra Mile' (a Greek AMKE, or Civil Non-Profit Company), the organization runs four core programs: Neighborhood Initiatives (community cleanups, tree planting, and public-space repairs), Crisis Reactions / Wildlife Rescue Network (ΔΙ.Δ.Α.Ζ, a partnership with ANIMA for wildlife rescue during wildfires and floods), Experiential Education (free theatrical and interactive environmental curricula for students aged 4–17, delivered to 29 schools and 162 classes), and Empowering Companies (closed corporate cleanups, team-building, and SDG-aligned employee education).

The organization's underlying technology is intentionally minimal: no proprietary software, model, or hardware is described. Coordination runs through a bilingual website (saveyourhood.gr), a Scheduled Actions calendar, a dedicated Facebook group, Instagram, and per-municipality WhatsApp groups, with a Local Coordinator program providing decentralized leadership and a Family Membership tier for committed volunteers. Operating signals include 55,104 cumulative volunteer participations, 12.5 million liters of litter collected, 63,981 initiatives, 6,981 cleanups, 1,107 wild animals rescued, and geographic reach spanning 12+ countries.

Save Your Hood's revenue model is fundraising-only: donations, ethical corporate sponsorships, and partnerships reviewed by the 12-member Trash Knights Board, with an explicit refusal to accept funding from global polluters. All programs are free to participants and schools; corporate clients pay through sponsorship rather than per-seat pricing. Governance is sociocratic via the volunteer Trash Knights Board, and the organization holds no disclosed investors, paid staff, or subsidiaries. Recognition as an official Actor of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is its primary external credibility asset.

Name

Save Your Hood

Legal name

The Extra Mile

Website

https://saveyourhood.gr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Save Your Hood is a 100% volunteer, Greece-based non-profit (AMKE 'The Extra Mile') running environmental cleanups, wildlife rescue, school education, and corporate CSR programs across 12+ countries, funded by ethical donations and sponsorships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Volunteer Services

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Forestry & Reforestation (BPAGAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wildlife Rescue, Rehabilitation & Release (BPAGAIAC), Environmental Conservation & Sustainability Volunteering (EDAIAGAB), Sustainability Engagement, Training & Behavior Change Programs (On-site) (BPABALAK)

Keywords

• Volunteer environmental movement
• Community cleanup programs
• Wildlife rescue services
• Environmental education programs
• Corporate volunteer programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Athens

HQ country

Greece

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Donations and Sponsorships: Save Your Hood operates as a 100% volunteer non-profit organization (AMKE - Civil Non-Profit Company). It raises funds through donations, sponsorships, and partnerships with corporations seeking environmental impact programs. All funding decisions are governed by a strict code of ethics reviewed by the Trash Knights Board. The organization refuses funding from global polluters or companies conflicting with its environmental mission.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Save Your Hood is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit organization that organizes and executes environmental initiatives across Greece, Cyprus, and 12+ countries. Its core offerings include neighborhood cleanups and tree-planting actions, a Wildlife Rescue Network (ΔΙ.ΔΑ.Ζ) deployed during wildfires and floods in collaboration with the Hellenic Wildlife Care Association ANIMA, free experiential environmental education for students aged 4-17, and structured corporate environmental and team-building programs for companies.

Product overview

Save Your Hood is a non-profit volunteer movement platform focused on environmental protection and community empowerment across Greece and Cyprus. The organization operates a suite of interconnected programs including: Neighborhood Initiatives (local cleanup and tree-planting actions), Crisis Reactions/Wildlife Rescue Network (emergency wildlife rescue during disasters in partnership with ANIMA), Experiential Education (environmental education for students aged 4-17), Empowering Companies (corporate volunteer programs), Paths of Hope (awareness expeditions on burned lands), Scheduled Actions (volunteer coordination calendar), and Family Membership (exclusive member benefits). The platform functions primarily through community organizing via WhatsApp groups, Facebook, and Instagram, with no public API or AI/ML capabilities. Funding comes from ethical donations and corporate sponsorships aligned with the organization's environmental values.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 12.5 million litres of litter collected
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• ANIMA (Hellenic Wildlife Care Association)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSYH and ANIMA co-created the first national Wildlife Rescue Network (ΔΙ.Δ.Α.Ζ - Wildlife Rescue Network). ANIMA provides wildlife rehabilitation expertise for rescued animals, while SYH supplies trained volunteer rescue teams deployed during environmental crises such as wildfires. This is the foundational partnership enabling SYH's wildlife rescue mission.
• United Nations - Decade on Ecosystem RestorationflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerSave Your Hood is recognized as an official Actor of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a global initiative coordinated by UNEP and FAO to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. This designation recognizes SYH's contribution to environmental restoration.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights14 records

Emerging players

• Litterati: Data-driven litter cleanup platform using a mobile app to map and remove litter worldwide. Comparable focus on volunteer-driven cleanup but differentiated by its tech/data layer — useful as a benchmark for where SYH's consumer-grade tooling could evolve.
• Plastic Free Foundation: Organization behind Plastic Free July, a global movement mobilizing individuals and businesses to reduce single-use plastic. Comparable in mobilizing mass-participation behavior change and education, though more campaign-driven and less focused on physical cleanup operations.
• Plastic Bank: Social enterprise that stops ocean plastic by building ethical collection networks and recycling ecosystems in coastal communities. Overlapping mission around plastic waste collection and community-based environmental action, though operating via a plastic-credit exchange model rather than pure volunteer mobilization.

Direct peers

• Ocean Conservancy: International nonprofit running the International Coastal Cleanup, mobilizing millions of volunteers for ocean/waste cleanup and producing detailed impact data. Comparable in combining volunteer-led cleanup events, scientific data collection, and corporate partnerships for environmental impact.
• Keep America Beautiful: US-based nonprofit organizing community cleanups, recycling programs, and environmental education. Directly comparable in combining volunteer mobilization, corporate partnerships (sponsors), and school-based education — a more mature, scaled version of SYH's hybrid community/corporate model.
• Surfrider Foundation: Volunteer-based nonprofit organizing beach cleanups, water quality monitoring, and environmental education across chapters globally. Directly comparable mission and volunteer-activation model, particularly the beach/neighborhood cleanup emphasis and education-driven advocacy.
• Trash Hero: Volunteer-driven grassroots movement organizing community cleanups, originally in Thailand and now across multiple countries. Directly comparable in operating model — decentralized local chapters, WhatsApp/Facebook coordination, weekly cleanup events, and education programs — making it the closest international analog to SYH's community-led volunteer cleanup approach.
• ANIMA (Hellenic Wildlife Care Association): Greek wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release organization — SYH's core operational partner for the ΔΙ.ΔΑ.Ζ Wildlife Rescue Network. Comparable as a Greek nonprofit delivering environmental/wildlife impact and a key stakeholder in SYH's crisis response capability.

Broad incumbents

• WWF Greece: Greek affiliate of the World Wildlife Fund, operating as an established conservation NGO in the same geography with overlapping environmental mission (habitat protection, wildlife conservation). A broader incumbent that offers corporate, education, and policy programs SYH addresses more narrowly.
• Greenpeace Mediterranean: Regional Greenpeace affiliate covering Greece and broader Mediterranean, focused on environmental campaigns, climate, and ecosystem protection. Comparable mission space but operating at a much larger advocacy-driven scale rather than volunteer-led grassroots cleanups.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/groups/saveyourhood
• Instagramig.me/j/AbZ4LhOcYRLGlOAY
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/save-your-hood

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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