Grants Database

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Consolidation of the seven eco destinations and brand development for the country-wide network of ecotourism destinations.

The Extension Education Development Program aims to create the infrastructure inside select Romanian universities for providing educational and consultancy services to small and medium farmers and SMEs in agri-food sectors, including developing access to markets. The expected impact will be increased productivity and income for the small and medium farmers and agri-food businesses (with focus on SMEs).

This grant is an add-on to the core program to support the absorption and proper management of the European funds allotted to agricultural high schools in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).

This grant is an add-on to the core program to support the absorption and proper management of the European funds allotted to agricultural high schools in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).

General purpose grant.

Increase the capacity of local changemakers (selected promising civil society leaders) to act more strategically and be impact-oriented in solving society’s most pressing challenges.

Developing a relevant support system for civic education teachers, consisting of high quality lesson plans that explain difficult-to-teach civic education subjects, aiming at improving understanding of 7th grade students regarding key concepts of democracy and active citizenship

Supports the ecotourism development in Danube Delta by assisting local stakeholders to successfully use the public funds available for ecotourism related infrastructure and community development.

The program aims to promote science, and science-related careers, among children and young people, with the involvement of the Romanian academic diaspora.

Two-year postdoctoral fellowship in education, with a focus on civic education, to consolidate the University of Bucharest’s emerging nucleus of expertise on the management and analysis of large-scale assessment surveys.

The two-year Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators will provide 80 professors Babson College’s esteemed best practices and teaching methods. The program was designed to compliment the Professor Development program by supporting universities with greater numbers of professors exposed to pedagogical best practices and methods.

Contributes to the consolidation of the small farmers’ agricultural cooperative sector in Romania through representation, training, and networking activities.

Supporting the G3P event that recognizes successful advocacy campaigns developed by citizens and NGOs, as well as best practices of public authorities in consulting the citizens in community matters. 

Bridge loan (working capital).

Bridge loan (working capital).

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

The program aims to create the infrastructure inside select Romanian universities for providing educational and consultancy services to small and medium farmers and SMEs in agri-food sectors, including developing access to markets.

Pilot a model of teaching Romanian as a second language and contribute with policy recommendations to the development of language training for refugee children within the public education system, an essential pre-requisite for their integration in Romanian schools and of the integration of their parents in the society at large.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Needs assessment and planning phase for setting up a research and expertise unit with the Center for Democracy Studies (center affiliated with Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj) that will provide research on civil society and services for the professionalization of the sector.

Research the existing teaching practice in Mathematics in primary school and teachers’ needs assessment as a first step in developing a larger RAF intervention for improving the Mathematics performance of Romanian students.

Promotes and selects the Furbright-RAF scholars to gain U.S. university-based experience in developing and sustaining entrepreneurship education. In turn, upon returning to Romania, the participating professors would broaden the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Support Ashoka Fellow Eugen Vaida, founder of the Monumentum Association, to improve the “Ambulance for Monuments” intervention methodology by conducting an in-depth social impact evaluation.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Bridge loan for the project "Support for the Development of Local Action Groups (LAG) Producers"

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Reserve Fund Challenge

Support the University of Bucharest for building its capacity to deliver professional development training in teaching Romanian as a foreign language.

The purpose of the program is to support entrepreneurial university leaders by giving them practical insights that will help to foster growth and create value within their institutions.

The program aims to initiate research leading to a proposal to support agricultural education and outreach by Romanian agricultural universities/departments.

Embed elements of data science in Math teaching for grades 5-8.

Capacity building for community foundations to support their long-term strategic commitment for serving their communities and capacity building for FFCR to consolidate its role as a strategic catalyst for a stronger network of community foundations at national level.

Bridge loan for "Made in Bison Land" EU Project.

Create a national network of 20 participant universities while consolidating the national Innovation Labs pre-accelerator program around all five university centers already enrolled in the program. The program will continue the consolidation process initiated through the previous programs funded by RAF, seeking to become locally sustainable for future renditions.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Create a new instrument for funding smaller scale civic education programs, accompanied by capacity building. In the context of the war in Ukraine, the fund will focus on two main issues: combating disinformation and increasing the intercultural dialogue among youngsters for a smoother acceptance of refugees in the society.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Supports Asociația Techsoup become the leading provider in the professional development of Romanian Computer Science/Informatics Communication Technology (CS/ICT) teachers, with a functional growth model and funding to sustain scale.

Enhance the capacity of RAF partners (NGOs & Food Hubs) to communicate better (both internally and externally) to perform more efficiently in the scope of their mission.

Further support ecotourism development by catalyzing the revitalization of vacant spaces/latent assets into entrepreneurial establishments, within the network of ecotourism destinations.

Explores a model for introducing stronger focus on agricultural technology in the ongoing Agricultural High School Program, consisting of a summer camp on precision agriculture, as a short-term experience for students and teachers that will inform further development of the New Agri component of the program.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs. 

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.  

Initiate research leading to a proposal to support agricultural education and outreach by Romanian agricultural universities/departments.

Strengthen FDSC’s strategic role in supporting civil society actors and defending democratic values, with focus on three key strategic functions as national resource center: convener within the sector and key stakeholders, supporter & contributor to the development of civic infrastructure, and advocate for improved research infrastructure for civil society.

Research the key factors that influence the teaching practices of Civic Education in Romanian public schools and provide recommendations for future interventions and policy work.

Support the business consolidation process for three Food Hubs and assist them in designing a training system for their producers for developing a stronger community of suppliers.

Support the business consolidation process for three Food Hubs and assist them in designing a training system for their producers for developing a stronger community of suppliers

Support the business consolidation process for three Food Hubs and assist them in designing a training system for their producers for developing a stronger community of suppliers

Cash flow loan (working capital).

Improve Entrepreneurial education by developing impactful educational services, repositioning Universities as effective contributors to their local entrepreneurial ecosystems.

The program will help consolidate the management of the seven ecotourism destinations, through a tailored technical assistance and business incubation program, increasing their chances for sustainability.  

Quickly strengthen the eLiberare organization's capacity to be a first-line responder for the refugees arriving in Romania from Ukraine by assessing the risks of exploitation and human trafficking and developing strategic measures to decrease that risk in general.

Create a national network of 20 participant universities while consolidating the national Innovation Labs pre-accelerator program around all five university centers already enrolled in the program. The program will continue the consolidation process initiated through the previous programs funded by RAF, seeking to become locally sustainable for future renditions.

Create a national network of 20 participant universities while consolidating the national Innovation Labs pre-accelerator program around all five university centers: București, Cluj, Iași, Sibiu, and Timișoara.

Supporting the G3P event that recognizes successful advocacy campaigns developed by citizens and NGOs, as well as best practices of public authorities in consulting the citizens in community matters.  

Cultivate and promote community-oriented and solutions-focused journalism through good and responsible storytelling in the following three areas that are strategic for RAF: rural development, education, and civic engagement.

Support the development of Țara Hațegului ecodestination by allowing Asociația de Turism Retezat to own and manage its business/guesthouse that will generate funds for the association and ensure continuity of their destination management activity.  The guest house Casa Cânda is meant to become a best practice for the ecotourism hospitality in the area, inspiring the other small business owners in the community.

Loan for the acquisition of the Casa Cânda pension house.

Pilot aiming to blend professors and students from the Bucharest Polytechnic University (UPB) and the “Carol Davila” Bucharest University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMPB) to identify medical needs and seek possible technical solutions.

Planning and exploring activities for developing an agricultural consultancy system.

Reserve Fund Challenge.

Romanian Science Festival is an initiative that aims to popularize STEM subjects among school-age children and the community.

Support for the organization of the fifth edition of the Romanian Community Foundations Conference, an event coordinated by the Federation of Community Foundations and dedicated to community foundations and their relevant stakeholders.

Contribute to the private sector collective efforts to support the Government to vaccinate Romanian citizens through a smart and targeted communication and information strategy focused on public health, solidarity and the rebuilding of trust.

Build up the financial sustainability of the organization by constructing a database with 1,000 debate alumni and run a fundraising campaign targeting alumni.

The program aims to embed elements of data science in Math teaching for grades 5-8.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.  

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.  

Consolidating the national Innovation Labs pre-accelerator program while simultaneously building a supportive alumni network. Enhancing the Iași Innovation Labs community and creating a sustainable model for future renditions.

Improving the understanding of students regarding the role of public institutions and the relationship between citizens and public authorities by consolidating the Project Citizen model in civic education classes.

Promotes and selects the Furbright-RAF scholars.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.  

Further strengthen FDSC in its role to facilitate cooperation within and outside the civil society sector, and to establish a starting point for possible further investments in developing the research infrastructure for civil society.

Consolidate the national Innovation Labs pre-accelerator program in all five university centers while simultaneously building a supportive alumni network.

Supporting Code for Romania to further develop its capacity and increase its sustainability.

The program aims to strengthen FFCR’s capacity to represent and support all of its members in their efforts to generate social change.

Accelerate the development of ecotourism in Danube Delta, as a tool for local economic development, by creating an ecotourism product that will facilitate tourists’ access to more areas in the Delta.

Strengthening the organizational/institutional capacity of the destination’s management, and improving communication and promotion of the seven destinations.

Supporting the G3P event that recognizes successful advocacy campaigns developed by citizens and NGOs, as well as best practices of public authorities in consulting the citizens in community matters.  

Reserve Fund Challenge.

Providing access for children from rural areas and small towns to learning basic coding, through a service hosted by public libraries.

Reserve Fund Challenge

Bridge loan.

Provides directed support to university professors through small grants and modules on entrepreneurship and design thinking.

Contribute to the development of the ecotourism destinations by building the English language skills of the young by improving the quality of English teaching in schools and the offer of local libraries (resources and activities) for learning English. In this phase, the model of teachers training, designed and tested in the previous phase, will become less dependent on British Council, with mobilization of local stakeholders and better integration in the public system.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Reserve Fund Challenge

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Supporting agricultural high schools in adopting modern teaching in specialized areas and attracting more and better prepared students by scaling-up of the models developed in the previous phase through dissemination and training for teachers.

Co-fund Romania's participation in the International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023 (ICILS).

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Supporting agricultural high schools in adopting modern teaching in specialized areas and attracting more and better prepared students. Improve the understanding of agricultural education needs among agribusinesses and public authorities through communication.

Advocate public authorities to adopt and implement policies better adapted to the real needs of agricultural high schools.

Support agricultural high school in offering quality entrepreneurial training, thus improving students’ entrepreneurial skills and raising their chances to become future viable farmers.

Reserve Fund Challenge

The program aims to improve scientific literacy of Romanian students, by changing the way Physics and other sciences are taught in schools, moving from a formal and abstract teaching to more engaging approaches.

Further strengthen and consolidate the community foundations’ capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Help the organization continue its growth and expansion in new territories, despite the forthcoming economic crisis, by providing support for the core program and for organizational restructuring.

Test the usability of a well curated selection of online educational contents for Mathematics from Khan Academy, and to build a case study for a larger intervention, with a more complex theory of change, including teacher training, and a significantly larger volume of educational contents.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Support the community foundations to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Develop the capacity of some of RAF's grantees to better navigate the current crisis and, in the case of Food Hubs, to maximize the growth of business in a sustainable manner.

Further support Fundația Ashoka to consolidate its position as convener of expertise, ecosystem builder and supporter of changemakers in Romania.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Improve the communication of the Agricultural School Program to increase the number of students choosing agricultural high schools and to improve the reputation of agricultural education as a route to become farmer

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Reserve Fund Challenge

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Developing a platform dedicated to funders all across Romania in order to increase the transparency levels on spending in the non-profit sector and how it correlates with impact, sustainability and systemic change.

Consolidate the community foundation’ capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Consolidate the community foundation’ capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Strengthen ARC to be able to continue advancing philanthropy in Romania, helping channel people’s resources and generosity to build stronger communities.

Supporting eight agricultural high schools to create real-life internship models and to promote agricultural opportunities in the community in order to attract more and more motivated students.

Strengthen FDSC to be able to respond to the increasing needs of the NGO sector as a result of the pandemic.

Consolidating the national Innovation Labs pre-accelerator program while simultaneously building a supportive alumni network. Enhancing the Iași Innovation Labs community and creating a sustainable model for future renditions.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in education, with a focus on STEM education and policy, to consolidate the University of Bucharest's emerging nucleus of expertise.

Development of a 5-year coherent strategy.

Assist small farmers by including their voice in policy development and securing relevant funding opportunities while providing necessary capacity development education for future cooperative professionalization.

Refine a sustainable intervention model for building media literacy competencies for high school students and prepare for its scale up.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Co-fund the participation of Romania in the International Civic and Citizenship Education Survey 2022.

Developing a platform dedicated to funders all across Romania in order to increase the transparency levels on spending in the non-profit sector and how it correlates with impact, sustainability and systemic change.

Continue the transfer of core technical knowledge from Ashoka’s global network in order to identify and support exceptional local social entrepreneurs to scale their social impact.

Consolidate the community foundation’s capacity to play a central leadership role in local philanthropy by mobilizing local resources and empowering the local actors to address the community needs.

Reserve Fund Challenge

Cash flow loan (working capital).

Consolidate the seven ecotourism destinations and the development of the country-wide network of ecotourism destinations.

Reserve Fund Challenge

TechSoup will implement and adjust identified components to reach the desired level of effectiveness, scalability and sustainability to create relevant effects on both teachers and students.

The program aims to strengthen FFCR’s capacity to represent and support all of its members in their efforts to generate social change.

Improve the sustainability of Green Impact Program.

The second edition of Innoteque conference focused on the ways in which Romania can develop a strong innovation ecosystem, leveraging the experiences from more advanced ecosystems (US, Israel, Austria, Netherlands, France,) and sharing approaches to foster innovation

Accelerate the development of the Galantom fundraising platform.

Support for business model reengineering.

Facilitating and synergy growth among the community foundations network, for the development of the Științescu Fund, aiming to to create a learning environment, with a common space to share resources, good practices and lessons learned, that will increase community foundations’ capacity to be more efficient and effective in running, documenting and communicating the process and results of the Științescu Fund to various stakeholders.

Supporting the G3P event that recognizes successful advocacy campaigns developed by citizens and NGOs, as well as best practices of public authorities in consulting the citizens in community matters.

Consolidating the national Innovation Labs pre-accelerator program while simultaneously building a supportive alumni network. Enhancing the Timișoara Innovation Labs community and creating a sustainable model for future renditions.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of RAF program partners, improve the visibility of the impact achieved by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Capacity building for Innovation Labs local partners for long-term sustainability.

Support for methodological design, the first phase of an impact study of the Fizica altfel program.

To work with 17 previously established and equipped university hubs in developing entrepreneurial education services, providing training and facilitation for the university hubs to offer education activities in cooperation with the local business community.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Support the organizational development of Asociația Code for Romania, in view of increasing its sustainability and maintaining and scaling its successful activities.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Using solutions journalism to help society multiply success stories, and recover faster from the economic, psychological, and personal crises caused by the pandemic.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Strengthening the capacity of the NGO sector in Romania to comply with GDPR and AML legislation

Cash-flow loan for EU-funded project.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Cash-flow loan for EU-funded project.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

EFOR will analyze the GDPR and AMP legislation and its impact on the NGO sector in Romania, in view of identifying tools to increase the capacity of the sector to better cope with the exiting and new legal requirements.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Stimulate the use of documentary films on human rights as a learning aid for civic education during classes and extracurricular activities.

Support for setting up new community foundations and for the revision of the strategic plans of the existing ones.

Organizational support.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

The aim of this program is to showcase the current level of investment readiness among the Romanian social enterprises sector that would allow stakeholders to make informed and relevant strategic decisions and social investments in supporting the sector.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Expand the use of debate as an educational tool in different formats (curricular, trans-curricular and extra-curricular) to build and consolidate students’ civic attitudes and critical thinking abilities.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Improve the capacity of agricultural schools by expanding the teams of teachers from the six schools part of the previous grants and train teachers from the new lot. Also, schools will receive regular information about funding opportunities (eligibility, priorities etc.) and will have access to in-depth consultancy on demand.

The program aims to strengthen the community foundation’s capacity to act as a reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that plays a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

The Federation of Community Foundations in Romania acts as facilitator and synergy developer within the network of community foundations, for the development of the Științescu Fund. The program aims to create a learning environment, with a common space to share resources, good practices and lessons learned, that will increase community foundations’ capacity to be more efficient and effective in running, documenting and communicating the process and results of the Științescu Fund to various stakeholders.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Providing access for children from rural areas and small towns to learning basic coding, through a service hosted by public libraries.

Supporting the ninth annual G3P event that recognizes successful advocacy campaigns developed by citizens and NGOs, as well as best practices of public authorities in consulting the citizens in community matters.

Encourage students from all educational backgrounds to learn and develop 21st century skills that would help them in their future careers by promoting “learning by doing“ Robotics.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

To transform agricultural schools into an effective route for the professionalization of future small and medium farmers. Third phase of the program started with a design phase and piloted for two years

To transform agricultural schools into an effective route for the professionalization of future small and medium farmers. Third phase of the program started with a design phase and piloted for two years.

Awareness campaign. Increase the capacity of RAF program partners and the visibility of the impact achieved by partners through RAF programs. Further impart and validate the value of program partner products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity and the visibility of the impact achieved by IIT through RAF programs. Further impart and validate the value of IIT products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity  and the visibility of the impact achieved by of CEED through RAF programs. Further impart and validate the value of CEED products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Communication Campaign: ”Proud to Be a Farmer!” Increase the capacity of RAF program partners and the visibility of the impact achieved. Further impart and validate the value of program partner products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Creating a CodeKids brand for coding activities. Increase the capacity of RAF program partners and the visibility of the impact achieved by partners through RAF programs. Further impart and validate the value of program partner products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the communication capacity of CJI and the visibility of the impact achieved. Re-branding and reposistioning. Further impart and validate the value of CJI products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Capacity building and aligning communication with the organization's new strategy.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Increase the capacity and the visibility of the impact achieved by ARDOR through RAF programs. Further impart and validate the value of ARDOR products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Increase the capacity of CRPE and the visibility of the impact achieved  through RAF programs. Further impart and validate the value of CRPE programs and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

Increase the capacity and the visibility of the impact achieved by Civitas through RAF programs. Further impart and validate the value of Civitas products and learnings by successfully communicating through a wide variety of mediums to varied stakeholders.

Improve the capacity of eight agricultural schools to provide hands-on entrepreneurial education for agribusiness and career counselling.

Research and advocacy for positioning agricultural high-schools as hubs.

The program aims to make computer science education in public schools more relevant for students (e.g. using learning-by-doing methods; developing skills such as creativity, cooperation etc.; more connected with the IT industry).

Empower teachers from six schools to consolidate their practice, become inspirational models and advocates on improving students’ literacy and thus creating better premises for further development of the initiative.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

To pilot the development of a Food Hub to act as sustainable intermediaries that provide access to market for small and medium sized farmers in the Ialomița, Vâlcea, Dolj, and Vaslui counties.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Contribute to the development of the ecotourism destinations by building the English language skills of the young. The program aims to improve the quality of English teaching in schools and the offer of local libraries (resources and activities) for learning English.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

To pilot the development of a Food Hub to act as sustainable intermediaries that provide access to market for small and medium sized farmers in the Iași region.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

To pilot the development of a Food Hub to act as sustainable intermediaries that provide access to market for small and medium sized farmers in the Vatra Dornei region.

Pilot for the development of a Food Hub to act as sustainable intermediaries that provide access to market for small and medium sized farmers in the Odorheiu Secuiesc region.

Pilot for the development of a Food Hub to act as sustainable intermediaries that provide access to market for small and medium sized farmers in the Cluj region.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Support Teach for Romania in its consolidation phase so as to be able to advance its mission in Romania in the long-run, focusing on fundraising and communication strategy for sustaining growth, development of the alumni community, and partial funding for two new cohorts of teachers.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Working capital to support FDSC's cash flow.

Improve scientific literacy of Romanian students, by changing the way Physics and other sciences are taught in schools, moving from a formal and abstract teaching to more engaging approaches (e.g. inquiry-based learning).

Encourage students from all educational backgrounds to learn and develop 21st century skills that would help them in their future careers by promoting “learning by doing“ Robotics.

Strengthen the CFs’ capacity in view of becoming reliable and sustainable local grant-making organizations that play a central leadership role in mobilizing local resources to address the local community needs.

Improve the understanding of students regarding the role of public institutions and the relationship between citizens and public authorities by increasing the effectiveness and usage of Project Citizen model in civic education classes.

Improve the communication capacities and the performance in the public relations field for RAF partner NGOs.

Supporting the G3P event that recognizes successful advocacy campaigns developed by citizens and NGOs, as well as best practices of public authorities in consulting the citizens in community matters.

Pilot the development of five Food Hubs to  provide access to market for small and medium-sized farmers in Romania.

Further support the extension of cooperatives in Romania by assisting more initiative groups to effectively access public funds for new associative structures based on the methodology piloted with RAF funding.

Design and test a model for improving the access of children from rural areas and small towns to learning basic coding, hosted by public libraries.

Endow young adults with the critical thinking that would allow them to appreciate and respect the role of media in a democratic society, distinguish information from propaganda, and interact with social media in a mindful way.

The Federation of Community Foundations in Romania acts as facilitator and synergy developer within the network of community foundations, for the development of the Științescu Fund. The program aims to create a learning environment, with a common space to share resources, good practices and lessons learned, that will increase community foundations’ capacity to be more efficient and effective in running, documenting and communicating the process and results of the Științescu Fund to various stakeholders.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

The Innovation Labs program continues in the four universities (București, Cluj, Sibiu, Timișoara) and it expands to Iași.  

Bridge loan (working capital) that will provide Teach for Romania the necessary capital to cover the initial payments/costs until the reimbursement requests are paid by the EACEA.

The program will measure the impact of the pilot cooperative development on their communities and will monitor the evolution of the National Development Plan, which is expected to contribute to the development of new cooperatives.

Design and testing phase for a program that aims to combine online and offline resources for civic education in schools in a collaborative effort with NGOs active in civic education and public institutions with a key role in functioning democracies.

Exposing the participants to the fundamentals of the American and Israeli startup ecosystems and leveraging successful European approaches.

Needs assessment for designing an intervention for developing the English language skills of the youth in eco-tourism destinations.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Setting up 30 youth clubs in eco-tourism destinations that will provide learning opportunities for responsible entrepreneurship and community participation of youth.

The program will provide 24 Romanian professors from technical universities around the country with the opportunity to gain U.S. university-based experience in developing and sustaining entrepreneurship education. In turn, upon returning to Romania, the participating professors would broaden the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

The program aims to introduce and replicate the Ashoka Innovators for the Public model in Romania, to identify and support entrepreneurial individuals with innovative solutions for society’s systemic problems.

The program aims to attract, select and develop talented young people to teach for two-years in Romania’s most challenging schools and support them to become change agents in the Romanian education.

The program aims to consolidate CIVITAS’ governance mechanism and processes in an effort to strengthen their leadership role within the rural development sector.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Pilot for a multi-annual program for computer science teachers to adopt project-based teaching strategies for their class and to create active-learning environments in their schools.

The program supports Centrul de Evaluare și Analize Educaționale in building their fund-raising capacity.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

The program provided RAF and its partners a public platform to accentuate their work and policy developments in agriculture and ecotourism.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

The program facilitated the exchange of know-how between Romanian and U.S. stakeholders in STEM education.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Provide support to design and test a school-level educational model to develop students’ literacy skills and make policy recommendations for school, county and central decision-makers.

Provide 18 Romanian professors from technical universities around the country with the opportunity to gain U.S. university-based experience in developing and sustaining entrepreneurship education. In turn, upon returning to Romania, the participating professors would broaden the entrepreneurial ecosystem.  

The program will create a Romanian model for the application of a University entrepreneurial capacity assessment tool and provide 5 universities with accredited entrepreneurship curricula.

Continuing the policy research and advocacy efforts for the development of ecotourism destinations in the seven pilot regions in Romania.

Communication and marketing support for the Destination Management Units in seven destination from the Development of Ecotourism Destinations program.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

Mortgage for headquarters acquisition.

The program facilitated the exchange of know-how between Romanian and U.S. stakeholders in STEM education.

Support the Community Foundations to setup local funds on STEM education in order to encourage small scale initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for students from local communities.

Supporting SSMR to build the expertise and capacity to engage meaningfully in the curriculum reform process for pre-university education.  

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community. 

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community. 

Support the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.  

Doubling the annual number of Romanian leaders eligible to participate in the Marshall Memorial Fellowship program, organized by the GMF in the U.S.A. and Europe.

Supporting eight agricultural schools to improve their ability to attract resources and to plan their development more strategically to make education more relevant to the local economy.

Assess the impact of Project Citizen at school level and develop a strategic plan for consolidating the program, in consultations with key stakeholders at local and national levels.

Supporting DoR to document and publish in-depth articles about the Romanian education system.

Improve the communication capacities and the performance in the public relation field for several NGOs financed by RAF.

Expand the Innovation Labs program from Bucharest to three other technical universities across the country.  

Documenting the Agricultural High Schools program and supporting in developing the intervention.

Fostering Romanian technology-based entrepreneurship and commercialization by leveraging U.S. commercialization expertise and global networks.  

Supporting eight agricultural schools to improve their ability to attract resources and to plan their development more strategically to make education more relevant to the local economy.

Supporting eight agricultural schools to improve their ability to attract resources and to plan their development more strategically to make education more relevant to the local economy.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors. 

The program aims to attract, select and develop talented young people to teach for two-years in Romania’s most challenging schools and support them to become change agents in the Romanian education.  

Continuing the policy research and advocacy efforts for the development of ecotourism destinations in the seven pilot regions in Romania.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors. 

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors. 

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Stimulate the use of documentary films on human rights as a learning aid for civic education during classes and extracurricular activities.  

Support the consolidation of a permanent national funding program dedicated to the sustainable growth of grassroots organizations active in civic engagement.

Consolidating the use of inquiry based learning methods in Physics by supporting communities of practice; consolidating the expertise in the field among Physics teachers and experts; advocating for policy changes in how Physics is taught.  

Provide support to design and test a school-level educational model to develop students’ literacy skills and make policy recommendations for school, county and central decision-makers.

Cash-flow loan for EU-funded project.

Cash-flow loan for EU-funded project.

Expand the use of debate as an educational tool in different formats (curricular, trans-curricular and extra-curricular) to build and consolidate students’ civic attitudes and critical thinking abilities.

Support the establishment and development of Community Foundations in Romania by providing initial capital.

Field research and planning grant for an initiative aiming s to improve the capacity of agricultural education to offer relevant education for future small farmers. 

Field research and planning grant for an initiative aiming s to improve the capacity of agricultural education to offer relevant education for future small farmers.  

Field research and planning grant for an initiative aiming s to improve the capacity of agricultural education to offer relevant education for future small farmers.  

Field research and planning grant for an initiative aiming s to improve the capacity of agricultural education to offer relevant education for future small farmers.  

Field research and planning grant for an initiative aiming s to improve the capacity of agricultural education to offer relevant education for future small farmers.  

Support the setup of local funds on STEM education in order to encourage small scale initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for K12 students from the local community.  

Pilot the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community. 

Pilot the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community. 

Pilot the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Pilot the setup of a local funding mechanism to encourage small scale educational initiatives that will boost the attractiveness of sciences for children from local community.

Documenting the journey of the first generation of Teach for Romania teachers.

A mini-documentary about philanthropy and community foundations’ efforts to find solutions to local issues.  

The mini-documentary tells the success story of the Lunca Somesului Mic cooperative, one of the cooperatives from the Rural Entrepreneurship Program.  

A mini-documentary about the revival of the Meziad cave (part of the Green Entrepreneurship Program) and the positive impact it had on the local community.  

The grant allowed for the production of a mini-documentary about passionate teachers who use inquiry-based learning to teach physics.  

Two journalists documented the Teach for Romania program and interviewed the first generation of teachers trained at the Leadership Summer Academy.  

Two journalists documented a success story of a young entrepreneur who benefited from the entrepreneurial education delivered by Junior Achievement Romania.  

Two journalists documented the IMPACT program, showcasing the efforts, the achievements and the lessons learned by FNO and beneficiaries.  

Advocating the reform of physics curriculum and teaching methods by promoting inquiry-based learning.

Documentarea dezvoltării cooperativelor pilot, evaluarea intervenției, cercetarea politicilor publice și diseminarea rezultatelor.

Accelerating the establishment of ecotourism destinations and consolidation of a country-wide ecotourism network that will make a major contribution to the development of the Romanian ecotourism.  

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver of local economic development.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors. 

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Matching the funds raised by the Community Foundations from individual donors, thus motivating the organizations to take advantage of underused potential finances and consolidating a supportive base of local donors.  

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver of local economic development.

Providing training for new organizations to further develop associative structures.

The program aims to attract, select and develop talented young people to teach for two-years in Romania’s most challenging schools and support them to become change agents in the Romanian education.

The program aimed to instill in youth the understanding and adherence to democratic values through well-argued debate, as well as the exercise of tolerant and open attitude towards social, ethnic, gender differences. It supported “Tinerii Dezbat”, the fifth edition of a national debate tournament as an extracurricular activity in Romanian high-schools and explored how debate could be use as a teaching method in schools.  

Provide support to design and test a school-level educational model to develop students’ literacy skills and make policy recommendations for school, county and central decision-makers.

Supporting an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting a research project aimed at manufacturing “Plano and Single Vision Reading” complete glasses using a 3-D printing process that eliminates various optical variabilities caused by existing manufacturing processes”.  

The grant supported an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting the research project “Method and Tools for In Situ High-Pressure Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/Imaging”.  

Supporting an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting a research project focusing on a new magnetic module for waste water treatment.  

Supporting an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting a research project (PollutionTrack) focusing on a a complete commercial solution for personal air quality monitoring and tracking (indoor and outdoor).  

Supporting an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting a research project focusing on a process for one-step production of two different high quality corn flours by non-expensive screening and eco-friendly chemical separation. 

Supporting an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting a research project to experimentally demonstrate a new concept of reflective optical modulator, whose reflectance can be reversibly switched between a low and a high value by varying the temperature of a thin gallium layer across its melting point.  

Supporting an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting the research project “Rapid detection of metal particles using giant magnetoresistive (GMR) eddy current sensors”.  

Supporting an ARTIE Fellows team in conducting a research project for developing “LVCSRROM”– Noise-robust, domain-adaptable, large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for the Romanian language.

Promoting and advocating the reform of physics curriculum and teaching methods using an inquiry-based learning.  

Fostering Romanian technology-based entrepreneurship and commercialization by leveraging U.S. commercialization expertise and global networks. 

Fostering Romanian technology-based entrepreneurship and commercialization by leveraging U.S. commercialization expertise and global networks.  

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver of local economic development.

Document the development of pilot cooperatives, assessment of intervention, policy research and dissemination of results.  

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver of local economic development.

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver of local economic development  

Pilot grant for a new initiative that aims to increase the awareness and knowledge on literacy issues among teachers.  

Support a sustainable expansion of community-service learning program (Impact Clubs) and strengthen the capacity of Fundatia Noi Orizonturi.  

Cash-flow loan for EU-funded project.

Cash-flow loan for EU-funded project.

Finalize the piloting and testing the effectiveness of a new teaching approach using inquiry-based learning for Physics teachers. Training teachers in eight counties to use the new methods.  

Building a safe, efficient and easy-to-use donation mechanism to stimulate philantrophy in Romania. The program is implemented in partnership with major banks and mobile telecom operators.  

Training and advisory services to build capacity at the level of small and semi-subsistence farmers to enhance their access to capital for growing their farms. 

Document the development of pilot cooperatives, assessment of intervention, policy research and dissemination of results.  

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver for local economic development.

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver for local economic development.

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver for local economic development.

Facilitate the formation of rural farmers’ associations/cooperatives to pilot the associative model as a driver for local economic development.

Working with School Administration Councils to asses the needs and provide training for Councils’ members and teachers in 24 schools to encourage and support decentralization.  

Developed a full package of tools to educate and assess the entrepreneurial skills and competencies of high-school students, with a special focus on technological and professional schools.  

Student loans guarantee

Following the disruption of the scholarship programs funded by the Patriciu Foundation, RAF decided to step in and offer financial support to the scholarship recipients, so they wouldn’t have to interrupt their studies before the end of the academic year. RAF offered emergency grants to the 79 Romanian students abroad, to finance the second semester of the 2012 academic year.  

Mortgage for headquarters acquisition. 

Cash-flow loan for EU-funded project.

Education Challenge is a competitive call for ideas in education that can be developed into full projects with relatively small costs, with support for business sector. The idea behind it is to find, profile and accelerate innovative projects in education by connecting the grass-root initiatives with the power of technology.  

Piloting, testing and measuring the effectiveness of the new inquiry-based-learning approach proposed by the Methodological Guide for Teaching Science and Physics produced by Societatea Academică din România in partnership with Societatea Română de Fizică. 

Raising awareness among the local business communities at national level in order to collect funds to sustain in-school educational programs on economics, finance, entrepreneurship and employability as part of the regular classes.  

Providing a methodological guide for teachers in Physics and Sciences using inquiry-based learning.

Improving teachers’ professional development to support the reform in teaching mathematics.

Support NGOs to build and develop social enterprises as a mean to create economic opportunities and employment for marginalized communities.  

Building a tailor-made program to support the development of green enterprises in rural areas: training, consulting, coaching and personalized techical assistance. The grant covered the know-how component in the program.  

Supporting the development of IMPACT youth clubs in small towns and rural areas. IMPACT Clubs, using community-service learning, encourage an entrepreneurial way of thinking and behaving, grassroots community development and volunteerism.  

Training over 800 teachers with knowledge, methodologies and tools to provide career guidance and counseling for their students from small towns and rural areas in eight counties of Moldova region. 20,000 students aged 13 to 15 acquired skills and abilities for a more effective management of their future career and successful integration into the labor market.  

Supported the growth stage of Motivation Romania Social Enterprise by helping them improve their business model to become bankable in the medium term.  

Cash-flow loan for the social enterprise.

Developing small towns and rural communities by supporting the creation of sustainable social enterprises based on local natural resources. The program provided a mix of financial and technical resources.  

Supporting youth from 25 schools from small urban communities to strengthen their leadership abilities, learning about communication, teamwork, negotiation and dispute resolution.  

Providing entrepreneurial education for students from small communities in a hands-on, learning-by-doing approach, practicing how to set up and run their own company, raise capital, assess market opportunities and finance a product or service. 

Develop social enterprises using a venture-capital approach. NESsT coached the teams and invested in sustainable business ideas from selected nonprofits.

Build the community foundations’ capacity to become active centers of local philanthropy.

Teaching business/entrepreneurial courses to more than 1,000 teenagers in 35 schools in small and/or underdeveloped communities.

Foster entrepreneurial growth at national level by preparing educators to teach with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Babson Entrepreneurial Leadership Bootcamp aims to help create a professional network of university management leaders who will be better prepared to operate the changes necessary to provide future students with greater openness to the economic and social environment of the future.

The program supports universities, offering their leaders, as well as professors, practical perspectives that contribute to stimulating the entrepreneurial ecosystem within the institutions they lead.