The Ashoka
Fellowship
Ashoka Organization Structure
Ashoka Global
Ashoka Romania
Paul Radu
Dorica Dan
Florin Stoicin
Ioana Bauer
Elena Calistru
Carmen Gheorghe
Ashoka's Mission
Ashoka identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker world."
The Ashoka branch in Romania was established in 2017 and has since elected six Fellows whose organizations are fighting a diverse range of social issues. Ashoka Romania provides support to these six Fellows as well as Ashoka globally.
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Paul Radu
The OCCRP investigates organized crime and corruption affecting Romania and its neighboring countries in order to expose underground networks and nefarious connections between businessmen, politicians, and criminal organizations. The organization provides a range of resources for journalists to use, including a database of over one billion records for journalists to search and cross reference information while reporting. 
Kogayon Association
Florin Stoican
The Kogayon Association, roughly translated as ‘sacred mountain,’ has worked to increase Romanian nature conservationism and promote ecotourism by targeting citizens, businesses, and leaders alike to encourage the creation and saving of protected areas. Kogayon’s successful history includes transforming both Buila VânturariÈ›a Park and VăcăreÅŸti Park into Natural Parks.
eLiberare
Ioana Bauer
eLiberare focuses on the issue of human trafficking, as Romania is one of the main sources, transits, and destinations for human trafficking victims in Europe. In the past, this designation as a top trafficking country has stemmed from a lack of anti-trafficking initiatives and victim-assistance programs. To counter this, eLiberare’s goal is to “empower people to prevent human trafficking in their own communities” through awareness education, lobbying and advocacy, prevention training, and restoration assistance.
Nowegian-Romanian (NoRo) Center for Rare Diseases
Dorica Dan
NoRo is a non-governmental organization that serves as a care center for patients fighting rare diseases and their families. Dorica advocates for the 30 million individuals suffering from rare diseases throughout Europe by connecting stakeholders in the field to each other and developing blueprints for a new rare disease care system. The NoRo Center in Romania is a patient-run resource center for rare diseases in Europe.  
Funky Citizens
Elena Calistru
Funky Citizens works to increase public participation in the Romanian government by focusing on civic engagement and anti-corruption. Through their use of social media, accessible education, and “artivism” (art activism), this nonprofit organization seeks to engage younger individuals in politics and the fight against government corruption. In addition, Funky Citizens is also heavily involved in fact-checking and monitoring Romanian government spending. 
E-Romnja
Carmen Gheorge
E-Romnja works to bring the issues that Roma women face to the forefront of public policies. Going back generations, negative images of the Roma population have circulated in media, art, and literature, heavily impacting the lives of Roma women by perpetuating stereotypes.  E-Romnja advocates for the Roma women population, working to publicly address the problems they face, as this affects their role in society and assists in improving their social standing.