About Us
Our mission
We help organizations and purpose-driven entrepreneurs to grow social ventures and economic development programs that serve vulnerable or marginalized communities. Our final impact translates into decent jobs, income for the vulnerable, skilled people, strong, sustainable local organizations and prosperous communities.
Synerb is a nonprofit, nongovernmental and apolitical organization.
Our Values
Empathy
While our support to social business and community leaders is knowledge based in nature, we recognize entrepreneurs and managers as holistic human beings and strive to become their trusted advisor.
Education
Social businesses and enterprising nonprofits take longer than commercial businesses to mature and grow. It is a slow journey strewn with many difficulties, but we believe in education as a shaping force on this path. We’ve witnessed their transformation and we know that tailored learning experiences build the leaders of the field. We learn together.
Evidence based management
We base our support and help on data and facts. We embed a data-driven approach in our consulting practice and constantly challenge leaders and managers to understand what data means, from community and customer feedback to variations in the profit and loss, and social impact metrics.
Excellence
We commit to transparency and integrity, with proper planning, execution, and diving deep into details.
Environment
We design our programs to embody sustainable environmental practices and we encourage our partners to do the same.
Our Team
Sonia Oprean
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Zoltan Bereczki
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Mara Oltean
Co-founder & Finance Manager
Catalyzers.
Mentors, experts and volunteers providing support to our team and visionary organizations we work with:
Cristina Donoaică
Investment consultant
Daniela Florentina Gheorghe
Venture growth expert & social entrepreneur
Constantin Pătăşanu
Manufacturing expert, trainer and consultant
Simon David
Senior software engineer
Dragoș Gavrilescu
Design Thinking expert
Florin Ghindă
Founder of romaniapozitiva.ro, trainer, facilitator
Visionary volunteers.
Mentors providing support to our Visionary cohort (https://vizionar.synerb.org/en/) of young nonprofits:
Partners and supporters:
Where we work:
We work with a number of visionary nonprofits and social enterprises in Romania. We partner and learn from our local, regional and global like-minded organizations which share the joint vision of supporting social entrepreneurs or visionary nonprofits.