We want to change the world. We start by getting involved. · Susțin
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WHO WE ARE

We want to change the world.
We start by getting involved.

We are a non-profit organisation that puts creativity to work for culture, education and communities. We build our own initiatives and collaborate with people and organisations who believe in change.

THE SUSȚIN STORY

From supporting other causes,
to projects we carry end to end.

Susțin began from the wish to put creativity and management experience at the service of other NGOs. We built campaigns, fundraising mechanisms and projects that helped their causes reach more people.

Working closely with those causes, we also saw opportunities we wanted to take on from beginning to end. That is how we started developing our own projects: with the freedom to test ideas, to give them time to grow, and with responsibility for what they leave behind.

Today that energy shows in a cinema brought back into the life of the city, in free stories, in meetings with children and in a community of volunteers. We continue to work alongside other organisations, and creative experience remains one of the resources we build with.

We want to change the world by making more good things possible. Project by project, we create places, experiences and relationships that help people trust more in what they can do together.

MISSION

Culture and education,
within reach of more people.

We make culture and education more accessible and create contexts where people can learn, contribute and build together.

VISION

Culture and involvement,
part of everyone's life.

A world where access to culture, learning and participation is part of everyday life. Where good ideas have the people and the resources they need to change things.

THE PEOPLE OF SUSȚIN

Different experiences.
One shared direction.

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The founders of Susțin bring a mix of experience that fits together: advertising, film, NGO work and CSR. Each has built projects with impact in their own field, and together we put that expertise at the service of communities. Alongside them work specialists, coordinators and volunteers.

The founders

Costin Crețulescu

Strategy and development

Costin Crețulescu

Co-founder and president

Twenty-odd years in advertising, where he made brands heard and NGOs listened to. He believes in the combination of creativity, technology and stubborn optimism to turn ideas into movements that change communities.

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Andrei Gâțu

Production and projects

Andrei Gâțu

Co-founder

A film producer with broad experience in the Romanian media industry, he has coordinated multiple complex communication campaigns. With expertise in developing EU-funded projects, he has been consistently involved in the relationship between NGOs and the private sector, facilitating the creation of several successful CSR campaigns.

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Mihai Mănescu

Stories and education

Mihai Mănescu

Co-founder

A specialist in implementing communication strategies for fundraising campaigns. An author of children's books, screenwriter and film producer, with broad NGO experience gained working for one of Romania's most important non-profit medical organisations.

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Impact, sustainability and creative work

Magda Muntean

Magda Muntean

Director of impact and sustainability

Over 20 years in the non-governmental and consultancy sector: institutional fundraising, programme management, organisational development and sustainability, from programme and development director positions and from management boards. She has over 7 years as a grants officer and consultant on European programmes, with more than 1,000 projects assessed, and is a member of Social Value International. At Susțin, she connects impact measurement, organisational development and long-term partnerships.

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Cristina „Șoricel”

Identity and visual direction

Cristina „Șoricel”

Senior Art Director

A senior art director trained in major advertising agencies, with years of work on top brands and national-scale campaigns. She brings the rigour of a creative studio to Susțin: coherent visual identity, art direction end to end, and care for the detail that makes the difference between a message seen and a message remembered.

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THE TEAM THAT MAKES THINGS HAPPEN

The coordinators.
Responsibility, every day.

They grew into the work at Cinema Europa and are people we rely on across other Susțin projects too. They coordinate teams, solve situations and carry things forward, together with the community.

Ioana Bondar

Ioana Bondar

Cinema Europa · Susțin

Theodora Patru

Theodora Patru

Cinema Europa · Susțin

Maria Panait

Maria Panait

Cinema Europa · Susțin

David Pașca

David Pașca

Cinema Europa · Susțin

Sara Dragici

Sara Dragici

Cinema Europa · Susțin

Diana Dragan

Diana Dragan

Cinema Europa · Susțin

Toma

Toma

Cinema Europa · Susțin

Anca Cartan

Anca Cartan

Cinema Europa · Susțin

THE COMMUNITY BEHIND THE PROJECTS

Volunteers who grow
along with Susțin.

Around 200 volunteers are part of the Susțin community, of whom roughly 100 are involved at Cinema Europa. Every contribution counts, from the first shifts to taking on projects and responsibilities.

We also want to make room here for the people who have stood out through their involvement, initiative and the way they work with others.

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ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS

Their people and their stories,
coming here soon.

Which profiles appear is decided together with the volunteers. We will add names, portraits and each person's contribution.