CITIZENS FOR EUROPE

Citizens For Europe (CFE) is a civil non-profit society organization and social business based in Berlin. We work on the local level across Europe changing political and social structures to foster a more inclusive, democratic and participatory society... When we started in 2009, Citizens For Europe was a traditional civil society actor, fully dependent on public and private funding and focusing on social change through activism. Through the years we discovered that the knowledge and expertise we developed in our projects was valuable for others and increasingly in demand by private and public institutions. Around 2014, we learned that by combining entrepreneurial approaches with activism we were able to scale the impact of our activities, to become more independent from funding and grants, to design, promote and sell products to trigger social change, to shift from fundraiser to service provider and even grant maker, to professionalize the function of our organization, all that while..

Registration numbers: HRB 160338 B (W)

Primary location: Berlin