- Over $700,000 invested in the scholarship fund
- 160 beneficiaries, many of whom have already graduated college and are now working
- Over 730 American and Romanian donors
- Over 100 mentors
- Over 300 volunteers
- The program is carried out in more than 20 of Romania’s 40 counties. Among the active cities are Arad, Bacău, Bistrița Năsăud, Brăila, Brașov, Caraș Severin, Cluj, Constanța, Dolj, Ialomița, Iași, Ilfov, Giurgiu, Harghita, Mehedinți, Neamț, Oradea, Prahova, Satu Mare, Sibiu, Suceava, Târgu Mureș, Teleorman, Timiș, Tulcea and Bucharest.
- Some of our alumni have become mentors and/or donors, in turn.
- Several of our students have initiated and coordinated social and artistic projects that we have also supported.
- We’ve organized the annual Blue Heron Summer Camp which offers our students new opportunities for personal and professional development, networking and fun.
- Blue Heron prides itself in pioneering a one of a kind, comprehensive scholarship program that inspires other countries and organizations to replicate it. To date, Bosana Foundation, a non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to disadvantaged Bosnian children has successfully replicated the Blue Heron model.
