{"id":6625,"date":"2017-07-03T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T00:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/?page_id=6625"},"modified":"2017-08-31T21:22:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T01:22:05","slug":"alena-vachnova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/alumni\/2017-2018-fellows\/alena-vachnova\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/hhh\/files\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.06.22-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hhh\/files\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.06.22-PM-510x636.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-08-31 at 9.06.22 PM\" width=\"222\" height=\"276\" class=\"wp-image-6961 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/files\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.06.22-PM-510x636.png 510w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/files\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.06.22-PM.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Alena Vachnov\u00e1<\/h1>\n<h2>SLOVAKIA<\/h2>\n<p>Ms. Alena Vachnov\u00e1 is a Project Manager at SPDDD \u00dasmev ako dar (Society Smile as a Gift), Slovakia\u2019s oldest\u00a0and largest\u00a0NGO dedicated to abandoned children and families in need. Her role encompasses strategic planning, project management, development activities (mainly social entrepreneurship and\u00a0public housing projects for socially disadvantaged individuals and families), fundraising, and networking with regional, national, and international partners. Over the past three years, Ms. Vachnov\u00e1 raised funds to support the construction of new crisis and housing centers for over 100 people. She recently prepared proposals for EU funds and other funding mechanisms to develop\u00a0a nationwide network of\u00a0professionals who\u00a0will provide high quality, long-term support for the most vulnerable families in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Vachnov\u00e1 is currently pursuing a PhD in\u00a0Social Work with a concentration in social entrepreneurship at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ku.sk\/index.php\/fakulty-a-pracoviska\/teologicka-fakulta\">Catholic University<\/a>\u00a0in Ru\u017eomberok, where she previously earned a certificate in fundamentals of philosophy and theology. She holds Doctor of Law (JUDr.) and\u00a0Master of Law (Mgr.) degrees from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/faculty-of-law\/?prefferedLang=EN\">Pavol Jozef \u0160af\u00e1rik University<\/a>\u00a0in Ko\u0161ice. She further completed a two-year postgraduate study of international relations, law, geopolitics, and languages in the Faculty of Law at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flaw.uniba.sk\/studium\/da\/studium\/\">Komensk\u00e9ho University<\/a>\u00a0in Bratislava.<\/p>\n<p>During her Fellowship year, Ms. Vachnov\u00e1 plans to examine successful social entrepreneurship projects and models in the United States as well as the legal and funding models that support them. Following her return to Slovakia, she plans to build a nationwide network of social enterprises and promote social entrepreneurship as a means to combat high unemployment in the country\u2019s least developed regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alena Vachnov\u00e1 SLOVAKIA Ms. Alena Vachnov\u00e1 is a Project Manager at SPDDD \u00dasmev ako dar (Society Smile as a Gift), Slovakia\u2019s oldest\u00a0and largest\u00a0NGO dedicated to abandoned children and families in need. Her role encompasses strategic planning, project management, development activities (mainly social entrepreneurship and\u00a0public housing projects for socially disadvantaged individuals and families), fundraising, and networking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3207,"featured_media":0,"parent":3652,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6962,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6625\/revisions\/6962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}