NGO "Krantas"

What NGO "Krantas" does

NVO "Krantas" is a Plungė-based non-governmental, non-profit youth organization that has operated continuously for 16 years, organizing community events, international youth exchanges, and EU-funded projects for young people in Lithuania's Plungė district. The organization's activities span an annual event calendar — including its birthday celebration, the "Amūro palytėti" St. Valentine's Day event (drawing 500+ attendees), "Summer Heist" extreme sports competitions, "Kava sielai" coffee-culture events, Earth Hour initiatives, and the "Net mažytė smulkmena priverčia nusišypsoti" Christmas charity action — alongside multilateral Erasmus+ exchanges with partner organizations in Slovakia, France, Denmark, Germany, and Romania, and the "Mindėtė" and "Narutavičius 1918" civic-commemoration projects co-organized with peer Plungė youth NGOs.

The organization is governed by a six-person board: Chair Samanta Leliugaitė, Vice-Chair Mangirdas Vauras, and coordinators for HR (Ramunė Tamošauskaitė), PR (Karina Lukošytė), finance (Orinta Liubertaitė), and projects (Emilijus Danys). Its "technology" stack is not applicable — Krantas operates as a community and event-driven organization with no proprietary software, no commercial products, and no digital platform; outreach runs through a WordPress website (nvokrantas.lt) and a Facebook page. The address-of-record is Gandingos g. 10-11, Plungė.

Funding is grant-based and project-scoped rather than commercial: the most recently quantified inflow is a €14,273 VVG Local Action Group project ("Jauno verslo įgalinimas Plungės mieste"), of which €11,989 is EU co-financing, supporting equipment provision to MB "VA group" for a youth-led confectionery startup. Additional inflows are sourced from Erasmus+ mobility grants and international exchange partners. There are no disclosed budgets, no commercial pricing, no headcount growth signals beyond the ~50 active member base, and no payments to the organization from program participants.

Name

NGO "Krantas"

Legal name

NVO "Krantas"

Website

https://nvokrantas.lt

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NVO "Krantas" is a Plungė, Lithuania-based non-profit youth organization running community events, Erasmus+ youth exchanges, and EU-funded social and entrepreneurship projects for young people in the Plungė district.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Community Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGADAB

K–12 Support & School Improvement Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

SECONDARYBPAGADAL

Dropout Prevention, Alternative Education & Re-Engagement Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

Keywords

• Youth community programs
• Nonprofit youth engagement
• Erasmus plus exchanges
• Community event organizing
• Youth entrepreneurship support

Headquarters

HQ city

Plungė

HQ country

Lithuania

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. EU Project Funding: NVO Krantas receives funding through European Union projects including the VVG project for youth entrepreneurship enabling in Plungė city (project value €14,273, EU funding €11,989), and Erasmus+ youth exchanges and mobility programs.
2. International Project Partnerships: Revenue and resources come through participation in international youth exchange projects with partners from Slovakia, France, Denmark, Germany, Romania and Lithuania, funded by EU programs.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

NVO Krantas is a non-governmental, non-profit youth organization that delivers community events, charity actions, and EU-funded youth projects (including Erasmus+ exchanges and the VVG entrepreneurship project) for young people in the Plungė district. It operates as a volunteer member collective of approximately 50 active participants, with no commercial products or services sold and all activities provided free of charge to participants.

Product overview

NVO "Krantas" is a non-governmental, non-profit youth organization based in Plungė, Lithuania. The organization does not offer commercial products or services; rather, it focuses on organizing events, community activities, youth projects, and EU-funded initiatives for young people in the Plungė region. The organization operates through volunteer members and coordinates various annual events, international youth exchanges, and social projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 500+ young people engaged annually through flagship 'Amūro palytėti' event alone
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MB "VA group"coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026MB 'VA group' partners with NVO Krantas in the VVG EU-funded project 'Youth Entrepreneurship Enabling in Plungė City'. MB 'VA group' provides necessary equipment for a beginning confectionery business including main production equipment, work tools, and technological base required for quality confectionery production.
• VVG (Vietos veiklos grupė)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026VVG (Local Action Group) is the EU project initiator and funding partner in the youth entrepreneurship project. The project aims to create favorable conditions for a new confectionery business in Plungė, reduce social exclusion, and promote youth employment and entrepreneurship.
• LMS Plungės MSICcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018LMS Plungės MSIC is a joint project partner in the 'Mindėėė' festival celebrating King Mindaugas Coronation Day. This Plungė youth organization collaborated with NVO Krantas, Interact Club, and Indigo Youth Club to organize a major festival.
• Plungės "Interact" klubascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Plungė Interact Club partnered with NVO Krantas and other youth organizations for the 'Mindėėė' festival and the 'Narutavičius 1918' project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Act of Independence of Lithuania.
• Jaunimo klubas "Indigo"coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Indigo Youth Club partnered with NVO Krantas for the 'Mindėėė' festival and other collaborative youth initiatives in Plungė region.
• Alsėdžių S. Narutavičiaus gimnazijaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018S. Narutavičius Gymnasium in Alsėdžiai partnered with NVO Krantas and other youth organizations for the 'Narutavičius 1918' project commemorating signatory Stanislovas Narutavičius on the 100th anniversary of Lithuania's independence.
• Plungės kultūros centro jaunimo klubas "Indigo"coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Indigo Youth Club under Plungė Cultural Center collaborated with NVO Krantas on the 'Narutavičius 1918' historical commemoration project unveiled on February 16, 2018.
• Youth Organizations (Slovakia, France)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Eco.Log.Y was a trilateral exchange project involving Slovakia, France, and Lithuania. 24 young people from these countries participated in discussions on ecology, responsible consumption, and social media during July 22-30 in Plateliai.
• International Youth Organizations (Denmark, Germany, Romania)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011International partners from Denmark, Germany, and Romania collaborated with NVO Krantas for the 'Ycity 2011' youth exchange project. 48 young people from these countries participated in creating a vision for Plungė city as a good place to live.
• International Youth Organizations (5 countries)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2010'Use Negative - Make Positive' was a multilateral exchange project held June 6-14, 2010 in Plungė with 31 young people from 5 different countries participating.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Jaunimo klubas „Indigo": Plungė Cultural Center-affiliated youth club that has co-organized the 'Mindėtėtė' festival and 'Narutavičius 1918' projects directly with NVO Krantas. Operates the same youth-engagement and event-driven model in the same district, making it the closest directly comparable organization.
• Plungės „Interact" klubas: Rotary International-sponsored Interact club in Plungė that has partnered with NVO Krantas on joint youth events and civic commemorations. It targets the same youth demographic in the same district with similar event-led, service-learning activities.
• LMS Plungės MSIC: Plungė multi-service youth center that has co-produced festivals with NVO Krantas. It is a publicly funded youth-information operator in the exact same locality, providing a directly comparable youth-services model.

Broad incumbents

• Lietuvos vaikų ir jaunimo centras (LVJC): State-run Lithuanian Children and Youth Centre that organizes national non-formal education programs and youth exchanges. Comparable as a broader, publicly funded incumbent running youth engagement and EU-funded exchange activities that compete for the same participant pools and grants.
• Junior Achievement Lithuania: National affiliate of Junior Achievement delivering youth entrepreneurship programs in Lithuanian schools. Highly comparable because Krantas's VVG 'Jauno verslo įgalinimas' project (supporting a youth confectionery startup) sits in the exact same youth-entrepreneurship category JA serves.

Others

• SALTO Youth (Erasmus+ resource centre network): EU-funded network of resource centres supporting Erasmus+ youth-work organizations like Krantas. Comparable as a peer only in the sense that it intermediates the same funding and capacity-building resources on which Krantas depends, rather than competing for participants.

Regional players

• Jaunimo Europos komitetas (JES, Lithuania): National-level Lithuanian youth umbrella member of the European Youth Forum. Comparable as a national-scale youth-organization platform that channels Erasmus+ and EU youth-program opportunities similar to those Krantas accesses, but operating country-wide rather than district-wide.
• Erasmus Student Network (ESN) Lithuania: Volunteer student-led network running exchanges and youth-mobility projects with EU backing. Directly comparable to Krantas's mobility-program model (Erasmus+ youth exchanges across 7+ countries) but operating nationally and at higher education level rather than district-level K-12/youth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/NVOKrantas
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ngo-krantas-

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

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