About Hromada
Hromada — Ukrainian for "community" — is a U.S. nonprofit supporting Ukrainian municipalities rebuilding civilian infrastructure with distributed renewable energy. We run a charitable funding pipeline that connects American donors directly with Ukrainian communities, platform Ukrainian voices in Washington through Congressional briefings and policy events, and facilitate technical exchange and capacity-building between U.S. partners and Ukrainian local governments.
What Hromada Is
The value of Hromada is not the platform itself. The value of Hromada is the communities it serves. Without them, the map would be empty. The website would be nothing. They asked for this. They are Hromada. That is our model.
Who We Are
Thomas Protzman
Founder, Executive Director
Thomas built Hromada to support Ukraine's renewable energy transition at the municipal level. He is a Working Group Member of the German Marshall Fund's Ukraine Cities Partnership and a contributor to the American-German Institute, where he writes about transatlantic affairs and politics. A Fulbright Austria alum, he holds a Master's in International Affairs from the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany.
Kostiantyn Krynytskyi
Founding Partner, Ukraine
Kostiantyn heads the Energy Department at NGO Ecoaction in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he focuses on green reconstruction, energy security, and decentralized renewable generation across Ukraine. A lawyer by training, he previously coordinated Ecoaction's campaign for a just transition of coal regions and has served as an analyst for Ukraine's Public Integrity Council.
Sloan Austermann
Co-Founder, Director of Technology & Development
Sloan is an AI Engineer at Accenture Federal Services, where he designs, builds, and deploys cloud-native systems supporting critical federal operations. He is also the founder of OmniSciences LLC, where he builds geometry-aware infrastructure for quantitative finance, computational chemistry, and neuroscience. He holds multiple professional AWS certifications and dual degrees in International Economics and Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.
Oleksandra Pashkina
Graduate Fellow, Partnerships and Communications
Oleksandra is pursuing a Master's degree in International Security from Sciences Po in Paris, France. A 2025 Hamilton National Fellow, she led the Alexander Hamilton Society's Ukraine Working Group at George Washington University, where she organized and hosted the two-day Ukraine Security Conference at the Elliott School of International Affairs. She also interned at the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States.
Our Partners
Trusted NGO partners on the ground in Ukraine verify projects and facilitate connections between communities and donors.
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