The Civic Alliance Foundation (Romanian: Alianţa Civică, AC) is a Romanian non-governmental organization (NGO). It is one of the largest Romanian NGOs, working for the consolidation of a civil society in the aftermath of the 42-year-long communist regime. The AC has subsidiaries in 36 of the 41 counties, overseen by a 27-member National Council. Its motto is Nu putem reuşi decât împreună ("Only together can we succeed").
Founded on November 6, 1990, when a group of 216 founding members (Romanian intellectuals from all fields of public life) signed a project-statement, it was officially registered on November 29 of the same year. During the early 1990s, the association was involved in protests against the ruling National Salvation Front, including the Golaniad public gathering that were ended by the June 1990 Mineriad. In July 1991, a sizeable portion of its members, led by Nicolae Manolescu, split with the AC over participation in national elections, and founded the Civic Alliance Party.
According to its statute, the main goals of the Civic Alliance Foundation are as follows:
working for the establishment of a civil society and the rule of law in Romaniadefending human rights and fundamental freedomsdefending individual rights and the creation of a climate of tolerance among citizenspromoting democratic values and institutions, and consolidating real democracy in Romaniadefending civic and individual interests regardless of ethnic origin, language, religion, and so onorganizing civic education programsregaining historical truth, moral values, and awareness that have been affected through imposing totalitarian communist rulepromoting awareness, respect, and dissemination of truth in public life, through combating all forms of violence and deception, through promotion of tolerance and dialogue within the association as well as within the social and political life of the country at largepromoting real values, eliminating corruption and incompetence from economical, social, and political lifesupporting the continuation of economic, social, and administrative reformsinvolvement in the process of informing about Romania's Euro-Atlantic integrationcreating and maintaining natural links between the Romanian diaspora and countrydeveloping relations with Romanians outside Romania's borders, and with the Romanian diaspora, in supporting their actions to maintain their national identityoffering support to underprivileged social categoriesPetre Mihai BăcanuAna BlandianaIon CaramitruVictor CiorbeaEmil ConstantinescuDoina CorneaLucia Hossu LonginSorin IlieşiuAdrian MarinoIoan T. MorarDan PuricŞerban Rădulescu-ZonerRomulus RusanMihai ŞoraStelian TănaseVasile Baghiu