Adessium Foundation
| The Adessium Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Legal form: | ANBI |
| Purpose: | We work to achieve a balanced society, characterized by integrity, a balance between people and nature and social harmony. ( We work to achieve a balanced society characterized by integrity, a balance between people and nature, and social harmony. ) |
| Chair: | Rogier van Vliet |
| Consist: | since 2005 |
| Founder: | Gerard van Vliet |
| Seat: | Reeuwijk |
| Website: | www.adessium.org |
The Adessium Foundation is a humanitarian foundation with headquarters in Reeuwijk .
The foundation was founded in 2005 by the commodities trader Gerard van Vliet and his family with the proceeds from the sale of his investment company and donates around 18 million euros per year (2017).
Grants
- In 2018, the Adessium Foundation supported projects with a total of € 17.359 million . Only 8% of the funds went to non-European countries, the rest was divided roughly equally between projects in the Netherlands and the rest of the European Union .
In addition to people / nature and social initiatives, the foundation is also involved in the media sector, is one of the sponsors of the International Network of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), finances the Correctiv Portal with others and, along with 15 other foundations, is one of the founders of the Civitates financing company, which operates as "Initiative for Democracy and Solidarity in Europe" was founded.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "adessium.org - About us" Homepage, accessed on May 15, 2019
- ↑ a b "Adessium Foundation - 2018 Annual Report" Annual Report 2018, accessed on May 14, 2019, page 18
- ↑ a b c Charles Keidan: "Interview: Adessium Foundation" alliancemagazine.org of 5 December 2017 Retrieved on May 14, 2019
- ^ "Initiative for Democracy and Solidarity in Europe" stiftung-mercator.de