Citizen Foundation Hamburg
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| Legal form: | Non-profit foundation under civil law |
| Purpose: | Promotion of youth and elderly care, upbringing and education, science and research, art and culture, environmental and nature protection and civic engagement for charitable purposes |
| Chair: | Dr. Dagmar Entholt Laudies |
| Managing directors: | Rüdiger Ratsch-Heitmann |
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| Foundation capital: | 35.1 million euros (2017) |
| Number of employees: | 20 full-time employees, around 400 volunteers |
| Seat: | Hamburg |
| Website: | buergerstiftung-hamburg.de |
The BürgerStiftung Hamburg is a community foundation in Hamburg . It was founded as a community foundation by Hamburgers for Hamburgers in 1999 and lives from the idea of civil society engagement. Everyone can participate under the motto "Connect people - create the future" - with money, with personal commitment, with ideas.
Around 400 people from Hamburg volunteer at the foundation with a wide variety of skills and tasks, such as office work, banking, project evaluation, looking after trust foundations, organizing events or raising funds. Many are directly involved in the projects, read aloud, help with the organization, and give “good advice on site”. Donors, donors and trust donors make the work of the BürgerStiftung Hamburg possible through their financial commitment.
20 full-time employees, including six project coordinators, work for the foundation. In addition to developing and implementing its own projects, the foundation places a focus on promoting other projects on request. Through financial support and advice, it strengthens people and projects who are already active on their own initiative and with local expertise. All projects are checked, funded for as long as possible and regularly evaluated.
The central concern of the foundation is to find ways in which disadvantage and the consequences of poverty can be countered, especially for future generations. It is not about charity, but always about sustainable change in society. Like most community foundations, the foundation has a broad foundation purpose. Currently, however, it supports children and youth projects in socially disadvantaged districts.
It bears the seal of approval for community foundations of the Federal Association of German Foundations , is one of the first of its kind in Germany and fulfills the “10 characteristics of a community foundation”.
Foundation capital and project funding
Among other things, an anonymous € 15 million donation in July 2010 increased the basic assets to € 15,855,000 at the end of 2010. The reserves were increased to € 312,000, bringing the total capital to € 16,167,000 at the end of 2010 .
The foundation supervises nine trust foundations with a foundation capital of 11.3 million euros at the end of 2010 under its roof (August Mohr Foundation, Blankenburg'sche Hamburg Foundation, C. Kaehlert Foundation, Gudrun Halbrock Foundation for the Well-Being of Children, Hamburg Affiliation Foundation, Helga Bruhn Foundation, Karl Andreas Voss Erben Foundation, Margot and Ernst Noack Foundation, Marienhöhe Foundation). Including these trust foundations, the BürgerStiftung Hamburg administers foundation assets of almost 28 million euros.
She was able to increase her project funding from 655,000 euros in 2009 to 690,000 euros in 2010. The foundation invested a large part of the additional 35,000 euros in new funding projects from the “HAMBURGER ANKER” foundation fund. A total of 53 projects were funded in 2010, benefiting around 5,200 children and young people (2009: 43 projects with around 4,700 children and young people). In 2010, the foundation therefore continued to support 36 of its previous year's projects, some of which it expanded, and 17 new projects were added.
Prize from the Hamburg Citizens' Foundation
Once a year, the foundation awards the "Connecting people - creating the future" prize. It is endowed with 10,000 euros, which the jury will award to a maximum of two award winners. The competition is aimed at Hamburg initiatives that promote exchange and cooperation - between young and old, economically strong and weak, between people with and without handicaps, between different milieus, beliefs, cultures and value systems.
Ambassador of the BürgerStiftung Hamburg
Linda Zervakis, Hamburg journalist and "Tagesschau" presenter, is the ambassador of the BürgerStiftung Hamburg. She took over this honorary position in November 2018. Linda Zervakis had already volunteered at the BürgerStiftung Hamburg: Since 2010 she has been the patron of the "Step by Step" project, which carries out dance projects at Hamburg schools. In addition, Zervakis acted several times as a moderator at charity events of the Hamburg Foundation.