Braunschweig Community Foundation

Braunschweig Community Foundation
Legal form:	legal foundation under civil law
Purpose:
Chair:	Hans-Herbert Jagla
Consist:	since September 18, 2003
Founder:	199 (as of November 2017)
Foundation capital:	~ € 2.53 million (2017) ~ € 12.53 million, including trust foundations (2017)
Number of employees:	4 full-time employees, 4 part-time employees, around 400 voluntary helpers
Seat:	Braunschweig
Website:	Braunschweig Community Foundation

The Braunschweig Community Foundation was founded on September 18, 2003 as part of a ceremony in the Dornse of the Braunschweig old town hall . Its creation was largely promoted by a lecture given by the then Lower Saxony Minister of Justice Christian Pfeiffer in August 2002.

Under the motto "Thinking - Contributing - Contributing", the foundation wants to promote social and cultural activities in particular. In addition to the pure funding, she also appears as a project operator. In 2016, around 80 projects in the areas of education, violence prevention and conflict counseling, mobilization of civic engagement, nature and environmental protection and art, culture and monument protection were funded. The most complex project is “On the way to books - Reading promotion at Braunschweig schools and daycare centers”, which has already reached around 70 facilities in Braunschweig and in which 150 voluntary reading mentors are regularly employed.

Including the trust foundations it manages , the foundation capital amounts to around EUR 12.53 million (April 2017). In 2016, 661,824 euros were invested in projects.

The foundation is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .

On April 1, 2015, the foundation was awarded the seal of quality for good trust foundation administration.

Citizen brunch

The foundation is known to a broad Braunschweig public for hosting the Braunschweig Citizens Brunch : In 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016, up to 1000 beer tent sets were set up in the old town. These tables were rented to citizens who brunch there. There were also stands with food and drink and stages with music and entertainment. The proceeds from the successful event went to the community foundation.

Awards

For the Braunschweiger Bürger-Brunch 2005 the first prize was awarded at the Kompass competition for foundation communication 2006 of the Federal Association of German Foundations . For her pilot project “Promoting the integration of migrant children in primary schools”, she received the 2007 award from the Aktive Bürgerschaft e. V. a second prize. The award was presented personally by the then Federal President Horst Köhler . For the pilot project “Bilingual Reading” on October 27, 2010, she received the 3rd prize in the competition “Engagement has (s) a price” worth 7,000 euros. The “Alliance for Citizenship” awarded the “Young and Committed” project in autumn 2011 as one of ten projects nationwide with prize money of 5000 euros. In November 2012 the foundation received the Kompass award for good foundation communication . The 2011 annual report was honored. On October 4, 2013 Ulrich E. Deissner and Karin Heidemann-Thien received the Federal Cross of Merit from the hands of Federal President Joachim Gauck at Bellevue Palace in Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Bürgerstiftung Braunschweig  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Braunschweig Community Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] , on buergerstiftungbraunschweig.de
2. ↑ www.transparency.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 4, 2014 
3. ↑ Kompass 2006 - Prize for good foundation communication
4. ↑ 2nd Prize Active Citizenship Award 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Ceremonial award ceremony for the 1st ideas competition of the "Alliance for Citizenship". October 27, 2010.
6. ↑ # 93; = 1 & tx_leonhardtdyncontent_pi1 [mode] = top1 & tx_leonhardtdyncontent_pi1 [id] = 2687 Compass Communication Prize awarded to four foundations. ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: stiftungen.org , November 15, 2012.