Community Foundation Bremen

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Community Foundation Bremen
Legal form: Legal foundation under civil law
Purpose: Charitable and charitable purposes
Chair: Eberhard Muras
Consist:
Founder: City of Bremen
and sponsor
Foundation capital: ~ 440,000 EUR (end of 2008)
Seat: Bremen
Website: www.buergerstiftung-bremen.de

The Bürgerstiftung Bremen is a legal foundation under civil law. The Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen established it - acting on behalf of the City of Bremen - on April 24, 2002.

purpose

The Bremen Community Foundation connects people who want to actively do something for living together in Bremen. It offers a platform with know-how, networks, advice, projects and - as far as the forces can - also money for the ideas of the citizens.

According to the statutes, the foundation's purpose is broad and concerns the promotion and development of projects in the areas of education, youth and elderly care, culture and art, science and research, environmental and nature protection, landscape and monument protection, sport, public health , International understanding, promotion of the democratic state and benevolent purposes, as far as the city of Bremen is not legally obliged to do these tasks. The measures can be carried out by the foundation itself or funded by third parties. In terms of funding, it should be essential that the projects are predominantly characterized by civic engagement / voluntary work.

Under the motto: "Moving Bremen together", the Executive Board and the Board of Trustees have decided on the following priorities for the time being:

  • Citizen responsibility and citizen participation
  • Coexistence of generations and cultures
  • Civil courage and violence prevention

organization

The foundation bodies are the board of directors, the foundation council, the founders ' meeting and specialist committees.

  • The board of directors is elected by the board of trustees. He leads and administers the foundation.
  • The Board of Trustees consists of 12 to 15 people and is supplemented by co-opting . He advises and supervises the board of directors.
  • The donor assembly consists of the donors; they belong to her for life. The founders' meeting is to be informed about the essential work of the foundation. It advises the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees and makes recommendations for their composition.
  • Specialized committees can be set up by the executive board. Your tasks are in particular to advise the foundation committees, the use of the allocated budget and the implementation of the foundation's own projects.

The Bremen Community Foundation meets the criteria for a community foundation and has received the seal of approval for community foundations from the Federal Association of German Foundations.

activities

Structure and use of the foundation's assets

So far, 32 people and companies from Bremen with donations of approx. 100,000 euros followed. The foundation's assets now amount to around 440,000 euros. In addition to the aforementioned endowments, a good 900,000 euros in donations and grants were raised, including 3 large-scale donations. Around 460,000 euros have since gone into 75 projects for the benefit of Bremen's citizens.

Hilde Adolf Prize

Since 2005, the Bremen Community Foundation has awarded the prize, named after Senator Hilde Adolf , who died in an accident in 2002 . It is supported by company donations and consists of a sculpture of the namesake and prize money. The award honors and promotes exemplary initiatives with voluntary work and civic engagement.
Previous winners were:

  • 2005 the center for grieving children and the volunteer agency
  • 2006 the night walker Bremen-Nord project
  • 2007 the parents' association for psychomotor development support eV
  • 2008 the Grohner Singpaten in the KTH house Windeck Bremen-Grohn
  • 2009 the parents' association for educational support eV in Bremen-Marßel
  • 2010 Crazy Run eV , leisure initiative for disabled and non-disabled people
  • 2011 the Garden of Cultures , integration project
  • 2012 the Martinsclub Bremen , for the project "Inclusive City of Bremen"
  • 2013 the Fluchtraum Bremen eV for the project “Summer Sponsorships”, a vacation care for traumatized refugee children
  • 2014 the Bremen action alliance “Human Right to Housing” , for particularly courageous and imaginative work against the housing shortage
  • 2015 the "Help network for the promotion of language and culture mediators eV" in Bremen Arsten and Kattenturm
  • In 2016, the Kulturpflanze eV association for the project "Ab geht die Lucie", an open community garden on the city's Lucie-Flechtmann-Platz
  • In 2017 the editor of the school newspaper "Heimatlos" at the grammar school Links der Weser . Motto of this year's call: “Democracy. Just do it yourself. "
  • 2018 the Vahrer Löwen association for the networking of associations and people in the district, especially for senior work. Motto 2018: Strong guys in the neighborhood - fellow people who remember.
  • In 2019 the Matthias Claudius day care center and the United Evangelical Church Community Neustadt as a good example of this year's motto of the award “Young and old together”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clarification due to the dual function of the Senate for the City and State of Bremen
  2. ↑ "Bürgerstiftung Bremen" takes concrete form - Senate adopts statutes . senatspressestelle.bremen.de. April 16, 2002. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
  3. ↑ Foundation database : Bürgerstiftung Bremen . buergerstiftungen.de. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b c statutes (PDF) buergerstiftung-bremen.de. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ Bürgerstiftung Bremen has received the seal of approval of the community foundations in the Federal Association of German Foundations . buergerstiftung-bremen.de. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ Senate press office - Bürgerstiftung Bremen concludes the Rhododendronpark fundraising campaign. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, June 11, 2009, accessed on October 21, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Committed to the common good of your city. Civic Foundation Bremen honors the winners of the Hilde Adolf Prize 2011. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, October 21, 2011, accessed on October 21, 2011 .
  8. ↑ A decade in action with and for Bremen's citizens. Two award ceremonies, a program for the 10th birthday of the Bremen Community Foundation. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, September 17, 2012, accessed on September 17, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Two awards, one goal. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, September 27, 2013, accessed on September 28, 2013 .
  10. ^ Antje Stürmann: Together against the housing shortage. Action alliance “Human Right to Housing” wins the Hilde Adolf Prize this year. In: Weser-Kurier of October 14, 2014, p. 8 ( online at www.weser-kurier.de)
  11. ↑ Hilde Adolf Prize 2016. (pdf) (No longer available online.) Buergerstiftung-bremen.de, archived from the original on July 3, 2016 ; Retrieved July 3, 2016 . 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buergerstiftung-bremen.de
  12. ↑ Alice Echtermann: A price for Lucie. weser-kurier.de, September 27, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Katharina Frohne: Community Foundation recognizes commitment to democracy. weser-kurier.de, September 15, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Elke Hoesmann: Inka Kusen and her vahrer Löwen receive the Hilde Adolf Prize. weser-kurier.de, October 26, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Sigrid Schuer: Hilde Adolf Prize awarded to the Matthias Claudius community. weser-kurier.de, October 25, 2019, accessed on October 26, 2019 .