Brost Foundation
| Brost Foundation | |
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| Legal form: | Foundation under civil law |
| Purpose: | Funding of projects for the Ruhr area |
| Chair: | Wolfgang Heit †, Bodo Hombach , Thomas Sacher |
| Consist: | since 2011 |
| Founder: | Anneliese Brost |
| Seat: | eat |
| Website: | www.broststiftung.ruhr |
The Brost Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Essen . It promotes and develops projects that are intended to advance and strengthen the Ruhr area . The focus of funding is primarily on innovative, cooperative and perspective projects in the Ruhr area. The Brost Foundation was established on June 1, 2011. The founder was Anneliese Brost , the foundation in his will had decreed.
aims
The Brost Foundation wants to support the identity, the cooperative togetherness and the hands-on self-help of the Ruhr area. It supports other corporations and develops its own projects in the following areas:
- Arts and Culture
- Youth and elderly care
- Popular and vocational education
- Charitable causes
organization
Board
The Brost Foundation has an operationally active three-person board that is responsible for the strategic direction of the foundation's work and also decides on the approval of funding applications. He reports regularly to the Board of Trustees, which supports and accompanies his work.
- Chairman of the Board of Management, Wolfgang Heit †
- Deputy Chairman, Bodo Hombach
- Member of the Board of Management, Thomas Sacher
Board of Trustees
The seven-member board of trustees of the Brost Foundation consists of personalities from politics, business and culture. They are appointed by the board for three years each. The task of the board of trustees is to advise the board of directors and ensure that funds are used.
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dieter Engels
- Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Claus-Michael Baier
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Ilse Brusis
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Guido Krüger
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Jürgen Rüttgers
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Henning von der Forst
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Gerhard Winter
Managing directors
In the Brost Foundation, two managing directors share the tasks of active foundation work and work on the board of directors.
- Managing Director, Boris Berger
- Managing Director, Jens Florian Heit
advancement
From 2011 to the end of 2018, the Brost Foundation approved funding for 114 projects. The total volume of the approved funding amounts to 30.2 million euros. 56% of the total went to the arts and culture sector, 27.7% to adult education and vocational training, 16.2% to youth and elderly care and 0.1% to charitable support. The funded projects include the photo exhibition "Melting Pott" by Till Brönner , the construction of the Anneliese Brost Music Forum Ruhr in Bochum, the function as city clerk in the Ruhr - during which authors from outside the Ruhr area travel to and from the region for a year describe - or the promotion of lit.RUHR, an offshoot of lit.COLOGNE in the Ruhr area.
literature
- OFFICIAL SHEET for the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Volume 193, No. 24, published in Düsseldorf on June 24, 2011 ( brd.nrw.de [PDF; 117 kB]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Brost Foundation. In: WAZ.de . October 14, 2012, accessed October 15, 2019 (on the establishment of the Brost Foundation).
- ↑ Till Brönner. "The pot is the America of Germany". Poor, gray, but still attractive: jazz musician Till Brönner thinks that the Germans should take the Ruhr area as an example. His photo exhibition in Duisburg shows what he means. An interview by Isabel Metzger. In: Spiegel Online . June 30, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 (for the Melting Pott exhibition).
- ^ Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr Funding application to Brost Foundation. In: WAZ.de, October 17, 2013, accessed October 14, 2019.
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↑ Gila Lustiger becomes the Ruhr town clerk. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . July 26, 2017, accessed on July 27, 2017. -
(dpa): Wolfram Eilenberger is the new Ruhr town clerk. In: ZEIT Online . September 30, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019. - ↑ lit.RUHR partner. In: lit.ruhr, accessed on November 19, 2019.