Children for a better world

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Children for a better World
(CHILDREN)
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legal form non-profit registered association
founding January 22, 1994
founder Gabriele Quandt , Florian Langenscheidt
Seat Munich ( ⊙ coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 5.4 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 32.9 ″  E )
motto With children. For children!
purpose Combating the consequences of child poverty in Germany , promoting young people's involvement , participation of children and young people
Managing directors Cornelius Nohl
sales 1,828,737 euros (2018)
Employees 11 (2018)
Members 39 (2018)
Website www.children.de

Children for a better World eV (short: CHILDREN) is a children's aid organization based in Munich and was founded in 1994 by Gabriele Quandt and Florian Langenscheidt under the motto "With children. For children!" founded CHILDREN achieved a year more than 10,000 children and young people, promotes programs against child poverty in Germany and supports the volunteer involvement of young people. To date, more than 38 million euros in donations have been made.

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

history

On January 22 In 1994, Gabriele Quandt and Florian Langenscheidt along with 30 dedicated people (inspired by the UN Children's Convention ) the association Children for a Better World eV To ensure the work of the association sustainable, called Gabriele Quandt and Florian Langenscheidt in December 2007 the foundation of the same name with assets of over five million euros. The foundation celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2017.

For the 25th anniversary of the association in 2019, CHILDREN started a nationwide campaign against child poverty . Under the motto “I give up”, celebrities and children show how easy it can be to give something and help poor children with it. Celebrities like Eckart von Hirschhausen , Lisa & Lena , Günter Netzer , David Garrett , Pumuckl , Peter Maffay , Victoria Swarovski and Cherno Jobatey will be there .

construction

society

The association's board consists of the chairmen Gabriele Quandt , Andreas Lukoschik , Ulrike de Vries, Katharina Le Thierry d'Ennequin, Alexandra Heraeus, Raphael Langenscheidt and Jan Knauss. A board of trustees is available to advise the board. Members include Caroline Link and Alfred Theodor Ritter .

Foundation, endowment

The association is supported by the Children for a better World foundation founded in December 2007 by Gabriele Quandt and Florian Langenscheidt . The managing director of the foundation is Ulrike de Vries. Together, the founders and management pursue the goal of using the foundation to ensure long-term, permanent financial support for the association. The foundation undertakes to comply with the principles of good foundation practice from the Federal Association of German Foundations . The foundation's work is seen as positive: in the context of a study by Stiftung Warentest on donation organizations, it was certified as being highly transparent. In 2017, the founders of the foundation were awarded the German Founder Prize from the Federal Association of German Foundations, presented by Federal Family Minister Manuela Schwesig .

Projects

CHILDREN discoverer

In Germany , 2.7 million children and young people under the age of 25 are affected by poverty, that is almost every fifth child. The CHILDREN Entdecker program combats the consequences of child poverty in Germany and enables children affected by poverty to develop healthily. These CHILDREN works with more than 60 facilities in deprived areas of Germany together and thus reached 4,500 children. One focus is on financing lunch. A balanced diet and cooking together help to promote social skills , to guarantee the children a regular daily routine and to offer the necessary nutrients good conditions for concentrated work. In addition, the CHILDREN Discovery Fund enables poor children and young people to go on excursions and activities that the children would otherwise be denied for financial reasons. The aim is for the sponsored children to acquire everyday skills, learn new things and broaden their horizons. These goals are also pursued by the CHILDREN discovery grant, with which CHILDREN sends several socially disadvantaged young people abroad for a school year every year.

CHILDREN youth helps!

Young people invest less and less time in social engagement . The reasons are a lack of time and recognition as well as a lack of content and financial support. The CHILDREN youth program helps! makes these missing resources available. It supports children and young people who are committed to helping people in poverty , illness , need or difficult life situations with their own social projects . CHILDREN youth helps! is based on three pillars: With the fund , young people are financially supported in their projects with up to 2,500 euros each, the coaching provides the young people with content- related support with various workshop offers and the ideal support is implemented in the form of a competition in which a jury selects the eight most promising projects of a funding year. These eight winning projects will be invited to Berlin to further develop their projects there in various workshops, to network with one another and to learn from one another. At a subsequent award ceremony, the winning projects are recognized for their social commitment.

CHILDREN Children's Council

In six CHILDREN children's councils nationwide, children and young people decide on funding amounts of up to 1500 euros per funding application. The task should give them an insight into the work of social institutions and motivate them to deal with the problems of children in Germany and around the world. There are children's councils in Berlin , Munich , Hamburg , Hanau , Dortmund and Münster . The idea of ​​the CHILDREN Children's Council is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child , which states, among other things, that children have the right to freely express their opinion in all things that affect them.

Transparency and impact

Financial transparency

CHILDREN has been a member of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative (ITZ) since May 3, 2010 and is thus part of a broad action alliance within the German non-profit sector. As part of the ITZ , the CHILDREN association publishes relevant information on its statutes , the key decision-makers, the origin and use of funds and its personnel structure. In addition, the annual includes Annual Report the financial statements provided by an independent auditor is checked. To calculate the costs (including project, advertising and administrative costs), CHILDREN follows the definition of the DZI donation seal , which represents an industry standard and thus enables the figures collected to be compared with those of other organizations.

Effect of the projects

The CHILDREN organization regularly provides technical reports on the effectiveness of its program work. The impact-oriented publications appear in the following year and thus enable a comprehensive review of the goals set, the working methods, the successes and optimization plans of the programs. The impact-oriented evaluations make dynamic learning and development processes of work possible and contribute to the constant and efficient further development of the programs. This type of reporting, which is based on the reporting standard for social organizations ( Social Reporting Standard ), has been in place since 2011 .

Awards

Children for a better World eV has already received numerous awards for its transparent and impact-oriented work .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CHILDREN Fact Sheet 2019. (PDF) Children for a better World eV, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Federal Association of German Foundations: Inquiries: Gabriele Quandt and Dr. Florian Langenscheidt. (PDF) In: Foundation World. April 30, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .
  3. ^ Transparency International Deutschland eV: Signatory. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d CHILDREN discoverers. Children for a better World eV, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Kaija Landsberg, Aline Ehrenreich: Strong children. Strong future! (PDF) In: CHILDREN brochure. Children for a better World eV, 2016, accessed on May 12, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c CHILDREN Foundation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 17, 2017 ; accessed on May 12, 2017 . 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.children.de
  7. ^ Children for a better World eV: Campaign: "I give up". Children for a better World eV, accessed on March 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel (ed.): "I give up!" against child poverty. 25 years of "Children for a better World" . No. 23780 . Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, Berlin March 28, 2019, p. 14 .
  9. ^ Bild Zeitung (ed.): Winner - Florian Langenscheidt . No. 72/13 . Axel Springer SE, Berlin March 26, 2019, p. 1 ( archive.org [accessed March 29, 2019]).
  10. ↑ a b Children eV - Board of Directors and Board of Trustees. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Donation organizations of celebrities: With heart and mind on test.de from October 14, 2014, accessed online on October 28, 2014
  12. ↑ a b Gabriele Quandt and Dr. Florian Langenscheidt received the 2017 German Stifterpreis . March 23, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Donor Prize to Gabriele Quandt and Dr. Florian Langenscheidt awarded. (No longer available online.) Children for a better World eV, archived from the original on January 4, 2018 ; accessed on June 9, 2017 . 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.children.de
  14. ↑ Der Paritätische Gesamtverband: Report on the development of poverty in Germany 2017 , p. 32
  15. ↑ Living conditions and risk of poverty. In: Destatis. Federal Office of Statistics. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b c Fact Sheet CHILDREN Entdecker 2019. (PDF) Children for a better World eV, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
  17. ↑ a b CHILDREN Discovery Fund. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Volunteer Survey 2014. Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, April 14, 2016, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  19. ↑ a b Voluntary engagement in Germany. Central results of the volunteer survey 2014. (PDF) Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, November 2016, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Kathrin Fehse, Magdalena Bäuml: Impact-oriented portrait 2016. (PDF) Children for a better World eV, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  21. ↑ a b c Kathrin Fehse, Magdalena Bäuml: Impact-oriented report 2015. (PDF) Children for a better World eV, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Topic report: Promotion of volunteering: Targeted enthusiasm for young people! Phineo, May 1, 2010, accessed May 15, 2017 .
  23. ↑ a b c Fact Sheet CHILDREN JUGEND HILFT! (PDF) Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  24. ↑ a b c CHILDREN Youth helps! Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  25. ↑ CHILDREN JUGEND HILFT funding program! Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  26. ↑ a b CHILDREN Children's Council. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  27. ↑ UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: consideration of the child's opinion. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  28. ↑ a b CHILDREN is part of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative. (No longer available online.) Children for a better World eV, archived from the original on May 21, 2017 ; accessed on June 9, 2017 . 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.children.de
  29. ↑ Financial Report 2015. (PDF) Children for a better World eV, accessed on June 9, 2017 .
  30. ↑ CHILDREN eV - Transparency & Effect. Children for a better World eV, accessed on June 9, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Youth helps! - Land of ideas. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  32. ↑ See article in the WN .
  33. ↑ Award ceremony 2012. Accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  34. ↑ KOMPASS awarded in Berlin: Lighthouses of good foundation work. November 12, 2015, accessed May 15, 2017 .
  35. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt: Biography. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  36. ↑ CHILDREN News. (No longer available online.) March 18, 2016, archived from the original on February 15, 2018 ; accessed on May 15, 2017 . 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.children.de