German Foundation Center

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The German Foundation Center GmbH (DSZ) is a service company based in Essen . It advises around 600 non-profit and benevolent foundations with assets totaling over 2.7 billion euros (as of 2016). The annual funding volume of the members amounts to around 120 million euros (as of 2016).

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As part of the establishment, advice and administration of foundations, the clients are involved in the development of programs and funding instruments as well as in the tendering of projects, grants and prizes. It prepares and follows up meetings, pays out subsidies and controls the approved projects, takes on accounting and reporting, as well as foundation supervision and financial management, the processing of asset transfers, asset investments, public relations and management.

Board of Trustees

• Reinhard Christian Zinkann , Chairman of the Board of Trustees (managing partner of Miele KG )
• Bernhard Bueb (theologian, pedagogue and author)
• Juliane Dillern (founder of the Panguana Foundation)
• Felicitas von Peter (managing partner and founder of Active Philanthropy, Berlin )
• Christa Rohde-Dachser (Founder of the Foundation for the Promotion of University Psychoanalysis)
• Ambros Schindler (Former Head of the German Foundation Center)
• Andreas Schlüter (General Secretary of the Donors' Association for German Science)
• Udo van Meeteren , honorary member of the Board of Trustees (founder of the van Meeteren Foundation)

Events

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A major event for donors is organized every year. Every three years (most recently in 2012), the Founders Day takes place with specialist lectures, a forum for the exchange of donors with one another and a reception at the Federal President. The donor dialogue takes place in the remaining years, most recently in November 2013. In addition, there are several event formats on relevant and current topics in the foundation sector, which are held nationwide several times a year.

German Foundation Academy

The German Foundation Academy (DSA) was created as an institution of the Stifterverband with its German Foundation Center and the Federal Association of German Foundations. The focus of the educational work lies in seminars, workshops and congresses as well as in certification courses for foundation advisers and foundation managers. Speakers from the Stifterverband and the German Foundation Center convey essential content and a. on foundation management as well as on legal questions of foundation activities.

Publications

• Annual report - The annual report reports on a financial year.
• Golden Series - This series of publications provides information on the subject of pens.
• Facts - reports briefly and concisely on current developments in the foundation sector in loose succession.
• The white row with comments on foundation law and legal treatises
• The black series with monographs on topics from the foundation sector published by the DSZ in Nomos-Verlag
• Books on the subject of foundation law by authors from the DSZ and the Stifterverband
• Stiftung & Sponsoring - Stiftung & Sponsoring is a specialist magazine for non-profit management and marketing that has existed since 1998.

Web links

• German Foundation Center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amtsgericht Essen, HRB 11674
2. ↑ The Board of Trustees of the German Foundation Center. In: German Foundation Center. Retrieved June 13, 2019 . 

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