Filia. The women's foundation

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filia. the women's foundation
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legal form Non-profit foundation under civil law
founding 2001
founder Ise Bosch , Marita Haibach and seven other women
Seat Hamburg ( ⊙ coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 50.7 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 11.8 ″  E )
motto Transforming money +++ empowering women +++ changing the world
main emphasis Promotion of projects for women and girls worldwide
Action space International
people Sonja Schelper (Managing Director), Katrin Wolf (Deputy Managing Director, Public Relations)
Website www.filia-frauenstiftung.de

The filia.die women foundation is a non-profit foundation that promotes projects and organizations to improve the living conditions of women and girls, to expand the scope for action, to gain decision-making power and to enforce their rights.

History and goals

In 2001, nine women in Wiesbaden set up the community foundation with initial capital of 250,000 euros. In 2017, the foundation's capital was 16 million euros. Due to the financial crisis, the foundation switched fundraising in 2011 from a capital-supported to a donation-oriented foundation. It is one of the 6.2% of foundations under civil law in Germany with over 10 million euros in endowment capital. It is Germany's only foundation that promotes women's projects around the world and by far the largest foundation in Germany that is run by women and specifically promotes women's projects.

Funding goals are that women and girls can live non-violently and gain access to decision-making power and a fair distribution of resources. The focus is therefore on “freedom from violence” and “participation”.

As of 2017, 340 self-determined activities and projects by women and girls in 40 countries in different parts of the world have been funded. Around 80 percent of the funds go to projects worldwide and 20 percent of the funding goes to girls' projects in Germany.

With its Girls ' Empowerment Program (MPM) since 2012, filia has supported the UN General Assembly's decision on International Girls' Day and the clarification that the participation of girls in decisions that affect them is the key to breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence as well as promoting and protecting the full and effective exercise of their human rights. The implementation takes place through:

  1. that in Germany only projects by and for girls and young women are funded
  2. that the girls' council of young women between 14 and 24 decides which projects are funded
  3. that the girls' councils represent themselves and their perspectives in public.

For 2019, “Climate and Gender Equality” and “Women and Flight” will complement the existing priorities.

tasks

  • education and parenting
  • politics

as well as projects for women and girls worldwide, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe; Projects on political participation, sexual self-determination, anti-violence, combating trafficking in women, strengthening girls as leaders; Support of networks and the umbrella organization of international women's foundations.

Bodies

All women and girls in the committees work on a voluntary basis.

Annual meeting

Once a year in summer, donors, women from the committees and the filia team meet at the annual meeting. The successes and challenges of the past year are reported and discussed, and plans for the future are forged.

Board of Trustees

Every three years the active founders elect the seven women on the Board of Trustees. A search committee speaks to suitable women beforehand and can also be contacted by interested parties. The seven women on the Board of Trustees determine the foundation's policy and strategy and decide twice a year on the allocation of funds.

Board

The board members appoint the three women to the board. The board acts as an employer at filia. The women on the board represent the foundation in all contractual and legal matters and are responsible for the implementation of the decisions of the foundation board by the team at the office. The chair also works on the investment committee. The women on the executive board are appointed for three years.

Technical working groups

  • AG Central and Eastern Europe
  • filia girls' advisory board

Memberships

  • Prospera - International Network of Women's Funds (INWF)
  • Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
  • Wandelstifts, amalgamation of 16 foundations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History and vision of filia (as of December 2, 2018)
  2. ↑ Federal Association of German Foundations, 2018 (as of December 8, 2018)
  3. ↑ "It starts with pocket money", interview in Die Welt on March 8, 2016 (seen on December 8, 2018)
  4. ↑ filia funding goals (as of December 2, 2018)
  5. ↑ filia funding (as of December 2, 2018)
  6. ↑ UN Resolution A / RES / 66/170 of December 19, 2011
  7. ↑ filia girls empowerment program (as of December 2, 2018)
  8. ↑ Interview Day of the Foundation 2018 (seen on December 2, 2018)
  9. ↑ Hamburg foundation database (as of December 2, 2018)
  10. ↑ List of European women's foundations (as of December 8, 2018)
  11. ↑ Interview with filia program manager Claudia Bollwinkel (seen on December 2, 2018)
  12. ↑ Wandelstifte - Who we are (as of December 2, 2018)