Cooperative of workshops for disabled people center
The Cooperative of the Workshops for Disabled People Middle eG (GDW Mitte), formerly the Cooperative of the Workshops for Disabled People Hesse and Thuringia eG , based in Kassel, is a non-profit association of state-recognized workshops for disabled people (WfbM). In addition to its members, the GDW is also active for the other WfbMs in the federal states of Hesse , Thuringia , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland .
history
The Cooperative of Workshops for Disabled People Hessen and Thuringia eG was founded on June 19, 1995 by 17 workshop owners. In 2009, 42 institutions or workshop providers from Hesse , Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate were members of the cooperative . It was later merged with GDW Berlin-Brandenburg. In 2016 the merger with GDW North Rhine-Westphalia and the change of name to Cooperative of Workshops for Disabled People Middle eG were announced.
Cooperative purpose
The founding idea was to be able to offer customers such services with a network that a workshop cannot provide alone, such as B. a nationwide shredding of files . In addition, customers should be given the opportunity to access various services from different workshops from a single source without having to organize such joint projects themselves. In addition, the need was seen to achieve a transfer of know-how between the workshops through a merger.
The task of the cooperative consists u. a. in further training and information events for employees with disabilities and the specialist staff of the WfbM's. Another charitable task is to receive orders from customers from industry, trade, craft, public institutions and z. B. to acquire the banking sector for the workshops for disabled people and their affiliated integration companies and to coordinate the execution of the work and services. Since the main task of the GDW is to carry work into the workshops , the tax authority recognizes that the GDW exclusively and directly pursues tax-privileged purposes within the meaning of §§ 51 ff. Tax Code .
At the beginning of 2014, "53 ° NORD", an agency and publisher for the professional participation of disabled people, was taken over by the GDW.
activities
The GDW organizes advanced training events for the employees of the WfbMs, some of which are carried out together with sister companies and the Federal Working Group for Workshops for Disabled People (BAG: WfbM).
The range of services for commercial customers and public institutions includes all areas that are carried out by the WfbM's by employees with disabilities. Traditional work areas are the assembly , the assembly , the counting and Order , the packaging , the metal and wood processing and the gardening and landscaping ( GaLa ), the digital and offset printing , manufacture of advertising media, shipping and letter shop work , the electronic Archiving ( digitization , scanning ), catering as well as document destruction and electrical and electronic disposal according to ElektroG and WEEE .
The workshops and the GDW are recognized institutions within the meaning of SGB IX , the work performance of people with disabilities included in the services can therefore be offset in half against a severely disabled compensation tax, and the reduced VAT of 7% can also be partially shown.
Affiliated entities
The cooperative is integrated into a nationwide network of comparable companies, consisting of GAV Berlin gGmbH ( Berlin ), GfA Sachsen gGmbH ( Leipzig ), GDW Niedersachsen, Bremen, Sachsen-Anhalt eG ( Oschersleben ), GDW-Nord eG ( Rendsburg ), GDW NRW GmbH ( Essen ) and GDW-SÜD eG ( Sindelfingen ). At the Werkstätten: Messe in Nuremberg this network is i. d. Usually represented with a joint stand.
The members of this network operate a joint subsidiary, the Gesellschaft der Werkstätten für Behinderten Menschen gGmbH (Rendsburg), which primarily carries out the nationwide disposal of old electrical and electronic equipment in accordance with WEEE / ElektroG .
The members of this network work together with specialist workshop organizations, e.g. B. with the Federal Association of Workshops for Disabled People. In addition, there is a cooperation with the respective regional working groups of the workshops.
Awards
In 2012 the cooperative was a "Selected Location" of the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative .
Web links
- Official website
- Link collection of the BAG: WfbM with evidence of the "affiliated institutions"
- List of recognized workshops and sales companies (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GDWinfo. (PDF file; 2.8 MB) Cooperative of the workshops for disabled people Hessen and Thuringia eG, September 2016, p. 1 , accessed on April 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.53grad-nord.com/fileadmin/dokumente/newsletter2014/14-februar-1.html#a10 message from 53 degrees north
- ↑ http://www.bagwfbm.de/page/24 Source: BAG: WfbM
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Land of Ideas, 2012 award winners
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 24.7 ″ N , 9 ° 28 ′ 24 ″ E