Hannchen Multipurpose Foundation

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The Hannchen-Mehr Zweck-Stiftung (HMS) is a non-profit foundation under civil law based in Berlin , which has set itself the task of supporting cultural and emancipatory projects of the lesbian and gay movement. The HMS is subject to foundation supervision by the Berlin Senate Department for Justice in accordance with the provisions of the Berlin Foundation Act. In 2013 the subtitle of the foundation was changed to “the gay and lesbian foundation for queer movements”; this acknowledged the fact that in the previous years there had been an increasing number of applications from the LGBTIQ area ; In 2014, the purpose of the foundation was expanded in this regard.

history

Andreas Meyer-Hanno , gay activist ("Hannchen Mehr Zweck"), university professor and opera director, made large parts of his private assets available in 1991 as foundation capital for the establishment of HMS. The foundation was established in the same year.

Meyer-Hanno was closely connected to the German gay movement and, for decades, pursued the goal of expanding the social scope of action for lesbians and gays and permanently consolidating the foundations for an emancipatory lesbian and gay movement.

He was involved in the founding of various organizations and initiatives. In addition to the HMS, Homosexual Self-Help eV is of particular importance. It can be regarded as the predecessor organization of the HMS and was launched in 1980. The two organizations work closely together.

After his death in 2006, Andreas Meyer-Hanno considered the HMS in his will; Together with additional endowments and an inheritance in 2016, the foundation capital now amounts to over 2 million euros. The foundation's investment strategy is based on two principles: maintaining the value of the foundation's assets and the sustainability of the investment. Since 2011, hms has been participating in the Transparent Civil Society initiative, whose participants undertake to disclose in a certain format which goals their organization is pursuing, where the funds come from, how they are used and who makes the decisions.

Funding by the HMS

As a non-profit foundation, the HMS only supports applications from organizations that have been recognized as non-profit and particularly worthy of support, usually registered associations from the area of ​​the lesbian and gay movement. In 2014, the purpose of the statutes of the HMS was expanded to include the passage "Education about the phenomenon of homosexuality always includes dealing with gender categories such as transgender and intersexuality." to let.

HMS obtains the funds from the foundation's investment income and from donations that are tax-deductible. Funding of around 40,000 euros is currently distributed annually. The grant per project is usually between 500 and 5,000 euros. Since the foundation was founded, more than 400 projects have been supported with around 600,000 euros (as of January 2018).

The funds are awarded exclusively as grants, the content of the funding applications must be covered by the foundation's purpose. The foundation's award guidelines stipulate that the applicants have to contribute their own contributions to the project, which must be fully taken into account in the settlement. Application forms can be downloaded from the HMS website.

The proportion of applications from a broad spectrum of the LGBTIQ movement has grown steadily over the years compared to applications from the gay movement. The composition of the foundation's board of directors has changed accordingly: it now includes a lesbian woman, three gay men and a queer trans man.

A thematic fund was set up in 2006 through a donation from the historian Wolfram Setz : the Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Fund. With the proceeds of this fund and earmarked donations, HMS supports initiatives to research, document and present the history of homosexuals .

The David Kato Fund was set up in 2013 through a donation from Josef Schnitzbauer . The focus of this fund is on educating people about the situation of LGBTIQ people in countries with persecution pressure and supporting people and groups who are fighting homophobia in these countries.

Funded projects (examples)

  • Coming-out advice line in Duisburg
  • Erection of the Frankfurter Angel , the memorial to the persecution of homosexuals on Klaus-Mann-Platz in Frankfurt am Main
  • Michael Schmidpeter Prize , competition at Bavarian schools on the subject of homosexuality, hosted by: Jugendnetzwerk Lambda Bayern eV
  • Youth creative competition Hands of Courage against homophobia 2008 and 2009, host: Maneo ( Mann-O-Meter eV , Berlin)
  • Egohelden , a youth play about discrimination and exclusion of gay youth in schools and sports clubs in 2008
  • Project weeks against homophobia in school , 2010
  • Çürük / The Turkish Disease, a documentary by Ulrike Böhnisch, 2011 www.curuk-film.de
  • Symposium "Love without borders !? Homosexuality, Culture, Migration "2012 (network of lesbian and gay groups in Bielefeld eV)
  • “I wanted to be as normal as others. Walter Guttmann tells his life ”(edited by Michael Bochow and Andreas Pretzel ), Academy Waldschlösschen, 2012
  • Financial support for emancipation work for same-sex lovers in Malawi (2013)
  • Conference on "Family counts! Lesbian, gay, straight, bi, trans * - the main thing is happy!" (2013)
  • Scientific and cultural accompanying program for the Queer Film Weeks 2013
  • Int. Conference for police officers from Europe and LGBTTIQ organizations; Main topics: homophobia and transphobia as well as the living situation of LGBTTIQ people in Eastern Europe (2014)
  • "Gold for equal rights" conference on the situation of LGBT and people with HIV in Russia (2014)
  • Trans * in old age (2014)
  • Trans * Visible - knowledge and support for acceptance - against violence (2015)
  • Event: IsLove - Desire & Sexuality in Islam (2015)
  • Establishment of an LGBTI communication center with an office in Malawi / Blantyre (2016)
  • Theater "Njakungula (I will get up!)", Paris (2016)
  • We survived anti-gay laws! - Symposium on criminal prosecution and legal political processing of anti-homosexual legislation (2017)
  • Homosexuality and trans identity as a reason for escape. An awareness project for social workers, volunteers and security (2017)
  • Exhibition "In the Name of the People !?" / §175 through the ages (2018)
  • "Queens Of Eastern Europe" - photo project on drag activism in eight Eastern European countries (2018)

organs

The HMS is managed by a purely voluntary board; This is controlled in its award decisions by the HMS Foundation Advisory Board. The board of directors decides on the allocation of funds in regular meetings.

The advisory board, which is also active on a voluntary basis, is made up of seven personalities from the lesbian and gay movement, including - in accordance with the requirements of the foundation statutes - the members of the board of Homosexual Self-Help eV; the advisory board is u. a. responsible for the election and dismissal of board members and sets guidelines for the allocation of foundation funds and the investment of the foundation's assets.

The Board of Directors (2015):

The Advisory Board (2018):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://hms-stiftung.de/web/sites/hms-stiftung-chronik.php
  2. ↑ Transparent civil society initiative
  3. ^ Michael Schmidpeter Prize
  4. ↑ MANEO Creative Prize Hands of Courage 2009
  5. ↑ [1]

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