Osthushenrich Foundation
| Osthushenrich Foundation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Foundation, endowment |
| Seat | Gutersloh |
| founding | 2006
|
| Board | Werner Gehring , CEO; Martina Schwartz-Gehring, Deputy CEO; Ulrich Huettemann; Andreas Schlueter |
| executive Director | Burghard Lehmann |
| Website | Internet presence of the foundation |
The Osthushenrich Foundation is an independent foundation under private law within the meaning of Section 1 of the Foundation Act for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its seat in Gütersloh . It was founded in 2006 after the death of the founder Margot Gehring as the Osthushenrich Family Foundation and started its work in 2008. In 2017 it was renamed the Osthushenrich Foundation.
Foundation purpose
The foundation promotes the education and upbringing of children and young people in Ostwestfalen-Lippe . The purpose is achieved, for example, by
- Promotion of children and adolescents, especially the gifted, through special educational and upbringing offers, even in kindergarten,
- Implementation or support of education, qualification and upbringing measures, in particular for secondary school students and secondary school leavers, including support for their integration into professional life,
- Information and educational offers for parents to improve the professional and social integration of their children,
- Promotion of the teaching and improvement of knowledge of the German language for German and foreign children and young people.
In 2018 the “Osthushenrich Center for Gifted Research” was founded. It is located at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Bielefeld and will be supported with 300,000 euros until 2021.
Funding principles
The foundation is active and only supports institutions and facilities that are based in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The Osthushenrich Foundation is free to make funding decisions. In principle, the foundation acts upon written application; the funding results are published. The non-profit and earmarked use of funds and the documentation in public must be proven in the course of the project. From 2008 to 2018, the foundation funded around 1200 projects with a total of 8 million euros. Every year around 1.1 million euros are spent on the foundation's purpose.
Web links
- osthushenrich-stiftung.de Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Osthushenrich Foundation - Gütersloh. Retrieved July 10, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Gütersloher Osthushenrich Foundation looks back on its ten-year existence. Retrieved July 10, 2018 .