Phineo

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PHINEO
legal form non-profit public company
founding December 2009
founder Andreas Rickert, Daniel Rahaus, Klaus Becker
Seat Berlin
motto so that engagement works
main emphasis Analysis and consulting company for effective social engagement
sales 18,269,812 euros (2018)
Employees 59 (2018)
Website www.phineo.org

Phineo is an analysis and consulting company in the legal form of a non-profit stock corporation based in Berlin .

Organization and financing

The organization was founded in 2009 by Klaus Becker, Daniel Rahaus and Andreas Rickert after two years of preparatory work. The non-profit corporation has been operational since May 2010. It is financed primarily through shareholders and sponsoring partners. Shareholders and financiers are the Bertelsmann Foundation , Deutsche Börse , the Schöpflin Foundation , KPMG , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Warth & Klein Grant Thornton AG and a private person.

Idea partners are the Active Citizenship , the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the non-profit organization New Philanthropy Capital. The strategic partners are the German Donation Council and the Charité Foundation .

The full-time executive board consists of Andreas Rickert and Klaus-Dieter Becker. The management board is controlled by the voluntary supervisory board . The general meeting of the stock corporation makes resolutions . There is also a voluntary advisory board .

Phineo is a member of the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany and one of the sponsors of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .

aims

The aim of the organization is to create transparency about the structures and effects of charitable work. This is intended to enable foundations , companies, private donors and the general public, but also non-profit organizations , to act in a more impact-oriented manner and to achieve more for society. Non-profit organizations, for example, receive free advice and guidance on how to make more impact. By presenting effective “lighthouse projects” in many civil society sub-areas, the company also pursues the goal of civil society growing in numbers.

Analytical method

The Phineo-Analysis is a procedure to assess the impact and the success of charitable activities in the opinion of the company. Organizations are evaluated in terms of their performance and the potential impact of their projects. The analysis consists of a four-step process. The process is open to non-profit organizations of all types and sizes. The analysis is free of charge and financed by the donors. Organizations that successfully complete the process receive the Wirkt seal, a free donation seal .

Donation seal

PHINEO active seal

The company has been awarding a donation seal since 2010 , the Act seal. Non-profit organizations receive the “Wirkt” seal after a thorough analysis of their potential impact. In June 2020, around 300 organizations carried the Wirkt seal. Awards include Klasse2000 , Big Brothers Big Sisters Germany, HIPPY Germany, wellcome , Parents as Teachers , Education Y , Work and Box Company , Seniorpartner in School , Balu und Du , Terre des Femmes , SchlaU-Schule , Joblinge and ROCK YOUR LIFE ! .

Topic reports

The company regularly publishes so-called “topic reports”, in which civil society engagement in the various areas of society as well as particularly effective charitable projects are presented. Topics included inclusion for people with disabilities, climate protection , child poverty, musical education, integration , STEM education , health issues and engagement against right-wing extremism . Here Phineo works together with partners such as the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , Pfizer , Bundesliga Foundation , Children for a better World and the social heroes .

Germany rounds up

The company has been analyzing pro bono since 2011 all projects received as part of the donation campaign Germany rounds to donations . The funded projects have so far raised around 10 million euros in donations (as of April 30, 2020).

Scale initiative

In April 2016 Phineo and the German entrepreneur Susanne Klatten launched the SKala initiative . The Skala Initiative supports 95 non-profit organizations nationwide with a funding volume of currently around 88 million euros (as of August 2019). We support organizations that are proven to have a great social impact .

Effect transparency

By the end of 2016, Phineo published, among other things, three extensive studies on the transparency of effects of large and well-known donation organizations in Germany. 2012 in cooperation with Capital magazine , 2014 and 2016 with Spiegel Online .

criticism

The organization has met with criticism for its proximity to economic and financial institutions. The focus on the subject of “transparency of effects” is also viewed critically.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Sponsors of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative. In: Initiative Transparent Civil Society. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Website of VENRO - Association of Development Policy and Humanitarian Aid , transparency initiatives on the Internet, accessed on March 27, 2015
  6. ↑ Wilke, Burkhard: The impact debate using the example of PHINEO , in: Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement (20/2010), accessed on March 27, 2015
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  8. ↑ Florian Diekmann, Christian Rickens: Demand for regulation: "The non-profit sector is non-transparent". In: Spiegel Online . November 20, 2013, accessed March 17, 2015 .
  9. ↑ The Phineo Analysis Method, website from www.phineo.org, accessed on March 27, 2015
  10. ^ German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) , accessed on March 27, 2015
  11. ↑ Donor advice - German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) , accessed on March 27, 2015
  12. ↑ Award-winning donation projects, website from www.phineo.org, accessed on June 24, 2020
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  14. ^ Website of the Peter Ustinov Foundation , accessed on March 27, 2015
  15. ↑ Awarded against right , Netz- gegen-Nazis.de, accessed on March 27, 2015
  16. ↑ a b website of Germany rounds up. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  17. ^ Website of Germany rounds up. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  18. ↑ www.skala-initiative.de , website of the donation initiative, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  19. ↑ BMW heiress: Susanne Klatten plans to donate millions , Spiegel Online, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  20. ↑ The donation revolution of the silent billionaire , Welt.de, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  21. ↑ Why BMW heiress Klatten is donating 100 million euros , RBB-online.de, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  22. ↑ Ranking list: The big donation organizations work so transparently , Spiegel Online, November 28, 2014, accessed on March 27, 2015
  23. ↑ Transparency test: The ranking of the 50 top donation organizations , Spiegel Online, November 28, 2014, accessed on March 27, 2015
  24. ↑ Transparency of Organizations: The Big Donation Check , Spiegel Online, November 30, 2016, accessed on September 12, 2017
  25. ↑ Many shortcomings in large donation organizations , at www.focus.de, November 15, 2012, accessed on March 27, 2015
  26. ↑ Who really does good when they do good? , Der Paritätische Berlin, accessed on March 27, 2015
  27. ↑ A criticism of the idealization of effect transparency , at http://wigwam.im , accessed on March 27, 2015