Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany

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Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany
(SEND eV)
logo
legal form registered association
purpose Association of German Social Enterprises
Seat Berlin
founding 2017

place Berlin
Board Markus Sauerhammer (1st board member)
Laura Haverkamp, ​​Birgit Heilig, Sabrina Konzok, Sally Ollech, Julia Post, Philipp von der Wippel
Manager Katrin Elsemann
Members 450
Website www.send-ev.de

The Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany (SEND) is a registered association based in Berlin and an interest group of the German social entrepreneur industry. It was founded in 2017 as the representative office and political voice of social enterprises in Germany . The association offers networking for social enterprises, giving the sector more visibility and representing their interests in relation to politics. SEND cooperates with the Federal Association of German Startups .

founding

SEND was founded in 2016 as a social entrepreneurship working group within the Federal Association of German Startups. In the run-up to the 2017 Bundestag elections , the association was founded as an independent interest group in order to gain more political attention for the Bundestag election through election test stones . Then, in 2018, social entrepreneurship was first mentioned in the coalition agreement.

Members

In 2020, the association has over 450 members, including well-known social enterprises and organizations such as ArbeiterKind.de , the Ashoka Foundation Germany, betterplace.org , Chanceswerk , Das macht Schule , Ecosia , GemüseAckerdemie , the Hans Sauer Foundation , the Impact Hubs Berlin, Bremen and Ruhr, Joblinge , Kiron Open Higher Education , Mobile Retter , Nebenan.de , Phineo , ProjectTogether , querstadtein , the Social Entrepreneurship Academy , Social Impact , Triodos Bank , Viva con Agua or youvo.org .

Association work

The association is organized nationwide, there are also regional groups in Bavaria , Berlin , Hamburg , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony . SEND calls, among other things, for better financing options for social start-ups, as well as a reduction in the start-up hurdles. SEND is financially supported by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt , the KfW Foundation and the Schöpflin Foundation , among others .

At the beginning of 2019, SEND published a joint position paper with the Federal Association of German Start-ups and the welfare associations AWO , Red Cross , Caritas , Diakonie and the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany , calling for stronger cooperation between the NGO and start-up sector.

For the 2019 European elections , SEND published election test stones to the European parties , in cooperation with social entrepreneurship associations from 11 EU countries.

SEND is co-initiator of Entrepreneurs for Future .

In October 2019, the association asked for the total of between 2 and 9 billion euros on dormant bank accounts in Germany to be used to set up a fund to promote sustainable and social innovations. Financial politicians from the FDP and the Greens welcomed the idea.

In 2020, SEND was one of the initiators of the world's largest hackathon WirVsVirus of the federal government for projects against the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic .

German Social Entrepreneurship Monitor

Since 2018, SEND has been publishing the German Social Entrepreneurship Monitor (DSEM), based on the German Start-up Monitor of the Federal Association of German Startups , as a study on the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Germany. For the first time, the attempt was made to collect extensive data on social enterprises and social start-ups in Germany. For the German Social Entrepreneurship Monitor 2018, 210 social enterprises and founders were surveyed. A new edition appeared in 2019, which among other things called for a separate legal form for social entrepreneurship.

Web links

Individual evidence

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