Social heroes

Social heroes e. V.
legal form	non-profit registered association
founding	2004
founder	Raul Krauthausen , Jan Mörsch
Seat	Berlin
people	Raul Krauthausen, Holger Dieterich
Employees	19 (2019)
Website	Sozialhelden.de

The social hero e. V. is a registered, non-profit association with its headquarters in Berlin . He organizes a network of volunteers who work for social justice through various campaigns . The association finances itself primarily through participation in competitions and donations from foundations or private donors. The initiative has received several national and international awards since 2008.

aims

The aim of the association is to make social action attractive and visible. He wants to arouse awareness of social grievances, sensitize people to social problems and show options for action instead of arousing pity.

Projects

With the Pfandtastisch help project , where supermarket customers can donate deposit vouchers, more than 100,000 euros are collected annually, which are donated to the Berliner Tafel . Other aid projects are also supported by Pfandtastisch help . The project is active nationwide.

The Wheelmap.org project is an internet platform for wheelchair-accessible places. In the open database, volunteers can mark certain places (such as cafés, cinemas or other shops) as wheelchair accessible, partially wheelchair accessible or not wheelchair accessible with the help of a traffic light system. The project became known nationally through a TV commercial sponsored by Google , and smartphone users can also access apps for iOS and Android while on the move .

The GUTschein zum GUTsein project has existed since 2011 , in which you can give people who you have done something good a GUTschein to motivate them to do good things to others. The recipient can report the story of the voucher online on a specially set up website, which can be identified by a number printed on it. In this way, the path of the vouchers can be followed, and each voucher tells its own story, provided that all recipients put their story online.

At the Re: publica 2012 web conference in May 2012, the social heroes presented the BrokenLifts.org project . The aim of the project is to create a central platform on which visitors can find out about the operating status of elevators in public transport. Since November 2011, hourly elevator fault information from the Berlin S-Bahn and the Berlin Transport Company (BVG) has been called up and analyzed as a database . On October 8, 2014, a revised version of the service was presented in cooperation with the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg , S-Bahn Berlin GmbH and Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe. The elevators report their operating status to the service, which displays the failed elevators on the project's website. In addition, defective elevators are also displayed in the VBB's online timetable information. For the time being, the project is regionally limited to the Berlin area, but the aim is to collect data across regions.

On August 16, 2012, the association, in collaboration with the Robert Bosch Foundation, made the Leidmedien.de project public. The project, which was developed in collaboration with several journalists, is aimed at reporters from the press, radio and other media and provides assistance on which idioms and empty phrases can be used without stigmatizing those affected . The aim is to sensitize journalists and the public to rethink common clichés and to check whether people with disabilities are reduced to their deficits and thus devalued. The social heroes emphasize that Leidmedien.de is not intended to teach, but rather to show new perspectives and provide assistance.

In cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), the SOZIALHELDEN eV organized an international mapping day on December 3, 2015 under the campaign name MapMyDay.org . People all over the world were called on to mark places on the Wheelmap that are wheelchair accessible on this day . The campaign was one of several worldwide actions on the occasion of the International Day of People with Disabilities . The aim was to collect data and to make people aware of accessibility. At the end of the multi-day campaign, over 20,000 new locations had been marked.

List of projects

Surname	target	begin	status
To help out in the hand	Donation boxes for deposit vouchers for charitable purposes	2006	active
Wheelmap.org	Online map for wheelchair accessible places	2010	active
VOUCHER to be GOOD	Illustrate good deeds with numbered, traceable voucher	2011	active
Brokenlifts.org	Data collection on breakdowns of elevators in local and long-distance public transport	2012	active
Leidmedien.de	Raising the awareness of journalists about reporting on disabilities	2012	active
A thousand and one ramps	Distribution of wheelchair ramps financed by donations to shops and restaurants	2012	active

Awards

• In 2016, the social heroes were awarded the Ruderman Prize in Inclusion by the Ruderman Foundation for the Leidmedien.de project .
• In 2016, the association was awarded the German Mobility Prize for the BrokenLifts.org project .
• In 2015, the association received prize money from Microsoft for the Wheelmap.org project as part of the #UpgradeYourWorld competition .
• In 2014, the Wheelmap.org project received the Smart Hero Award in the category Social Coexistence and Voluntary Commitment , which is presented in cooperation with Facebook and the Digital Opportunities Foundation .
• In 2013, the social heroes received the Zedler Prize for free knowledge in the External Knowledge Project of the Year category from Wikimedia Germany for the Wheelmap.org project .
• In 2013, co-founder Raul Krauthausen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs , Ursula von der Leyen , for his commitment to social heroes .
• In 2012, the Wheelmap.org project was recognized as the winner in the Mobile Inclusion & Empowerment category at the World Summit Award .
• 2012 Sozialhelden for the project received Wheelmap.org the award German Directory Media Prize 2012 . The prize is awarded by the Association of German Information and Directory Media e. V. and was presented by the chairman of the FDP parliamentary group, Rainer Brüderle .
• In 2011 the association received the Vodafone Smart Accessibility Award 2011 for the Wheelmap.org project
• 2011 Sozialhelden for the project received Wheelmap.org the award Selected Landmark 2011 in the Land of Ideas . The prize is awarded by the initiative “Germany - Land of Ideas” under the patronage of the Federal President.
• In 2010, the association was awarded the INCA bronze award for the Wheelmap app.
• In 2010 the project Wheelmap.org der Sozialhelden was awarded the VZ Award, the audience award of the German Citizens' Prize.
• In 2009 the social heroes won the audience prize of the German Engagement Prize and were awarded the special prize of the KarmaKonsum Gründer-Award for their Pfandtastisch help project .
• In 2008, the Pfandtastisch help project was named one of eight national winners from startsocial , a competition for social ideas and projects.

Web links

• Social heroes website
• Pfandtastisch help - website of the Pfandbon donation campaign
• Wheelmap.org - website of the campaign for a map of accessible places
• BrokenLifts.org - Website with an overview of the operating status of public transport elevators
• Leidmedien.de - website of the project Leidmedien.de - reporting on people with disabilities

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Be a hero - waive the pledge of December 6, 2009.
2. ↑ Wheelmap - Where is Germany wheelchair accessible? Golem.de, October 22, 2010.
3. ↑ Wheelmap.org - iOS app
4. ↑ Wheelmap.org - Android app
5. ↑ Homepage of the GUTschein project ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ VOUCHER STORIES ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2011 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. , accessed March 27, 2015 
7. ↑ Sozialhelden.de - Presentation BrokenLifts.org ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2012 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. , accessed March 27, 2015 
8. ↑ The app is finally looking up again , article in the BZ , accessed on March 27, 2015
9. ↑ Barrier-free information - now also with elevator malfunctions ( memento of the original dated April 2, 2015 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. - vbb.de, accessed on March 27, 2015 
10. ↑ The blind do not live in darkness - taz.de, accessed on March 27, 2015
11. ↑ What we want ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Leidmedien.de, accessed on March 27, 2015 
12. ↑ MapMyDay: Global campaign by social heroes and WHO for more awareness of barriers in everyday life. In: OpenPR.de . Retrieved November 24, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Announcing the 2016 Ruderman Prize in Inclusion Winners! ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2017 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. (English), accessed on August 8, 2017 
14. ↑ BrokenLifts.org - Platform for elevator failure information , accessed August 8, 2017
15. ↑ Microsoft honors outstanding volunteer work in Germany , news.microsoft.com, accessed on August 8, 2017
16. ↑ The Smart Hero Award winners 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , accessed March 27, 2015 
17. ↑ Wikimedia Blog
18. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Raul Krauthausen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - ARD Mediathek (video), accessed on April 11, 2013  
19. ↑ World Summit Award - Winners ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2016 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. 
20. ↑ German Directory Media Prize 2012 - The winners at vdav.de (accessed on July 31, 2012)
21. ↑ Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards 2011 winners announced! ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 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. (April 11, 2013). 
22. ↑ Free paths with a click of the mouse ( memento of the original dated November 11, 2013 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. - An online portal bundles knowledge about accessible places. 
23. ↑ Winners of the INCA Award 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 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. 
24. ↑ See the press release of the German Citizens Award.
25. ↑ Giving gives. Alliance for Engagement: Engagement Prize 2009
26. ↑ KarmaKonsum Founder Award 2009 .
27. ↑ startsocial: Bundessieger 2008: Sixth round of the competition for social ideas and projects  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .