North Rhine-Westphalia Environment and Development Foundation
The Foundation for Environment and Development North Rhine-Westphalia is a foundation that supports the implementation of Agenda 21 in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Goals and Organization
The foundation is committed to north-south dialogue , environmental and nature conservation, intercultural learning and fair trade . It is managed by a voluntary board of directors and a full-time office. The foundation was initiated in 2001 by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and is based in Bonn . The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the Prime Minister of the State Armin Laschet . The chairman of the board is the former president of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , Alfred Buss .
Bodies
Board
Chairman:
- Alfred Buß, Former President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia
Vice-chairman:
- Viktor Haase, Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Jürgen Hein , State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Udo Schlüter, Eine Welt Netz NRW
- Mark vom Hofe , State Association for Nature Conservation and Environment NRW
Board of Trustees
Chairman:
- Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
Vice-chairman:
- Christina Schulze-Föcking, Minister for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner , Minister for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Other members:
- Klaus Breyer, Evangelical Church of Westphalia
- Marie-Luise Fasse , German Forest Protection Association
- Christopher Grünewald, Gebr. Grünewald GmbH & Co. KG
- Renate Hendricks , SPD parliamentary group in NRW
- Andreas Hennig, Engagement Global gGmbH , North Rhine-Westphalia branch
- Elke Hülsmann, DGB-Bildungswerk NRW
- Tina Jerman, Exile-Kulturkoordination eV
- Ulrich Jost-Blome, Episcopal General Vicariate, World Church Department
- Paul Kröfges, BUND NRW
- Ulrike Mann
- Martin Michalzik, Wickede (Ruhr) municipality
- Reiner Nolten, West German Chamber of Crafts
- Anja Ritschel, City of Bielefeld
- Hanns-Jørg Rohwedder
- Norwich Rüße , Alliance 90 / The Greens parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Imme Scholz, German Development Institute
- Wolfgang Schuldzinski, consumer advice center in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Helmut Stahl , CDU parliamentary group in NRW
- Anke Valentin, Nature Conservation Union Germany , State Association of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Holger Vermeer, IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt
activity
The foundation supports non-profit organizations with project advice and financing. It promotes projects of environmental education, environmental protection and resource conservation, development education and information, intercultural and global learning and fair trade. Preferably, projects are funded in which environmental and development issues are linked, in which people volunteer and with which something is created that continues to have an effect after the funding has ended.
financing
The foundation receives its funds from tax revenue from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and from lottery proceeds, which are made available to it annually on the basis of budget decisions by the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the first eleven years of its existence, the foundation has supported over 900 projects with a total of around 41 million euros.