Annual Award Förderpreis Aktive Bürgerschaft

Aktive Bürgerschaft arranges an annual competition for German community foundations who devise innovative and effective concepts to effect enduring social change. The award “Förderpreis Aktive Bürgerschaft“ aims to increase public and media awareness of the concept of community foundations and to highlight best practice.

Annual Report Community Foundations in Germany: Facts and Trends

Aktive Bürgerschaft does research on community foundations, e.g. on their financial development, their funding and their dissemination in Germany. The results are published in an annual report on the development of community foundations in Germany and in each of the federal states.

Community Foundation Days in the German States

Aktive Bürgerschaft develops custom tailored events on the topic of community foundations for the German states and local governments. For example, community foundation days have taken place in cooperation with the state governments of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate und Bavaria.

Community Foundations Online

The website www.buergerstiftungen.info discusses the concept of community foundations, provides information about the work of community foundations throughout Germany and offers useful downloadable materials for free.

Email Newsletter

The monthly newsletter „Aktive Bürgerschaft aktuell“ reports on community foundations, current developments and topics related to civic engagement.

Public Relations and Advocacy

Aktive Bürgerschaft regularly informs those involved in the media, politics, and business about community foundations and their current developments in order to communicate the commitment of community foundations in Germany and to improve the conditions in which they are working. Aktive Bürgerschaft publishes on the topic of community foundations and is involved in national and international discourse on community foundations and civic engagement, e.g. via the networks WINGS-CF and Community Philanthropy Initiative.