We believe in you and your team as individuals who can make a difference. As an expert in your field, you know best what needs to be done. Which is why, when it comes to funding, we focus on the people behind the organisation. After all, you and your team need to be healthy and happy in order to put your all into your work and achieve your vision. For this purpose, we can provide your team with a health and wellness budget, for example, or offer internal and external workshops on how to optimally increase and utilise your capacity.

We know: There are always hierarchical disparities in the relationship between foundations and the organisations they fund. But there shouldn’t be! After all, both sides – foundations and NGOS – bring something valuable to the table: On the foundation side, this can be (financial) support, a network, or serving as a sparring partner. In return, nonprofit organisations offer not only creative power and drive, but also an incredible amount of expertise and inspiration.
 

We see our working relationships as true partnerships – ones that are built on trust. That is why we always start out with an initial get-to-know-you phase in order to establish trust before moving on to more long-term funding. As a young foundation, we’ve set ambitious goals for ourselves. And to achieve them, we need honest criticism and feedback from our partner organisations. We want to continually challenge ourselves to improve our strategy, and if our partners feel that something isn’t working, we want them to tell us in no uncertain terms.

As a foundation, we want to move away from project-based funding and towards long-term, unallocated support for our partner organisations. This requires a great deal of trust on both sides, and it takes time to get there. We admit that we have not reached our goal yet; however, we began issuing our first unallocated funding in 2024.

We support organisations that are working to transform how we eat from farm to table. There are overlaps between our organisations, and not just in terms of focus. The first-ever meet-up of our partner organisations in 2023 showed that the organisations also have a lot in common in terms of their day-to-day work, challenges and successes. As a result, we have implemented a monthly meeting for communicators from the different teams.

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We not only try to strengthen our internal network, but are also active in the following networks:

• We are a member of Vertrauen macht Wirkung

• We are involved in the EFSAF-Group of Philea

• We are a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations.