Support for changemakers2025-02-02T21:37:36+00:00

Building bridges to the future — together!

Let’s make the world a bet­ter place.
Get sup­port for your com­mu­ni­ty project.
Together we can achieve more!

Support

for changemakers

Our expe­ri­ence has taught us that there are many extra­or­di­nary char­i­ta­ble projects out there — and com­mit­ted peo­ple who bring them to life. These inspir­ing cre­ative sparks make the world a place worth liv­ing in.

bridgebuilder e.V. is a non-prof­it asso­ci­a­tion. We sup­port social, eco­log­i­cal or cul­tur­al projects free of charge. Are you part of such a project? Then secure our sup­port now!

How it works

How we support you

Look­ing back on many years of expe­ri­ence in cam­paign devel­op­ment and fundrais­ing, we sup­port emerg­ing ini­tia­tives or cam­paigns that are already underway:

  • We offer advice on the organ­i­sa­tion and devel­op­ment of campaigns.

  • We pro­vide tech­ni­cal sup­port for web and IT projects, for exam­ple, set­ting up online char­i­ty shops and launch­ing online fundrais­ing campaigns.

  • We help non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tions, asso­ci­a­tions and pri­vate indi­vid­u­als com­mit­ted to the com­mon good to suc­ceed — with our pro­fes­sion­al know-how we help kick-start your project.

  • Together we are build­ing a net­work for change­mak­ers who are address­ing impor­tant issues of the future.

How you get support

Which case applies to your project?

Case A

You represent an organisation that is recognised as a non-profit organisation in Germany.

  • We can pro­vide you with con­sul­ta­tion as well as organ­i­sa­tion­al and tech­ni­cal sup­port. All dona­tions will con­tin­ue to be han­dled direct­ly through your own organisation.

Case B

Your non-profit organisation is registered in another country.

  • We can sup­port you in an advi­so­ry, organ­i­sa­tion­al, tech­ni­cal and fundrais­ing capac­i­ty. This means that bridgebuilder e.V. can also col­lect dona­tions for our joint cam­paign, issue dona­tion receipts in Ger­many and for­ward the mon­ey to your non-prof­it organisation.

Case C

You would like to start a charitable project as a private individual.

  • We can sup­port your activ­i­ties in an advi­so­ry, organ­i­sa­tion­al, tech­ni­cal and finan­cial way. In any case, we will set up the project together and you will work in the name and on behalf of bridgebuilder e.V. bridgebuilder can then also col­lect dona­tions for our joint action.

Requirements

  • Your project is non-prof­it accord­ing to the legal definition.

  • Your project has already been ini­ti­at­ed or is ready to be launched. It is ambi­tious, real­is­tic, prac­tice-ori­ent­ed and already very mature.

  • You have a strong entre­pre­neur­ial per­son­al­i­ty: a will­ing­ness to take risks, per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty, self-man­age­ment and intrin­sic motivation.

The process

  • Step 1: Contact
    a) You briefly explain your project: moti­va­tion, overview of the key points, con­crete goals, etc.
    b) You describe to us where you need support.

  • Step 2: Meeting
    We meet (online) to get to know each oth­er and explore more con­crete­ly how we can cooperate.

  • Step 3: Agreement
    We con­clude a writ­ten agree­ment that pre­cise­ly reg­u­lates the type, scope, time frame and all oth­er details of our cooperation.

  • Step 4: Let’s get started!

* We only sup­port peo­ple who are ready to real­ly get start­ed with their project and who want to help oth­er peo­ple, the envi­ron­ment or soci­ety direct­ly and on a prac­ti­cal lev­el. We do not sup­port any vague ideas or the­o­ret­i­cal con­cepts. We also do not fund projects that are not tar­get­ed at peo­ple in need of help. Your appli­ca­tion should explain how bridgebuilder will help you achieve your char­i­ta­ble goals.

Our mission:

find a way into a live­able future

What kind of world do we want to live in?

While we are busy con­nect­ing the world with cables, destroy­ing ecosys­tems and mak­ing our­selves redun­dant in the face of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, we often for­get this ques­tion. All of this can be quite frus­trat­ing — and you may be won­der­ing where this will lead?

In our vision, the col­lec­tive over­load of cli­mate change, unjust dis­tri­b­u­tion of resources and dis­rup­tive tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ments is part of a gigan­tic devel­op­ment process. It is forc­ing us humans to reor­ga­nize our coex­is­tence and devel­op at a breath­tak­ing speed. Imag­ine the pos­si­bil­i­ty to trav­el freely through many coun­tries, equal access to edu­ca­tion for all sex­es, free­dom of expres­sion, a social sys­tem, work­ers’ rights, free choice of part­ner, same-sex mar­riage… All these social achieve­ments have devel­oped only recent­ly in human his­to­ry and we often take them for grant­ed (at least us Europeans).

But the sta­tus quo is far from per­fect — and for fur­ther devel­op­ment we need to under­stand the fol­low­ing: Humans are not only com­posed of their phys­i­cal bod­ies and their intel­lects - their emo­tions and their spir­i­tu­al­i­ty are equal parts with­in them.

About spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and meaning
Maybe the word “spir­i­tu­al­i­ty” makes you imag­ine hip­pies in sack­cloth sit­ting together in a cir­cle and talk­ing about their feel­ings. How­ev­er, we are con­cerned here with the entire world of life and work, which nowa­days often seems com­plete­ly soul­less: peo­ple are locked into auto­mat­ed process­es like cog­wheels and any­one who does not run smooth­ly is removed.

Recent­ly, how­ev­er, more and more “seri­ous” busi­ness peo­ple in suits are real­is­ing that remain­ing suc­cess­ful in this increas­ing­ly com­plex sys­tem requires new per­spec­tives. Being aware of the mean­ing of one’s own activ­i­ties and hav­ing access to one‘s emo­tions are becom­ing increas­ing­ly impor­tant in this con­text. After all, those who learn to recon­nect with their own and oth­ers’ emo­tions can deal more empa­thet­i­cal­ly with chal­lenges and together find solu­tions that could not be achieved cog­ni­tive­ly on their own.

Those who devel­op their own spir­i­tu­al­i­ty can estab­lish an active con­nec­tion to them­selves and all life and draw from this an enor­mous strength and moti­va­tion for their work.

Our task as bridge builders is to shape our lives and our work in a holis­tic and sus­tain­able way and thus open up new paths for oth­er peo­ple. We do not have ready-made solu­tions for this — but we do have tools that have been tried and test­ed in prac­tice! We use them to build exam­ples that com­bine tech­nol­o­gy and intel­li­gence with empa­thy and mean­ing. In this way, we trans­form rigid cog­wheel sys­tems into organ­i­cal­ly grow­ing liv­ing environments.

For a bet­ter under­stand­ing of how we envi­sion an orga­ni­za­tion of the future, we rec­om­mend Fred­er­ick Laloux’s book “Rein­vent­ing Organizations”. Have a look at this short video to get an idea of what it is about.

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Fre­quent­ly Asked Questions

Would you like to find out more about bridgebuilder.eu and the con­di­tions under which we will sup­port you? Then have a look at our FAQ section.

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