Sustainability

Black Female Business is the first business network that connects Black women*, inspires them, makes them visible and helps them grow. Our diverse community offers Black women* access to knowledge, creative exchange and the necessary professional and personal development to achieve sustainable success. To achieve this, we bring together the skills of Black women* in professional life from all industries and different levels of experience - whether they are employed, (prospective) founders, entrepreneurs or solo self-employed.

Brand New Bundestag (BNB) is an independent and non-partisan grassroots organization that advocates for progressive, forward-looking politics. We support people who bring a breath of fresh air to Parliament with progressive ideas on their way into political office. We want Parliament to represent all the people in our society. In order to build this reality, we build a bridge between civil society and politics so that the voices of movements are included in political decision-making. To this end, we create places of networking between different actors and ensure that we shape a future worth living together, with innovation and pragmatism. For you. For me. For all of us.

CORRECTIV is a media organization oriented towards the public good. We strengthen democracy through journalism, media education, and technology. As an award-winning non-profit newsroom, we shine a spotlight on power and injustices, expose disinformation, and provide arguments and methods for all those who want to participate in shaping their environment.

Since 2015, Hanseatic Help e.V. has acted as a collection point for donations in kind, a social logistics centre, a network partner and a meeting place for a wide range of people. The promotion of civic engagement, intercultural encounters and social participation are important core concerns. Through Hanseatic Help, more than 300 charitable institutions and, in the Hanseatic Help Stores, needy private individuals are supplied with clothing and hygiene donations free of charge and according to their needs. What is not needed locally is sent to crisis regions around the world. For donations in kind that cannot be used in the charitable sector, Hanseatic Help develops recycling concepts in the sense of a sustainable circular economy.

We believe that Africa is a continent of the future, and we exist to make its markets work for a better world. We challenge the way development aid is done, by using the tools of business to create social change. As a non-profit organization based in Germany, Kenya and Ethiopia, we convert donations into equity investments for African start-ups to create jobs. We find local founders with local ideas for local markets, and provide them with financial, technical and operational support so that they can use their own strength to grow and create jobs.

The core idea of MI4People is to create AI applications through applied research and the use of highly skilled volunteers to help solve humanitarian, social, and environmental problems in our world and thereby catapult the public good sector into the AI age. Our projects range from using AI to locate marine plastic and better include blind and visually impaired people to improving the diagnosis of rare diseases in children and improving healthcare in developing countries. MI4People aims not only to develop pure AI for the public good, but to make it ready for use. All our projects are open source.

Queermentor is the first 360° support program for the LGBTQIA community and allies that covers all dimensions of diversity. As a non-profit organization, we support people from the LGBTQIA community in their professional and personal development and are committed to equal opportunities in the job market. As a Queermentor funding partner, companies can actively support the queer community, for example through corporate volunteering or employee/management training. Queermentor was founded in 2021 by Pavlo Stroblja. Since then, our community has been growing every day and we are constantly developing our platform.

score4impact: Match-maker for measurable Social Impact! As a non-profit limited company, we plan & build bridges: Between companies that want to engage effectively and measurably in the area of social impact and customized projects with which they aim to achieve concrete positive change in the society. Like a matchmaking service between purpose & profit.

Sea-Watch e.V. is a non-profit initiative dedicated to civilian sea rescue in the Central Mediterranean. In the face of an ongoing and state-initiated humanitarian catastrophe, we provide acute emergency aid with our ships Sea-Watch 5 & Aurora and our aircraft Seabird 1 & Seabird 2. We try to save as many people as possible from drowning. Sea-Watch has so far been involved in the rescue of over 45,000 people on the move We publicly stand up for legal escape routes, freedom of movement and a Europe based on solidarity. Sea-Watch is politically and religiously independent and is financed exclusively by donations.

Social Impact Award (SIA) is one of the world's largest support programs for young people who drive the transformation towards an environmentally sustainable and socially just society with equal access to opportunities for all. Since 2009 we have been empowering young people to start impact-driven entrepreneurial journeys in our international community in over 25 countries in Europe, Africa and Central Asia to develop innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. We empower youth to realise their potential for change, develop the self-confidence and the necessary skills to actively shape our future and connect them with like-minded people, experts and decision-makers from our international community.

The Surfrider Foundation is a global non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of lakes, rivers, oceans, waves and coasts. Through a strong team of motivated ocean lovers and an indispensable network of volunteers organized in chapters, we are able to make a difference through collective action. Our work focuses on the issues of marine litter, water quality and climate change and the resulting changes to coastal areas. In 2024, our focus will therefore include quantifiable clean ups, water testing, Europe-wide lobbying as well as local and international campaigns.

Tausche Bildung für Wohnen is offering free housing in shared flats for people who want to make a difference. In Hamburg-Steilshoop, a district that is structurally disadvantaged, they offer educational and freetime activities for school kids.

Women & LGBTQ+ individuals face pervasive physical, verbal, and non-verbal harassment in streets worldwide. Crime and sexual harassment in public areas stems from various factors, with urban planning and city design playing a pivotal but overlooked role. In UrbView, we are dedicated to development of an AI technology to identify urban planning errors contributing to crime occurrences. Our solution empowers urban planning firms and government in creation of inclusive and safe cities for all.

Visions for Children e.V. is a registered non-profit organization from Hamburg. Our work focuses on the improvement of learning conditions and educational quality at schools in areas of conflict and war zones. For this purpose, school buildings and sanitary facilities are being improved, classrooms are being equipped with fundamental supplies and students as well as teachers are being provided with essential materials. By providing additional training and workshops, we further strive to strengthen the capacities of our target groups in project countries such as Afghanistan und Uganda. We thus provide the basic conditions necessary for high-quality learning in line with the fourth sustainability goal of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030.