Our foundation

We redistribute for the benefit of all

Our social enterprise is responsibly owned and belongs to a charitable foundation, which redistributes the proceeds.

Every beer is a donation

Over 230 supported projects

We fund, where our beer is drunk. Our sponsored projects show the many ways in which commitment can contribute to the well-being of all.

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Attention, projects in Leipzig

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We support social projects.

Apply for our funding or decide who profits.

We fund projects, that support social participation. That means, we support especially projects that pursue inclusive goals and are open for and easy accessable by diverse people. We support with the money, that is gained by Quartiermeister beer. Everybody can apply. Our volunteers sight your application and decide which projects will take part in our Onlinevoting. In our Onlinevoting everybody can decide, which project gets the biggest funding.

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“The Quartiermeister funding program is simply fantastic: a social business where all the profits don't just go into someone's private pockets, but are given back to the community."

Adrian de Souza Martins, nepia e.V.

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Project funding - And that's how it works!

What do we fund?

We support projects and associations that are active in their immediate neighborhood and are committed to local social participation. The sponsors must pursue one or more of these purposes (recognized as charitable by the tax office) (see tax code §52):

Arts and culture
Education
Help for refugees, people with disabilities, people who are disadvantaged because of their gender
Volunteering

You must describe in your application how you will pursue these goals.

What is important?

We have criteria that helps us to make the right decision. It is important that your project meets these criteria. These are the criteria:

Your project must have a local impact.
Your project must empower people.
Your project is aimed at many different people. It’s easy to participate in the project.
Your project wants to sustain and be effective for a long time.
Your project begins after online voting. Only then you spend the money.
that fits with our statute (please refer “application”

The criteria as Download

Where do we fund?

We fund where our beer is drunk. We fund in Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden.

But we also fund in larger regions outside of these cities. These are the regions:

Eastern Region (This includes Sachsen, Brandenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Thüringen)
Southern Region (Bayern, Baden-Württemberg and the city of Vienna in Austria)
West Region (Hamburg, Bremen, Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz)

Funding is provided once a year (with application deadlines) in every City and region. Every region has a Deadline and a specific application form.

Current Calls for Application

How can you apply?

You can apply by using an online application form. This form is also available in simple german and English. You need all in all about 2 hours to fill our application form.

How do we decide?

Volunteers will check your application. They decide which four projects are included in the voting. This projects then take part in a public voting. The voting takes place on our homepage. Everyone can give a vote there. The projects with the most votes get the most money. All projects in the voting receive between €500 and €2,000.

How can you spend the money?

You can buy something new or use the money to pay ongoing costs (e.g. rent). You can use the funding where there is a lack of money. In case you are an official NGO, you recieve the funding as a classical donation. If you are not a formalized german NGO, you will receive the money as private donation (pay attention for taxes). In both cases we create funding agreements. There you assure the lawful use of our funding. You don’t have to send us any receipts afterwards. We trust you and visit your project personally

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Application Example (in german)

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Our Criteria (in german)

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Questions, that are not answered here? Contact me!

Lisa Wiedemuth

Mail: foerderung@quartiermeister.org

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