Support social engagement that connects knowledge, people, and organizations around the world.
Volunteering requires more than just dedicated people. Volunteers contribute their time, knowledge, and labor without pay. However, professional structures are needed to ensure that this commitment reaches the places where it is actually needed.
AMAIDI identifies the support needs of nonprofit organizations, finds suitable volunteers, and facilitates the partnership. Behind every successful volunteer placement lies a great deal of organizational work: project development, partner screening, matching, preparation, coordination, support, and quality assurance.
These services incur costs—regardless of whether a volunteer helps out for one day or several months.
Foundation grants make it possible to finance these necessary structures and provide volunteers with opportunities to get involved at no cost.
This allows more people to contribute their skills and enables nonprofit organizations to benefit from professional support.
AMAIDI facilitates various forms of civic engagement—tailored to individual needs, time frames, and available skills. With your support, you can help fund innovative programs that strengthen civic engagement in a sustainable way.
“Good Deals” Marketplace: Businesses and nonprofit organizations come together and establish partnerships based on time, knowledge, expertise, in-kind contributions, or networks—money is not part of these agreements.
Pro Bono Days: Professionals volunteer their expertise to support nonprofit organizations for one or more days. Together, they tackle specific challenges and develop solutions.
Social Hackathons: Interdisciplinary teams develop innovative solutions to societal challenges within a limited timeframe. Nonprofit organizations gain access to creative ideas and professional expertise.
Corporate Volunteering: Companies and their employees get involved in charitable projects. AMAIDI develops tailored volunteer programs and supports their implementation.
Need, Not Just Action: We exclusively facilitate projects for which nonprofit organizations have identified a specific need for support.
Targeted Use of Expertise: Expertise from the worlds of business, academia, and society is applied where it truly benefits organizations—for example, in IT, marketing, strategy, fundraising, finance, or organizational development.
International Experience Since 2006: AMAIDI has many years of experience in international placement and collaboration with nonprofit organizations. We are active in more than 60 countries and connect local needs with expertise available worldwide.
A one-stop solution: From needs assessment and project design to placement, preparation, and support, we handle all the organizational tasks.
Sustainable Impact: We focus on existing, financially independent, and sustainably structured projects. Our goal is to transfer knowledge and skills and to strengthen organizations over the long term.
Funding with Flexibility: Foundations can propose their own funding goals, topics, and regions. Together, we develop a suitable funding plan and coordinate its implementation in a transparent manner.
Long-standing partners and supporters: AMAIDI collaborates with foundations, companies, and other funding partners that support and facilitate social engagement. Our partners and supporters include the BMW Foundation, the Dr. Jürgen Rembold Foundation, and Kreissparkasse Köln, among others. Discover more partners and supporters. Together, our partners make projects, engagement programs, and innovative forms of social collaboration possible.
Nonprofit organizations around the world need support in addressing specific challenges. By providing project funding, you can help them gain access to professional volunteers and valuable expertise. Below is a selection of our current projects, which illustrate the wide range of opportunities for getting involved.
Each funded project is based on a specific need and is developed in collaboration with the project partner.
AMAIDI supports your funding initiative from the initial idea through to implementation. We place great importance on clear coordination, well-defined project goals, and transparent use of funding.
We tailor the specific documentation and reporting to your individual requirements.
Every initiative tells its own story. Discover AMAIDI’s completed pro bono projects, corporate volunteering assignments, and international engagement initiatives. Learn how individual skills, new perspectives, and shared ideas come together to provide tangible support for nonprofit organizations.
Let the experiences of our project partners, companies, and volunteers inspire you.
Foundations can support AMAIDI’s institutional work, specific grant projects, thematic and country sponsorships, as well as engagement programs such as Pro Bono Days, hackathons, or “Gute Geschäfte” marketplaces.
Yes. Institutional funding supports the organizational and structural foundations necessary for AMAIDI’s work. This includes, for example, project coordination, partner networks, placement processes, and volunteer support.
Yes. Foundations can select specific projects or work with AMAIDI to develop a funding project. In doing so, we take into account your funding objectives, the intended purpose of the funding, and the available resources.
Yes. Together, we can determine which social challenges should be the focus of a grant. Depending on the agreement, the funding can be used to support suitable projects.
Yes. Funding can be targeted at specific regions, countries, topics, or societal challenges. Together, we will assess which project partners are suitable and what needs exist.
AMAIDI coordinates funding projects with you based on your foundation’s mission. For example, charitable purposes as defined in Section 52 of the German Tax Code (AO) may be taken into account. Specific eligibility for funding depends on your articles of incorporation and the respective funding conditions.
The amount of funding depends on the purpose of the grant, the scope of the project, and the services required. Together, we will develop a transparent funding framework. Multi-year funding partnerships are also generally possible.
No. Volunteers contribute their time, skills, and labor free of charge. Grants cover the necessary organizational costs and, if applicable, other project-related expenses.
That is the goal of our funding models. By covering the costs of the necessary coordination and organizational services, we can ease the burden on nonprofit organizations and volunteers. The specific scope of services is determined on a case-by-case basis depending on the funding program.
AMAIDI works with the foundation to agree on appropriate project goals, outcomes, and forms of documentation. Depending on the grant project, documentation may include, for example, the number of volunteers placed, the organizations supported, the skills developed, and the project outcomes achieved.
Yes. A long-term funding partnership can help strengthen structures over the long term, enable ongoing engagement, and foster the sustainable development of projects.
The tax treatment and the issuance of a donation receipt depend on the specific donation and the legal requirements. AMAIDI will be happy to provide you with more information on this as part of the funding agreement.
First, we discuss your funding goals and options. Then, we work together to develop a suitable funding plan that includes a specific project scope, budget, and implementation strategy.
Let’s work together to turn your funding idea into tangible social impact.
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