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Aktion Mensch
Aktion Mensch has supported numerous projects of Give Something Back to Berlin since its foundation.
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Allianz Kulturstiftung
GSBTB are happy to have had Allianz Kulturstiftung as one of the first partners of our different music projects involving newly arrived refugees within the frame of the GSBTB Open Music School.
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Anschutz Hilft e.V.
As a part of supporting refugee and newcomer musicians in Berlin, Anschutz Hilft gave us a generous donation to kick-start our GSBTB Open Music School. Thanks!
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Booking.com
As a part of their Christmas donation campaign, Booking.com organised an charity gala for its hundreds of multicultural Berlin employees. A big part of the entrance fee went directly to GSBTB.
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Brammibal’s Donuts
Located in the heart of Neukölln, Brammibal’s Donuts is a beloved local enterprise which specialises in making delicious vegan donuts. This August, as part of their social involvement plan, they created a special “GSBTB donut”, the proceeds of which went to support GSBTB’s work. Creating awareness about projects while making a contribution to the local neighbourhood at its best – thanks so much!
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Buddy Bär Berlin
Most people in Berlin know the big Buddy Bär-bears standing around the city. Those colourful bears are not only the official symbol of Berlin – they also raise money for good causes. Every bear is made by an artist, then auctioned and sold, with donations going to projects all over the world.
Buddy Bär Berlin has generously supported our Open Hearts Space’s work with women and children with a monthly donation for multiple years
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ChartMogul
ChartMogul is an analytics startup committed to excellence, integrity, ownership, impact, and empathy. Having an international team working across the world and staff members with migration background, they felt inspired by our initiatives. We have enjoyed a generous unconditional donation from ChartMogul to continue our project activities and support our community members.
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Demokratie Leben
Demokratie Leben has generously supported our GSBTB Open City project. Here we are aiming to create concrete grassroots tools to ensure more political advocacy for migrants and refugees, making them active contributors in their cities. This creates stronger networks for participation and inclusion. Demokratie Leben is a state fund from Bundesministerium für Famillie, Senioren und Jugend.
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Deutsche Fernsehlotterie
The Deutsche Fernsehlotterie has been generously supporting our activities with refugee women, children, and young people to promote linguistic and social integration.
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East Side Music Days
In 2017 and 2018 we curated one of the main stages at the big music festival East Side Music Days taking place in August at the famous Berlin Wall. There we showcased our diverse community of newcomer bands and acts that we know through our GSBTB Open Music School platform.
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European Commission
GSBTB’s communication and outreach efforts have been supported by the European Commission’s DEAR Programme through the project “I am European”. Led by the Estonian NGO Mondo, the multilateral project aims to have a positive impact on achieving a more open, inclusive, and peaceful culture towards migrants and refugees in Europe. Within this framework, GSBTB has been running a project called “A Europe for All, without any If and But”.
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Evil Greed
Evil Greed is an online merchandise (clothing, vinyl, fashion accessories, etc) shop specialising in punk/hardcore/metal and associated music genres. As a good partner of the Give Something Back to Berlin, they have supported the Open Music School in multiple ways in the previous years. In 2021, they ran a campaign to collect musical instruments and donated them to GSBTB. A big thank you, Evil Greed!
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The Global Whole Being Fund
The San Fransisco-based The Global Whole Being Fund is a family foundation supporting holistic work for “people on the move” globally. Their aim is to nourish the dignity of migrants and their receiving communities by supporting courageous, compassionate heart-led local, national, as well as international programs and initiatives. We are proud to be one of their few German grant partners.
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greatcontent
Thanks greatcontent for the 2017 Christmas-donation supporting our weekly German Sprachcafé!
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.
Give Something Back to Berlin teamed up with Harvard to create a lecture on the role of civil society in welcoming refugees to Germany in 2015 and onwards, as well as GSBTB’s work on sustainable integration. The lecture will remain as part of the core curriculum of the Strategy Execution course.
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Immobilien Scout
Immobilen Scout hosted one of our bi-weekly English tutoring at their beautiful headquarters in Berlin.
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Krankenkasse BKK Verkehrsbau Union
The German Krankenkasse BKK has supported GSBTB’s projects with different aspects of health prevention for refugee newcomers. Those themes are an integrated part of many different aspects of our work – such as swimming lessons, healthy food, weekly yoga lessons for community members and volunteers, psycho social support, meditation, walks in nature, body therapy and much more.
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Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten (LAF)
The Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten (LAF) started its important work on 1st of August 2016, and is the youngest government authority in Berlin. With enormously increasing numbers of refugees arriving in Berlin during the fall of 2015, the Senate decided to found the LAF to provide support and accommodation for refugees. The LAF kindly supports the Frauen- und Jugendcafé in 2020.
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Lotto Stiftung
Lotto Stiftung Berlin has generously supported GSBTB’s work with training, managing and running workshops for hundreds of GSBTB volunteers and community members active in our events and 25+ projects per week. This has been crucial to maintain quality and continue to develop our methods and our status as a ‘best practice’ model.
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Lush
Thank you to Lush for donating some amazingly fresh and nice-smelling cosmetic goodies to support our work and projects with women and children!
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Miles
Miles is a car sharing company and has an ongoing program to support nonprofits. Miles has assigned one of its cars to Give Something Back to Berlin for three months and donated all the income generated through rentals of this car.
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Migration Matters e.V.
Migration Matters is a non-profit organization that was founded by four women in January 2016 in response to media coverage of the so-called refugee crisis. Their mission is to support the public in holding more nuanced and evidence-based conversations about migration and diversity.GSBTB and Migration Matters share similar vision and values and have collaborated on various occasions including content sharing, film screening, and conducting workshops together. -
Millie
Millie is a perspective-expanding lifestyle brand and community that connects women from around the world. Based in Canada, Millie creates economic empowerment for women artisans in 15+ countries, believes in raising each other up and engaging mindfully with the world.
Millie hosted us as part of their podcast, featuring women who inspires a new way of thinking and invites listeners to see the world in a different way. Additionally, Millie has also sponsored our fundraising work and outreach efforts.
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muxmäuschenwild
We had the honour of getting a big part of the entrance fees of the lovely summer and birthday-parties from our friends at the PR and marketing agency Muxmäuschenwild.
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Native Instruments
Native Instruments is a leading manufacturer of software and hardware for computer-based audio production and DJing. NI supports our Open Music Lab to develop and implement an Advanced Music Creation Course.
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Der Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband
Give Something Back to Berlin is a member of the umbrella association “Der Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband“, which gives structural and periodical support to NGOs, including consultancy, networking, and access to grants. Thanks to a generous grant from the Paritätische, we have been able to close a gap in financing our projects as well.
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PayPal
We were awarded a generous donation from the Berlin PayPal Gives for the coordination and support of GSBTB’s 25+ weekly projects.
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PerMondo / Mondo Agit
PerMondo is an initiative of the translation agency Mondo Agit. It was launched in 2009 to offer free translation services for non-profit organisations and projects. Collaborating with volunteer translators, PerMondo has been helping NGOs to spread their message in several languages and increase their outreach globally. GSBTB is grateful for PerMondo’s support in translating its website and some of the communication materials.
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PopSockets
PopSockets exists to change the world for the better with innovative, magical products and community-empowered activism. Products include PopGrip, PopTop, PopWallet, PopThirst, and PopMount, all designed to increase the functionality of devices we use daily. Through their Poptivism program, PopSockets donates 50% of the sale price of custom PopGrips to selected charities. We’re proud to have been a Poptivism charity partner.
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Refuge
Refuge aims to conduct a series of fundraising events targeted to support local homeless and refugee charities in Berlin. In 2017, GSBTB was one of the charities picked for the Refuge party at Griessmuehle, where part of the proceeds from door sales went as donations for GSBTB’s work. In 2018, Refuge and GSBTB worked together again to organise the Soli Streetfood Festival (where the GSBTB Open Kitchen also had a stall) which took place at Klunkerkranich.
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Refugio Berlin
Refugio is a place where new and long-time Berliners live and work together. Refugio was established in the summer of 2015 and is part of Berlin City Mission.
Give Something Back to Berlin uses Refugio’s premises as their office and activity space. Since its foundation, Refugio has remained as our main partner and we support each other in various ways on a daily basis.
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SBW Berlin
SBW Berlin supports educational projects all over the world. It awards scholarships to young talents from abroad who have already shown civil engagement in their home country and who are coming from a financially disadvantaged family background. With their SBW Berlin Scholarship, SBW contributes to the international advancement and dissemination of education and knowledge.
Give Something Back to Berlin have teamed up with SBW for project development and execution, as well as for internship placements.
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sevDesk
sevDesk offers intuitive software for all accounting and financial management needs for those who are self-employed, freelancers, or for small businesses. Useful functions such as quotation and invoicing, integrated online banking, or the digitisation of receipts and automatic posting make everyday office life easier. sevDesk has generously offered GSBTB their accounting software on a pro-bono basis, to help our Finance Team better streamline their processes — thanks a lot!
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Shuttleworth Foundation
We had the great honour to recieve a flash grant from the South African Shuttleworth Foundation – a grant that is only accessible via a recommendation through a Shuttleworth Fellow.
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SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website based in Berlin, Germany. It is the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators. SoundCloud has generously supported GSBTB with an unconditional grant from the SoundCloud Community Fund. Moreover, SoundCloud supports our Agora podcast series by providing us with a Pro Unlimited account.
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Stone Brewing
US craft-beer giant Stone Brewing Berlin has donated beers to our regular events and festivals. The proceeds from these directly go back to our community work.
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Qatar Foundation International
US-based Qatar Foundation International has the goal to create meaningful connections with the Arab world through the support of cultural and education projects in the US, UK and Germany, as well as building awareness of the richness and diversity of Arabic culture and language. QFI supports our musical and cultural programming creating positive meeting points between new arrivals and local communities in Berlin.
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TOMS
GSBTB has teamed up with the Californian shoe brand TOMS, which is regularly investing proceeds into causes such as gun control, clean water and safer births around the globe. We are super proud of being one of their first German partners.
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Ubisoft Berlin
Opened in 2018, Ubisoft Berlin is a diverse and creative studio and works as part of Ubisoft Blue Byte’s German development studio network. It aims to deliver inspiring and meaningful game experiences. Ubisoft Berlin invited GSBTB to the Game Jam 2020, where our team met and interacted with young and enthusiastic game developers from Berlin and beyond. Ubisoft Berlin and its game developer community has kindly supported our office work and weekly activities run by multiple project groups.
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Yellow Yoga
Yellow Yoga has supported our work with women and children by donating from their Yellow Yoga charity day as well as organising weekly teachers for our GSBTB Open Yoga classes for our volunteers and community members.
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99 Designs
99 Designs is a design service by Vista. It is freelancer platform for connecting graphic designers and clients.
Give Something Back to Berlin received a generous grant and additional sponsorship to enhancing its branding and communications.
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7Mind
7Mind offers a low-threshold start into your mindfulness and meditation practice. Get more inner peace and well-being in just 7 minutes a day with the meditations from the 7Mind app. Also, 7Mind the first meditation app with a certified and reimbursable prevention course. This means: You’ll improve your stress management with 7Mind and your insurance company will reimburse the costs up to 100%.