Who, What, Why, Where and How? - Youth Councils in Foundations

This report aims to show German funding organizations the positive effects of children and young people's active participation in grant-making decisions, and encourage the organizations to establish their own youth councils or take other steps to enable participation. In order to make this as easy as possible for the organizations, we set out quality criteria and success factors and suggest first steps that can be taken. Three of the programs run by German foundations that are profiled are covered in depth. By making youth councils and youth participation more widespread, the democratic process is strengthened and the legal rights of young people anchored in reality

Philanthropy's Go-Betweens

Since the end of the 1970s, a great variety of go-betweens have been set up to offer specialist services to foundations and individual donors. Some of these are market-driven. Others offer expertise on a certain topic (women, climate, etc), method (strategic planning, back office services, etc) or geographic region that a donor may not want to invest in itself