The voluntary welfare associations in Germany: An overview

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• 11.000 places provided for young people in a „voluntary year of social service.⁴⁶
The voluntary workers cover different areas of activity:⁴⁷

Voluntary workers and their different areas of activity

Board of Directors ! Management
Assistanceto Individuals
Assistance to Groups
TedinicalAssfstanceJ Housekeeping
Planning/ Implementation OfMeasures

OrganisationJAdministratioii /PR
Transport i Driving Services
Fundraising
TrainingJEducation
Mises Ianecus

Sooce Detnr⅛r Ca rasrabτ⅛ !И0

The economic importance of the voluntary welfare associations is considerable:⁴⁸

• annual increase in value: > 50 billion €. In Bremen: 3 % of the GDP 2005⁴⁹.

• total volume of income: appr. 70 billion € p.a., 4,5 % of the national wage bill.

• very high employment rate for women (> 70 %) and a high rate of part-time work
(41 %).

• predominant funding by the public: > 80 % remuneration for services and grants-
in-aid.

2.4 Sources of Financing

Consistent with the principle of subsidiarity the German nonprofit sector including the
voluntary welfare associations receives the bulk of its revenue from public sector
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sources.

⁴⁶ BAGFW 2003: 13: BAGFW 2002: 78-79.

⁴⁷ BAGFW 2003: 17.

⁴⁸ Boeβenecker, 2007:3, BAGFW 2002: 95-97.

⁴⁹ Schneider 2008: 13-14.

⁵⁰ Priller/Zimmer/Anheier/Toepler/Salamon 1999: 109; Priller/Zimmer 2001: 209-220. But in contrast to
the voluntary welfare associations only about one-third of all nonprofit organizations in Germany re-
ceive the majority of their funding from the public sector: Priller/Zimmer/Anheier/Toepler/Salamon
1999: 113. See to the funding of social service: Dahme/Schütter/Wohlfahrt 2008:114-129.

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