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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.