The voluntary welfare associations in Germany: An overview

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• internal funding 12,5 %.

These shares change considerably if the value of the voluntary work is taken into ac-
count: The share of public funding decreases and the share of internal funding rises.⁵³

During the past years the public grants-in-aid decreased considerably, e. g. the grants-
in-aid to the central voluntary welfare associations by the Federal Government: ⁵⁴

2.5 Problems and Challenges

Presently and in future the voluntary welfare associations have to deal with the follow-
ing main problems and challenges:⁵⁵

• definition of its future role,

• modernization of social services and welfare,

• abolishing of conditional precedence,

• integrating of self-help and voluntary work.

These problems and challenges are very closely linked. The central task behind all the
different issues is the search for and the creation of a new authorization and a new iden-
tity.⁵⁶

Concerning their future role the multifunctional voluntary welfare associations have to
find a new balance between their traditional role and their function as social service
provider:⁵⁷

⁵³ With regard to the Third Sector in general: Priller/Zimmer 2001: 210-211.

⁵⁴ Boeβenecker 2005: 258.

⁵⁵ See to new challenges in the context of the European development and the German unification:
Schmidt 1996: 157 ff.; Schieche 2008: 6-8. With regard to the change of paradigm from the corporatist
to the competitive framework: Dahme 2008: 10.

⁵⁶ Dahme/Kühnlein/Wohlfahrt 2005: 248-253.

⁵⁷ Dahme/Schütter/Wohlfahrt 2008: 95-99; Backer/Naegele/Bispinck/Hofemann/Neubauer 2007, Bd. 2:
535-536.

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