The voluntary welfare associations in Germany: An overview



Summary

The traditional role of voluntary welfare associations has changed and will change fur-
ther on. Recent legislation strongly influenced by the European Union largely abolished
their prominent and privileged role in corporatism. The traditional way of co-operation
was substituted with new forms of welfare-mix and welfare-pluralism including more
and more other private non-profit, but also for-profit providers of social welfare and
services.

Partly the voluntary welfare associations have already adjusted themselves to these new
problems and challenges. Main tasks however still must be fulfilled to find the future
role under changed framework conditions:

The new balance of different interests of traditional member organizations and
providers of social services,

the maintaining of the leading role as providers of social services in the “new
world” of welfare-pluralism and market-orientation and

the necessary integration of new approaches of self-help, voluntary and charity
work.

Inhalt

Die traditionelle Rolle der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege hat sich verandert und wird sich
weiter verandern. Die Gesetzgebung der vergangenen Jahre, die stark von der Europai-
schen Union beeinflusst wurde, hat ihre hervorgehobene und privilegierte Stellung im
korporatistischen System beseitigt. Die traditionelle Kooperation wurde durch neue
Formen des Wohlfahrtsmix und Wohlfahrtspluralismus ersetzt, zu dem immer mehr
andere gemeinnützige, aber auch gewerbliche Anbieter sozialer Dienste gehoren.

Teilweise hat sich die Freie Wohlfahrtspflege schon auf diese neuen Probleme und Her-
ausforderungen eingestellt. Viele Aufgaben müssen aber in der Zukunft unter verander-
ten Rahmenbedingungen noch in Angriff genommen werden:

Eine neue Balance unterschiedlicher Interesse von traditionellen Mitgliederor-
ganisationen und Anbietern sozialer Dienste,

die Behauptung der führenden Rolle als Anbieter sozialer Dienst in der „neuen
Welt“ von Wohlfahrtspluralismus und Marktorientierung und

die notwendige Integration neuer Ansatze von Selbsthilfe und bürgerschaftli-
chem Engagement.



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