Since its foundation in 1961 the GLS Treuhand has offered its resources to every individual who is committed to working for the common good.

The GLS Treuhand offers advice regarding last wills and inheritance as well as donations and the establishment of individual charitable foundations. It can play the role of an intermediary in the personal process of transferring wealth for community oriented benefits.

With the Foundations for the Future, the GLS Treuhand is directly engaged in the fields of education, development assistance, agriculture, health care and social welfare.
Currently it maintains more than 60 donor advised funds. Founders and initiatives continue to be involved in the decision making processes.
The GLS Treuhand also offers specific topic-oriented funds (so-called Theme Funds) which work towards resolving crucial social challenges.

The legal structure of the GLS Treuhand is that of a trusteeship, an umbrella organisation of 290 (2009) associations with social, ecological and cultural goals. The trusteeship belongs to the GLS group, together with the GLS Bank and the GLS holding company.

Download: Annual Report 2009

Please contact us
If these topics are of interest for you, you are welcome to participate. For more details about entering an existing foundation and donation possibilities, please contact

Dr. Richard Everett
Phone: +49 234 5797-227
Email: richard.everett@gls.de

 

"The fear of a future we dread can only be overcome through images of a future we want."
(Wilhelm Ernst Barkhoff; founding member of the GLS bank and GLS trusteeship.)

The GLS Treuhand wants to achieve a culture of donation which connects individual freedom and initiative to social responsibility. It supports the citizens’ social engagement by providing advice and assistance, bringing people and money together for social, ecological and cultural purposes.

The GLS Treuhand and its foundations work unselfishly, transparently and cooperatively together with everyone who wants to create the future and move the present.

Development Aid: Zukunftsstiftung Entwicklungshilfe
(with Development Aid Fund)
Sponsorship for children as well as social and self-help projects for peasants, crafts people, cooperatives and womens-groups in Peru, Brasil, Kenia, Uganda, India, Nepal and Vietnam.

Contact:
Dr. Annette Massmann,
Phone: +49 234 5797-224,
Email: ewh@gls.de
www.entwicklungshilfe3.de

 

Agriculture: Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft
(with Organic Seed-Research-Fund and livestock/ poultry breeding funds)
Supports projects focusing on livestock and poultry breeding, organic plant breeding, research and education, as well as projects committed to maintaining seeds free of genetic modifications (gm-free seeds). Conventions and discussion forums. Promotor of the campaign Save our Seeds (SOS).

Contact:
Oliver Willing
Phone: +49 234 5797-141
Email: willing@zs-l.de
www.zs-l.de

 

Education: Zukunftsstiftung Bildung
Supporting projects for educational reform. Promoting learning processes oriented towards the individual (personalized learning). Supporting  free cultural life.

Contact:
Matthias Riepe
Phone: +49 234 5797-297
Email: matthias.riepe@gls.de
www.zukunftsstiftung-bildung.de

 

Society: Zukunftsstiftung Soziales Leben
Assistance for people who contribute by their own artistic or scientific initiative, to the development of society and social consciousness.

Contact:
Helene Shangama
Phone: +49 234 5797-134
Email: helene.shangama@gls.de
www.zukunftsstiftung-soziales-leben.de

Holistic Health Care: Zukunftsstiftung Gesundheit
Support for initiatives and projects with an impetus towards a health care system focused on individual developing persons.

Contact:
Jan Matthias Hesse
Phone: +49 711 22021697
Email: info@zukunftsstiftung-gesundheit.de
www.zukunftsstiftung-gesundheit.de

 

Sustainable Energy: Stiftung Neue Energie
Committed to contribute to a change towards sustainable energy production. Supports decentralised, ecological initiatives for renewable energy and works against the use of atomic power.

Contact:
Dr. Antje Tönnis
Phone: +49 234 5797-352
Email: antje.toennis@gls.de

 

Donations for Projects: Zuwendungen an Projekte

Contact:
Matthias Riepe
Phone: +49 234 5797-297
Email: matthias.riepe@gls.de