Youth-Culture-Conveyance-Fund

On the basis of the charitable status and the non-profit character of our association, in 2007, we established a donation-fund to collect money in order to support regional youth and culture projects: The Youth-Culture-Conveyance-Fund. Background of this intent was the lack of financial means, which many projects in the area of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern still have to face, and which often even put at risk their existence. Public means for youth and culture projects have become increasingly difficult to acquire over the last years and particularly self-governed culture projects and youth centers often don't stand a chance of obtaining any of the very limited conveyance means. Many of these regional projects have been part of the organizational structure of the conjoint realization of the Fusion-Festival for years now. In many respects, the festival has become an important support to many projects in the entire north of Germany. Their commitment and help gives many of our fellow combatants the chance to secure the financial situation of their own projects. By now, the Kulturkosmos-network consists of over 100 associations and projects. For many, the festival has become an existence-securing institution.

With the Youth-Culture-Conveyance-Fund we have brought into being another instrument to support and conserve left-wing structures and projects in the area of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and increasingly as well in the area of rural Brandenburg. Already for the fifth year in a row, the Fund is collecting money from those who are willing and able to support youth and culture work. First and foremost, we directly address artists that perform at the festival and that are interested in helping us approach regional problems and are in the financial position to donate their payment to the Fund. Next to all the artists that perform at our stage: Tanzwiese, consistently, also well-known acts have renounced their payment in order to donate it to the Fund. The names of the artists that have donated also get published in the respective Fusion-Guide.

At this point, we want to thank everybody who has donated in the last years! Since 2007, in total € 63.692,- have been paid into the Fund!

What happens with the money?

All the donations get collected on a separate account. Projects then can propose motions to the Kulturkosmos to get supported. Though, the motions have to be filed in written form, the decision, weather the projects gets funded or not, is made rather informal at the association’s plenum.

Conditions to get supported by the Fund are, next to the charitable status and the non-profit character of the applying project, that the emphasis is set on youth and/or culture work in the region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or rural Brandenburg.

The Kulturkosmos reserves itself the right to use part of the money (max. 50%) for the realization of proper projects in the area of regional youth work. Admittedly, due to the lack of proper projects, in the last years this option was limited to the co-funding of the Theater-Youth-Camp that annually takes place on the Kulturkosmos-site. Therefore, most of the donations were paid to external projects. However, it is planned to realize more proper projects in the field of youth and culture work in the near future.

Projects that want to propose a motion to the Fund, can do this by mailing their application to mail (ätt) kulturkosmos. de.

Funded Projects

In the last years we have supported following projects:

2011 

  • Antirassistische Initiative Rostock (AIR)  - EUR 250,-
    Support for the „Anti-racist Awareness Week“ 2011

  • Demokratisches Jugendforum Brandenburg e.V. – EUR 4.000,-
    Education- Self-assertion-seminar
    www.djb-ev.de 

  • Belziger Forum e.V. – EUR 1.500,-
    Infocafé „Der Winkel“
    www.derwinkel.de

  • Kultur und Toleranz e.V. Gadebusch – EUR 1.500,-
    Summerschlacht-Festival in Wakenstätt
    www.sommerschlacht.de

  • Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Europäischen Kooperative e.V.
    Hof Ulenkrug – EUR  1.610,-
    Peace-Festival „Demmin 8. Mai“

  • Ladyfest Rostock 2011– EUR 1.000,-
    myspace.com/ladyfesthro/blog

  • Ecotopia – EUR 1.000,-
    Prearrangement- Meating in Wiesenburg August 2011
    www.ecotopia2010.org

  • SoBi – EUR 3.000 –
    Extension of the infrastructure of the „Peter-Weiss-Haus”
    www.peterweisshaus.de

2010

2009

2008

2007