We participate in the Initiative of a transparent Civil Society and undertake to make the following ten pieces of information available to the public and to keep them up to date.
1. Name, registered office, address and year of foundation
act for transformation, non-provit association
Gmünder Strasse 9
73430 Aalen / Germany
We have founded as a non-profit association - in the year 2007 - and are in the cooperative register in Ulm under Reg.Nr. 720025.
2. Complete charter and objectives of our organization
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2.1. You can download the statutes of the cooperative here: Statutes
2.2. Our mission statement and goals are described under the menu item "Mission Statement".
2.3. Main topics:
We are active in the following areas:
3. Information on tax privileges and examination by the cooperative association
The cooperative is recognized as a non-profit and charitable organization and, according to the most recent exemption notice from the Aalen tax office, is exempt from corporate income tax.
See the last notice of exemption here:
Notice of exemption 2013-15
We are a member of the cooperative and auditing association in Dessau "Auditing Association of German Economic, Social and Cultural Cooperatives e.V." and are regularly audited by them.
4. Names and positions of key decision-makers
The decisive body is the at least annual general assembly of the cooperative, in which all members are represented with one vote. They elect the Executive Board, which usually consists of two people, and the representative of the Supervisory Board. The current members can be found under "Contact"
5. Reports
of previous years can be found below under “Annual Reports” and “Press Releases”.
6. Personnel structure
All employees and our active trainers can be found under "Contact + Team".
7. Source of Funds Disclosures
Information on the source of funds can be found in our annual reports. As a cooperative, we are also obliged to publish our balance sheet in the Federal Gazette (search term: act for transformation).
8. Information on the use of funds
As a non-profit cooperative, we use all our funds exclusively for the statutory use of our work. You can also read the information on the use of funds in the current annual report.
9. Corporate Affiliates with Third Parties
Act for transformation is a non-profit cooperative in which every member has equal voting rights. There are currently no legal entities involved in the cooperative. We are a member of various networks and cooperate with organizations that pursue goals similar to ours. You can find the list under References: Cooperation partners
10. names of legal entities,
whose annual payments account for more than 10% of the total annual budget. The cooperative is mainly financed by public and private grants
BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation) via Engagement Global, Federal Foreign Office and state funds via SEZ (Foundation for Development Cooperation)
as well as church funds (Brot für die Welt, Kath. Fond and Quaker-Hilfe e.V.) and various foundations (Aktion Mensch, Stiftung Mitarbeit, etc.)
So far, there have not been any individual donations that make up more than 10% of the total annual income.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Management Board.
Annual reports and media documentation you only can find in German language. For this you switch the button to German
Our sponsors
We apply for project funds for our projects from state and private sponsors. Here is a list of our most important donors: