Donations and Sponsoring
Social and cultural commitment
The family-owned company, headquartered in Stuttgart, regularly sponsors social and cultural projects that are directly related to the activities of the Thieme Group. The focus is on regional projects. However, international initiatives are also supported time and again.
The suggestions for donation recipients usually come from the employees.
#StandWithUkraine: Thieme donates to Doctors Without Borders e. V.
The war in Ukraine is a humanitarian disaster for the people in the country. Medical aid is urgently needed. Thieme not only wants to show solidarity, but actively help with a donation of €50,000 to Doctors Without Borders.
Recipients of donations - a selection
The Aufbaugilde Heilbronn is a diaconal social enterprise that has been active for many years in the areas of assistance for the homeless, the unemployed and addicts, as well as in debt counseling. The money donated goes to the "WOHNEN SPENDEN" campaign: the Aufbaugilde acquires fully equipped mini-module houses (from a size of 11 m²) and sets them up in Heilbronn and the surrounding region to offer people without a home an affordable alternative. This initiative has been in place since 2019.
The Stuttgart Children's and Youth Hospice accompanies seriously ill and dying people as well as their relatives and mourners. The greatest concern is to provide care and support in an atmosphere of warmth and security.
Equality and accessibility for people with intellectual disabilities – these are the goals of Lebenshilfe. Since 1958, the Federal Association has been working as a self-help, parental and professional association for people with disabilities and their families. Through participation in everyday life, the quality of life of those affected is improved.
Franziskustreff offers a free breakfast to homeless and needy people in downtown Frankfurt. The more than 60 volunteers open the doors on all working days as well as church holidays. The small dining room with only 32 seats is daily visited by between 100 and 200 guests. Funding is provided solely by donations.
The association financially supports the children's home Havilah Family, which is located in Kitale (Kenya). Most of the children living there are orphans. Others come from very poor families, have seriously ill parents or have been abused or abandoned. The facility offers these children a home and security and tries to strengthen their self-esteem. Havilah Hope e. V., based in Dinkelsbühl, also helps to provide the children with a school education and thus a better future.
The Female Fellows association sees itself as an integration project for women and girls. Currently, it is particularly committed to strengthening women who have experienced flight and migration. Under the motto "Behind every strong woman are strong women," the association contributes to “fempowerment” and thus to a society that lives diversity and in which everyone can participate on an equal footing. The tandem projects in Stuttgart, Bietigheim-Bissingen and Tübingen, which are run by volunteers, offer concrete language and everyday support. But also events, yoga courses and all kinds of other joint activities.
Leseohren e.V. is a non-profit association with the goal of teaching children the joy of language and books. The association now trains and supervises more than 500 volunteer reading mentors who regularly read aloud in daycare centers, district libraries, schools and other institutions throughout Stuttgart.
The aim of the association is to give disadvantaged children and young people access to sports activities. Anyone under the age of 18 who needs special sports equipment, would like to join a club or participate in a sports camp, but is unable to pay the fees, may contact BewegtEuch e. V.. The chairwoman is Dr. Lisa Federle, an emergency physician from Tübingen, who launched the initiative together with actor Jan Josef Liefers and sports presenter Michael Antwerpes at a time when many sports facilities had to close their doors due to corona.
The idea "Hilfe für den Nachbarn e.V." has been the Stuttgarter Zeitung's major reader donation campaign for more than 40 years. Every year around Christmas time, readers, companies and associations donate around one million euros to people from Stuttgart and its region who are in need.
Klabautermann is a support association at Nuremberg South Hospital that cares for chronically ill children and their families. The focus of the work is anything that goes beyond medical care at the hospital. The aim is to sustainably improve the quality of life and opportunities of chronically ill children. Donations have been used, for example, to create apartments for parents in the clinic's aftercare center. The association also supports affected families outside the clinic, for example in the field of aftercare, and offers workshops for siblings, among others.