With your vote we can raise 1000€! (Maybe)

The university of Kiel has a programm focussing on social entrepreneurship. We applied for 2000€ funding, in an online voting we can raise another 1000€ if we accumulate the most votes of all teams! The programm is called ‘Yooweedoo’ and they provide a lot of useful information about how to get from an idea to a proper project. Once a year they start a competition and we created and tweaked [...]

2018-03-10T15:47:11+00:00February 6th, 2018|NG3O|

‘Yoofutter Digital Impact’

To fund our undertaking we identified different scources of funding. Next to donations from individuals and companies, we will kick off a crowdfunding campaign in the next year. On top of that in the past week we have been looking for funding from institutions and discovered that there are a few competitions our project might fit in and have a chance to win funding. ‘We need money’ is a sentence [...]

2018-03-10T15:45:28+00:00January 10th, 2018|NG3O|

NG3O is now officially charitable!

We did it! After a long and tedious process we managed to be a state-approved charitable organisation. As you probably know this enables us to produce receipts that are tax-deductible in Germany. As we are dependent on donations to cover the expenses this is the next step towards making our idea reality. Finding donors to make NG3O possible Our biggest objective now is to convince donors to support this project. [...]

2018-03-10T12:26:18+00:00December 28th, 2017|NG3O|

Our idea in TWO minutes (Video)

You don't have a clue why we post videos on Youtube? You would like to know why Sharing is so important for us? Here are the answers! We put together a video to explain our idea within two minutes. (Activate Subtiles if you like :) )   You have questions? Send us a message using our Contact form or e-Mail :)

2018-03-10T12:11:00+00:00November 16th, 2017|NG3O|

NG3O is now officially a NGO!

We have taken the next step in making our project come to life. On the 01.09.2017 we invited friends and family to pitch our idea and fought our way through the german bureaucracy and are now register as a Non-Governmental Organisation. Our journey begins with 31 members to our organisation All members present had a vote and appointed the board of our organisation. Tom and Johannes were voted to be [...]

2018-03-10T12:26:24+00:00November 9th, 2017|NG3O|

Back in Germany – for now…

Three weeks in the Philippines have past and we are back in cold old Germany. We had a really exciting trip taking us from the slums of Manila to the beautiful beaches of Palawan. But what fascinated us the most was the kindness and the hospitality of the people we met on our journey. They gave us ‘local’ advice on which places to see and which dishes to try. Although [...]

2018-03-10T08:07:59+00:00October 12th, 2017|NG3O, Traveling|

Our first invitation – Playing futkal with the futkaleros in Tondo

This was new to us! We received a message asking us to join Dennis and his kids for a football training session in the middle of Tondo. After our experience with Young Focus a couple of days earlier we were eager to go back to Tondo and get to know the locals. Two girls taking a break after playing in the heat of Manila How cool! Dennis was [...]

2018-03-10T12:11:15+00:00September 22nd, 2017|NG3O, Work with NGOs|

Working on the rubbish dump of Manila – A meeting with “Young Focus”

One of the organisations we were most excited to meet on our fact finding mission in Manila was Young Focus. They are located in Tondo, with the biggest informal settlement close-by and the reputation of being dangerous. Our Uber dropped us off just in front of Young Focus’ office, a building located in the residential area just a stone throw away from the bridge that leads to the informal settlements. [...]

2018-03-10T11:30:04+00:00September 19th, 2017|NG3O, Work with NGOs|

We are on a mission!

We have set out on a trip to the Philippines to exchange some ideas with NGOs and their experiences with online fundraising. For this reason we have got in contact with several organisations mainly in Manila to fact check our concept. We have made appointments with both smaller and bigger organisations to learn from their experience. What are we hoping to find? So far we have developed our concept with [...]

2018-03-10T12:11:24+00:00September 4th, 2017|NG3O, Traveling|

NG3O in Manila! Flights booked

NG3O goes philippines! Yesterday we booked the flights to our first destination: Manila! Starting on the 4th of September we will spend three weeks in and around the capital of the philippines. We chose the philipine islands because the majority speaks fluent english, a necessity for successful research. Market research and workflow as a team During our stay we plan to visit a variety of NGOs to collect information. How [...]

2018-03-10T12:11:45+00:00August 8th, 2017|NG3O, Traveling|