Werner Bonhoff Stiftung

The Werner Bonhoff Foundation is a non-profit and independent civil law foundation based in Berlin. It was established in 2002 by Elsbeth Bonhoff in memory of her son Werner Bonhoff, using his estate. The foundation operates nationwide through its own projects, including the participatory project Bureaucracy Therapy since 2005 and the program "After the Act" since 2010. With the BONHOFF METHOD, it promotes transparency in the public sector and encourages citizens to share their experiences with bureaucratic obstacles or school violence in order to initiate improvement and learning processes "from the bottom up." Outstanding practical cases are honored annually through the awarding of the Werner Bonhoff Prize.

The Werner Bonhoff Foundation has made it its mission to effectively initiate improvements in administration, legislation, and schools for citizens and entrepreneurial individuals with minimal effort. Through the BONHOFF METHOD, it aims to create transparency via critical experiential reports and bottom-up learning processes, in order to reduce bureaucratic misdevelopments and empower victims of violence and bullying to actively bring about changes in their schools.

The funding programs of the Werner Bonhoff Foundation are aimed at two main target groups: first, entrepreneurial individuals and business owners from all over Germany who experience bureaucratic obstacles in their daily lives and can share their case studies in a publicly accessible case collection through the Bureaucracy Therapy project; second, observers and victims of violence and bullying in schools who are supported by the "After the Act" program to actively initiate improvements in their educational institutions without endangering themselves.