Program stakeholders

The ndo is a nationwide network of around 194 charities, organizations and projects. Our members are children and grandchildren of labor migrants and refugees, Sinti and Romani people, the people of the African diaspora, and Jewish, Muslim and other community actors who are looking to engage in dialogue. Some of us refer to ourselves as People of Color (PoC) or Black, ‘hyphenated Germans’ or something else altogether. What connects us: We see ourselves as a post-migrant countermovement against racism and in favor of an inclusive Germany, advocating for more representation and visibility of marginalized groups at all levels of political and societal decision-making.

We want to do something to counteract social division. As a network, we are committed to more visibility, participation and equal opportunities. We do this by engaging in debates or providing a pool of experts for media, politicians, foundations and more. We make our views clear through events, press interviews and position papers:

1. We require an inclusive understanding of belonging.
2. We want social policies that works for everyone, not
   integration politics.
3. People of Color and Black people must be more present.
4. We require radical reforms to the education system.
5. Civic engagement must be promoted.”

Wikimedia Deutschland was founded in 2004 by volunteer Wikipedia community members and is part of a global movement (Wikimedia Movement) which advocates for Free Knowledge. As a charitable organization with over 100,000 members, we have been supporting the creation, collection and dissemination of free content since our inception by supporting volunteers on Wikimedia projects, developing free software, and advocating for equal access to knowledge and education at every level of society. We call the equitable access to knowledge-making Knowledge Equity. There are many technical and social obstacles that we must overcome on the journey to achieving our goal, as well as decision-making processes that need restructuring; to that end, Wikimedia Deutschland wants to devote more of its resources to people whose knowledge is marginalized as a result of barriers and an uneven distribution of power.

Landesnetzwerk Migrantenorganisationen Sachsen-Anhalt (LAMSA) e.V. is an association of people with migrant backgrounds in Saxony-Anhalt. As an umbrella organization LAMSA connects people with different origins, cultural backgrounds, languages and religious affiliations, as well as different genders and ages and diverse realities of life. It represents their interests and forms a unity of diversity. LAMSA e.V. represents the political, economic, social and cultural interests of people with migrant backgrounds. It considers itself as their advocate and is available as a point of contact for the state government, all migration policy-relevant associations, institutions and other migrant organizations in other federal states. Currently there are about 110 migrant organizations and persons with migrant backgrounds members of LAMSA.

The Migration Lab is a network of cultural and educational institutions in the migration society. Together, spaces for thinking, exploration and encounters are created that are dedicated to the pedagogical and artistic mediation of topics relating to the migration society. Through transdisciplinary and multi-perspective cooperation, existing approaches are further developed, strategies are professionalized and concepts are expanded. The Migration Lab wants to pool resources and make them accessible. The focus is on a laboratory concept, which invites people to explore creative ways to develop diverse approaches to the complex phenomena of the migration society. The Migration Lab network currently brings together almost 60 civil society education initiatives, cultural organizations (theaters, museums, etc.), memorials and schools. It also cooperates with European and US partner organizations, including Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, USA.

Migrationsrat Berlin e.V. is an umbrella organization of almost 90 “migrant” self-organizations that are supported by Black People, People of Color and migrants as well as their descendants. The organization campaigns for the rights and interests of migrants and people with a history of migration in Berlin and works to promote their participation in society. In addition to a regional focus on Berlin (and Brandenburg), its work focuses on education, counseling, lobbying, and public relations, in particular on migration policy (including asylum policy), criticism of racism and post-colonial and post-national-socialist remembrance and commemoration – with the respective intersections of gender, age, disability, religion, residence status, sexual orientation and the history and dynamics of East/West Germany.

Migrant organization, educational institution, advice center, specialist institution, lobbyist… the Multikulturelle Forum e.V. has many faces. Under the motto ‘Strong through diversity’, we are committed to inclusion, participation and equal opportunities and have more than 100 employees with different backgrounds and skills. We focus on diversity as the reality and potential of a society and pursue ‘empowerment’: we encourage people to develop their personal strengths, support them in consolidating their identity, enable them to determine their own future and help them to demand their rights. We support new organizations and initiatives in increasing their visibility, ability to act and social participation by, for example, helping them to set up an association, professionalizing their accounting or public relations work and enabling them to submit their own project funding applications.

RomaniPhen e.V. is an association of Romnja and Sintizze*. Our approaches are feminist, critical of racism and empowering! We are primarily active in the field of education, knowledge and cultural production. We work in the field of extracurricular, historical and political education, on racism-critical training courses for specialists and multipliers and on the development and dissemination of educational materials.

SUPERRR is a laboratory for feminist digital futures. We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We explore the potential of new technologies for society and challenge existing paradigms by bringing new perspectives and stakeholders to the discussion.