You want to promote social engagement through your company? You are not alone in this. More than half of all companies in Germany consider it important to support civil society1. If you care about healthy nutrition, sustainable agriculture and lifelong learning, then WWOOF Germany e.V. is the right partner for you.
On this page, you will learn about the various opportunities for cooperation and why supporting WWOOF Germany e.V. is valuable!
How a cooperation can look like?
Enable individual projects
We organize at least five participatory weekends on organic farms every year. For example, at Pentecost 2026, 50 people gathered at the Berghof Agatharied to garden together, build a 60-meter-long traditional wooden fence, uncover a pond, and much more. These gatherings provide significant support to the farms, preserve old craft techniques, foster community, and increase knowledge about sustainability. Help make these meetings possible with a designated donation! Please contact us at fundraising@wwoof.de.
Become a supporting member
With a supporting membership, your company can regularly support us for just 60 euros per year. You can find more information about supporting membership here.
Create volunteering opportunities for your employees
Give special experiences! Gift vouchers for an annual membership with WWOOF Germany e.V. to your employees and grant them time off to use our offers without having to use their vacation days. You can purchase the vouchers here.
Reach out to us, and together we will find the perfect collaboration!
What impact does your support have?
Support for your region
Our association operates throughout Germany. With around 500 farms in our network, there is surely one near your company. By partnering with local farms, we also support the region. Through our events and farm stays:
- Open, democratic spaces in rural areas are strengthened.
- Small-scale agriculture is valued as an important part of the region.
- Farms become places of lifelong learning.
- Exchange between urban and rural areas is encouraged.
- Rural areas become more attractive destinations for international tourists.
- Regional value chains are strengthened.
Greater Employee Satisfaction
Skilled workers and applicants today place greater value on the purpose and social responsibility of companies. To remain attractive as an employer, you should highlight shared values and create opportunities for engagement. Our engagement opportunities are low-threshold because no prior knowledge is required; they are available nationwide and offer temporal flexibility. Through our events and farm stays, participants not only learn something new about agriculture but also develop important shaping competencies. Our offers on the farms:
- Increase the sense of self-efficacy.
- Promote cooperation skills.
- Encourage thinking in new perspectives.
- Create special experiences and a welcome change from daily office life.
- Increase appreciation for healthy food.
- Actively help prevent mental illnesses through activities like gardening2.
- Increase appreciation for community.
Further opportunities for support
- Unrestricted Donation: Unrestricted donations are used for all ongoing costs (project costs, personnel costs, material costs, travel expenses, infrastructure, etc.). Upon request, you can also donate to a specific project, such as participation weekends, events for our association’s volunteers, webinars, or workshops. Click here to visit our donation page.
- Donations Instead of Gifts: Donate the budget you would have spent on corporate gifts to WWOOF Germany e.V. and highlight this in your annual correspondence.
- Provide Pro Bono Services: Software solutions, IT services, legal advice, etc. Feel free to approach us with your expertise!
Communicating Your Support
So that you can make your support visible both internally and externally, we provide you with meaningful materials—provided our values align.
- For donations worth more than 300 euros or more, we provide our logo and photos.
- For donations worth more than 500 euros or more, you get an online banner that you can use on your website and content for your social media channels.
- For donations worth more than 1,000 euros or more, we mention additionally your company name on our cooperation page.
Donations are Tax-Deductible
WWOOF Germany is a non-profit organization, and your donation is tax-deductible. Please note the tax regulations depending on the legal form of your company.
- For donations under 300 euros, a simplified confirmation of donation and a copy of the corresponding bank statement are sufficient as a donation receipt.
- For donations over 300 euros, we issue official donation certificates.
Contact
Do you have questions about our work or about donating? Laura is happy to help you with any questions: fundraising@wwoof.de
- Monitor Unternehmensengagement: https://ziviz.de/sites/ziv/files/2025-06/monitor_unternehmensengagement_2025.pdf ↩︎
- For example: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/hsc/2016261 ↩︎
Transparency regarding our finances and results is important to us, which is why we are part of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative.
