Social Responsibility: Steinbeis M&A donations 2023/2024
Since its foundation in 2004, Steinbeis M&A Partners GmbH has donated a substantial portion of its profits to social projects and charitable organizations. This is intended to help promote education, research, environmental protection and, above all, holistic medicine and personal growth.
In 2024, we supported a total of 10 exciting and far-reaching projects. We focus on helping people to help themselves in individual projects or support purely humanitarian projects. In addition to financial donations, we often get involved through personal and active engagement on the ground.
We are pleased to make a positive contribution to society with our donations and to help shape the future.
Our Support
Support for chronically ill patients who are undergoing treatment at the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at Heidelberg University Hospital due to a long-term and serious illness. Since 2002, COURAGE has been developing and supporting a wide range of projects that serve as a source of strength and encouragement alongside medical care. These include, for example, complementary therapeutic services such as music therapy as well as activities to help shape everyday life in the clinic, such as visits by clinic clowns to the wards.
Support for the therapy camps for chronically ill children and the burnout camps run by the Auswege Foundation. Many children at the 36 camps, all of whom were chronically ill and “resistant to treatment” from a conventional medical perspective, made health improvements within eight to nine days that had not been seen for months or years – both in the opinion of the camp doctors and the patients themselves. In the Burnout Camp 2022, 85% of participants were “better” afterwards and in many cases even “much better”. 12 doctors, 9 alternative practitioners, 6 psychologists/psychotherapists, 23 healers, 22 other therapists (art, music, sound, dance, painting, occupational therapy, biofeedback, bioresonance, hippo, color light therapists, meditation teachers, masseurs, etc.) have worked on a voluntary basis over the years.
The vision of the non-profit organization Medicine and Humanity (MuM) is a caring change in society and especially in the healthcare system that leads to more humanity and interpersonal connection. MuM creates spaces for encounters and offers innovative teaching and learning opportunities.
We are supporting a research project at Essen University Hospital that is investigating the effect of yoga breathing exercises (pranayama) in trauma therapy. A study is investigating how pranayama emotionally stabilizes patients with post-traumatic stress disorder and improves tolerance to trauma exposure techniques. Initial results show that pranayama can reduce symptoms more effectively than conventional stabilization techniques.
Promotion of the tree saver primer for children. This primer deals with the trees that grow in the middle of our towns and villages. Children can learn about the superpowers of trees and how they can form tree friendships. The primer can be downloaded free of charge from the Baumretter e.V. website and ordered as a print copy.
Support for the unique aid organization “delfine therapieren menschen e.V.”, which provides animal-assisted therapy with dolphins for children and adults with physical and mental disabilities. The scientifically proven therapy concept pursues a holistic approach that encompasses people with all their strengths and weaknesses.
The WOB – World Open Brain VFG is a green and social academy for education, training and further education. It offers holistic health care and welfare, including psychological support for children, adolescents and adults as well as alternative healing and prevention methods through conscious nutrition with natural foods and remedies. Organic gardening, healthy regional cuisine with a focus on vegetarian and vegan food, music, mental training, self-defense, sports and the promotion of aesthetics through art support all participants.
Modern breast cancer treatment is stressful for the body, mind and soul, especially after treatment has been completed. The Mindfulness and Self-Compassion focused Walking project focuses on holistic healing based on scientific data and personal experience. In small groups, people affected by breast cancer learn how they can actively contribute to their own recovery alongside the established therapies. Appropriate physical activity and mindfulness for oneself are emphasized as an important contribution to the rest of one’s life.
Wandelraum is a non-profit organization for children, young people and adults, where people are accompanied on their individual path to their strength, health and potential. In addition to courses and workshops, therapy stays of several weeks are offered on a farm. The focus of the work is on nature, art, animals, body and mind in order to achieve the most holistic approach possible.
Caring & Healing is committed to bringing more humanity back into medicine and putting people at the center of treatment instead of symptoms.