Your ImpactFund
Previously, if you cared in detail about what happens with your donation, you would have to start a new charitable foundation. To be viable, such a step typically requires $1–$5 mio.1, plus complex legal oversight, quality assurance audits, and ongoing compliance.
The new way of giving
Starting your ImpactFund at the Assistance Dog Foundation is the effortless alternative:
Enjoy the same impact and transparency on autopilot! Name your personal ImpactFund and define your priorities within our broad portfolio of high-impact, quality-assured projects — fully tax deductible, of course. It’s a new way of giving sometimes also known as “donor advised funds” (DAF).
Transparent and easy
Our work focuses on qualified assistance dog teams, validated by an ISO-aligned external team certification. We engage in open dialogue with all stakeholders, while always making sure to remain strictly independent.
Everything we accomplish in your name, down to the last cent, is visible in your impact portfolio, your personal, secure web portal. If you prefer, we can, of course, also send you updates at regular intervals in the mail.
Simply sit back and enjoy the results of your generosity.
Establish your own Fund
Start your Impact Fund with as little as € 10,000 and grow it step-by-step as your confidence grows. We designed it this way to keep everything easy and fun.
Curious? Let’s meet and find out what is important to you. Together, we can identify the best projects within our portfolio of projects and future program launches.
Are you fascinated by assistance dog teams? Do you love dogs and wonder how to support these unique partnerships?
Our work is rooted in respect for both handler and dog and deep care for their well-being. To establish quality standards that support this, we established the first universally valid, independent certification for assistance dog teams.
In a very improvised sector, focusing on qualified teams ensures that your funds are well invested. This focus on quality is also what will advance the concept globally and secure its future.
A lasting legacy
Your Impact Fund comes with a donation link for easy sharing. Invite others to join your legacy. This makes it easy to keep impact growing, long into the future.
Spotlight
Ms. Engel lives in a retirement home in Germany, without close family bonds. She was looking for a meaningful plan for her legacy. Just donating her life’s savings or signing them away in her will seemed highly impersonal and unsatisfying.
Contacting nonprofits resulted in glossy mailings and donation forms. What kind of impact that would create remained unclear and hidden behind slogans. Following a meeting with us, she created three Impact Funds supporting self-financed assistance dog teams in Germany.
She named them Engel Funds (German for “angel”) and invites you to contribute. She is not interested in the digital world, so she receives her updates via postal mail, which she enjoys.
Angel Fund III supports assistance dog candidate Fredi.
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