Author archives: Denis Drescher

The PDF file linked below details our balances for 2011 in accordance with § 4(3) EStG (Income Tax Act), which regulates the use of a simplified method of profit assessment, referred to as the net income or cash method of accounting. Despite the term “profit,” our profit, of course, is required to be exactly zero.

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Just as last year, Your Siblings is again organizing a Christmas campaign, which will run from December 1 to December 25. If you enjoy creating art, this may be just the thing for you. (Talent is optional; it’s the spirit that counts.)

The theme is as follows:

Our name, Your Siblings, is to remind everyone to care for those in need, though often far away, like they were siblings. In our Christmas campaign, we want to encourage you to create a picture or video that conveys this message artistically.

Supported by Bronies for Good

The images or videos needn’t be pony-related, by the way, but the show is surely a fount of inspiration. They will be presented in a gallery in this post.

Naturally, we are doing all this to drum up support for our projects. If you can’t make an artistic contribution, please consider making a monetary one. We will forward every last cent of your donation.

So be inspired and send us your artwork or links to it. We will of course give full attribution.

(For the opening image I drew on works by Arvyr and Theresa Knott. Thanks!)

Update: Have a look at our ...

On October 29, 2011, the general assembly has unanimously elected me, Denis Drescher, as new second chair of Your Siblings. Thank you.

Lisa Wiese of course continues her work as first chair.

The clinic has been plastered and looks just splendid now, ready for fixtures, medical supplies, and soon also patients.

Last year, we asked musicians, artists, and our kind visitors in general to submit such works as songs, videos, or images in which they raise awareness for us and the project A Clinic in Uganda. We then published those works on a Tumblr dedicated to this purpose. Feel free to browse our collection.

Now it’s about time to start planning this year’s Christmas campaign. If you have an interesting idea for what we may do, please let us know. Thank you.

As of October 2014, this explanation is obsolete. Our projects are now typically going to be managed through Betterplace, so that we had to change our algorithms to conform to Betterplace’s simpler system.

Our donation system only knows one type of donation, the donation on individual needs. This ensures that you’ll always have the most fine-grained control over your donation. In addition to this per-need donation, however, our website allows you to donate per project and now even globally on all projects. To reconcile this, the broader donations need to be algorithmically broken down to the level of per-need donations. Depending on whether the donation is per project or global, we use different kinds of algorithms.

The Algorithms

If you make a donation for a specific need, the money is assigned to that need. If you donate more than the need requires, the remainder is added to your project donation.

The aim of the project-level algorithm is to get things done, as it were: Your project donation is assigned to the smallest need. If there is a remainder, it is assigned to the next larger need, and so on.

On the global level, however, we need to be ...

The revenue board has confirmed our non-profit status until December 31, 2013. In the interest of maximum transparency, we are making the certificates publicly available. Unfortunately, they are in German only—apologies for that.

This is the office that Your Siblings now operates from. Fluffy, isn’t it?

The German magazine Behind, Inside & Extravagant has just published an interview with Lisa Wiese, the principal founder of Your Siblings.

The questions and answers touch on personal motivations for development aid, our perception of society, and the contrasts between life in industrialized and developing countries.