About us

The Amadeu Antonio Foundation is an independent non-governmental organization founded in 1998 with the goal of strengthening a democratic civic society that actively takes a stand against neo-Nazism, racism, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of bigotry and hatred in Germany. To achieve this goal, the Foundation funds local projects and campaigns in civic education, structures of support for victims of racist violence, alternative youth cultures, and community networks.

The most important task of the Foundation is to go beyond grant making in order to encourage projects to intensify their local work and to build networks and coalitions with other initiatives. In addition, the Foundation runs its own projects when it comes to drawing attention to neglected but important issues such as women in the neo-Nazi scene or the continuing effects of the different ways in which the Nazi past and the Holocaust were remembered in the two German states.

The Foundation also initiates projects in order to set the tone for differentiated, informed discussion of thorny issues, particularly in situations where different forms of bigotry come into interplay such as the issue of anti-Semitism among young immigrants who face racism and discrimination in Germany in general.