On Saturday 23/10/2010 honored the National Association of Joint BZ in Berlin and her team for the development of the page "Berlin's Heroes" and the related website the BZ.
The annual thank you brunch of the Berlin Regional Association of the Joint for deserving volunteers in Sylt Court welcomed the Landesveorsitzende Prof. John the BZ- team. After a welcome speech by State Secretary Erin Monika Helbig, the Commissioner for civic engagement in the country of Berlin was the manager of the DPW Berlin, Oswald Menninger the eulogy. With these words, he justified the award of the BZ team with a silver pin of volunteering Paritätiaschen Berlin:
Wolfgang Saurin developed with his team in the spring of 2009, the concept to an unprecedented commitment series, which started in October 2009 in the BZ with the title "Berlin heroes." The volunteers and projects in the voluntary work should be offered a long-term media platform to recognize the social commitment in the city and bring to a wider audience.
The initially planned action for three months could become an occasion to celebrate its first anniversary. Berlin's hero team has succeeded impressively in that time, an interesting and balanced mix of the many aspects to form of volunteering.
Every day throughout and double-sided reports engagement projects presented, published applications and appeals and always portrays a heroine or a hero of the day. The readers are informed about projects, contact details and contact information and encouraged to become active themselves.
total, will be presented by the editors and more than 1,800 heroes are mobilized, the heroes have done over 12,000 hours over the BZ 400 engagement projects. Several times the staff of the BZ-editors were active.
A special feature for a media project of this size should be emphasized that the team has included the BZ from the beginning experts from the Berlin area in partnership commitment to the editorial work. This cooperative approach could direct contacts in the social field are taught and developed in a positive and confident manner.
is also outstanding, the specially designed website of the Berlin heroes "with a database to find volunteer opportunities and use of the proud balance of more than 60,000 visitors. The Berlin office hero and Frank Hartmann as an employee and a reliable contact for readers and all kinds of questions the BZ has also created a column that supported the project quality.
The Berlin heroes action will contribute to a wide readership in the subject voluntary social engagement may be sensitized and excited. Many volunteers active people of this city is bestowed with the hero portraits special attention, with a deep gratitude is connected. The many commitment-makers in this town is offered a media platform that this continuity did not exist before.
The Joint BZ thanks the editors and senior Peter Huth and Michael Pagel, as the tabloid this topic daily for a year so much space and so many resources in the long term provides. We also thank the editors of the Berlin series hero, Daniel Schalz and Björn Trautwein, who with empathy and respect the social projects and the individuals approached and also difficult topics have devoted sensitive. They have managed to win over the long period of reporting, the confidence of the parties and establish firm and reliable contacts. To thank
is Bettina Suckert-John and Anne Liedtke of the marketing department of the BZ, the company that made the Berlin Heldenbär an attractive brand with high recognition value, and has extensive poster campaigns and radio and TV ads promoted publicity for the Berlin heroic action. Not to mention an almost 30-page documentation of this unique and unprecedented media project in the voluntary sector clearly reflected and presented. "
this here expressed thanks we can join the team of Ehrenmtsblogs us wholeheartedly. The" Berliner heroes "are a great idea.
