Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige

The Society for the good and profit Basel, GGG short, is a private, socially and culturally active club in Basel. Currently, about 90 organizations with more than 3,000 volunteers and working professionals the GGG are connected.

Structure

In the company of three different types of organizations are represented:

A- organizations

These are dependent GGG own institutions, which are run by committees, who are elected by the board of GGG. These include, inter alia,

• GGG City Library of Basel
• GGG Benevol - Centre for Volunteering
• GGG Observatory integration
• GGG office for tax returns

B- organizations

These are independent institutions that are significantly supported by the GGG, or in which the Company is involved in their governance and their governing bodies are elected wholly or majority by the Board of GGG. These include, inter alia,

• Accomodation Service for Students
• Children's Foundation friend (social housing )
• Foundation Lighthouse Basel
• Various patronages

C- organizations

These are independent institutions which are under the patronage of the GGG and make at least one delegate for the governing bodies of the executive committee of the GGG. These include, inter alia,

• Knabenkantorei Basel
• Wishing table
• Parents emergency
• Alzheimer's Association Basel

History

The club was founded in 1777 by Isaak Iselin and other Baslern as a society for the encouragement and promotion of good and charitable. The purpose was to promote the education of the underprivileged sections of the population and the alleviation of widespread poverty. Comparable still existing companies of the Enlightenment emerged at the same time in other cities such as Hamburg (Patriotic Society of 1765 ) and in Lübeck (Society for the promotion of community service ).

The founding statutes of 1777 see as a target:

• The promotion, encouragement and spread all that well what laudable, what is profit, which may increase the happiness of the citizen and of man in general, has a right to society's attention.

Thus, the association founded the Girls' School (1780 ), the female labor school ( 1879) and several kindergartens, which were taken over by the state later. In addition, the non-profit led a gymnastics and swimming as well as public music and drawing lessons in the Basel schools. The GGG built the first swimming and bathhouse for men in 1831 and was instrumental in the creation of many hospitals and institutions for the mentally and physically disabled. Man engaged intensively for social housing and founded a savings and life insurance.