Memberships and Cooperations

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
UN Global Compact (since 2008)
Diversity Charter (since 2007)
Fair Company
Stiftung Lesen Reading Foundation
Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications 
and New Media (BITKOM)
Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft 
Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft Cultural Society of German Business
Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics .
Society of Friends, Academy of the Arts, Berlin
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation – Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Board of Trustees
RTL Group
Groupe M6 (France)
Sidaction
M6 supports the “Sidaction” AIDS relief campaign on all its media platforms
RTL Belgium/RTL Letzebuerg
Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique − FRS-FNRS
All funds raised during the Télévie solidarity drive go to the Belgian National Fund to Promote Scientific Research, which in turn invests them in cancer research (since 1989).
RTL 4 (Netherlands)
UNICEF
RTL 4 devoted one week in November 2008 to calling attention to the UNICEF campaign “Clean Water For Every Child.”
Super RTL (Germany)
Stiftung Lesen Reading Foundation
Media Smart e. V.
Super RTL is a co-founder of the nonprofit initiative to promote media and advertising literacy among children (since 2004).
Stiftung RTL - Wir helfen Kindern (We Help Children) e.V.
Action medeor - Deutsches Medikamenten Hilfswerk (German Medical 
Aid Organization)
Caritas  
DAHW Deutsche Lepra- und Tuberkulosehilfe e.V. (German Leprosy 
Relief Association)
 
International Campaign for Tibet Germany
SOS Children’s Villages
World Childhood Foundation  
Random House
Verlagsgruppe Random House
Fair Company (since 2005)
Haus des Buches e.V. (House of Books) Leipzig Board of Trustees (since 1990)
Stiftung Buch-, Medien- und Literaturhaus (House of Books, Media and Literature Foundation), Munich (since 1993)   
Stiftung Junges Literaturhaus (House of Young Literature Foundation), Cologne (since 2008)  
Stiftung Lesen Reading Foundation (founding member, since 1988)
Random House UK
booktrust
Business in the Community  
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 
Kids Company 
MediaCSR Forum  
Publishers Association  
Publishers Green Network 
Quick Reads UK BA/PA Environmental Action Group 
Volunteer Reading Help 
World Book Day 
Gruner + Jahr
Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für umweltbewusstes Management (B.A.U.M.; German Workgroup for Environmentally Aware Management)  
Brown Printing
Energy Star“Energy Star” program administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Prisma Press
UN Global Compact 
Arvato
Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and 
New Media (BITKOM) 

Münchner Kreis – Supranational Association for Communications Research – Übernationale Vereinigung für Kommunikationsforschung e. V.
Worldwide Fund for Nature
Mohn Media Mohndruck GmbH
Syndicate for Economical and Environmentally Friendly Energy 
Consumption e.V. 
 
German Workgroup for Environmentally Aware Management (B.A.U.M.) e. V.
Friends and Sponsors of the Hochschule der Medien 
(University of the Media) e.V. 

Pro Recyclingpapier Initiative to promote the use of recycled paper 
GGP Media GmbH
Society of Friends and Sponsors, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Medienfabrik 
Kulturgemeinschaft Dreiecksplatz cultural society, Gütersloh  
Mohn Media Energy GmbH 
Bundesverband Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung e.V. (German CHP Association)  
Arvato Services CEE
Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and 
New Media (BITKOM)
Sonopress GmbH
Environmental Foundation of East Westphalian Business
Association of Company Environmental Officers

 

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