Welcome to the website of Prof. Dr. Michael Göring
Prof. Dr. Michael Göring is CEO and president of the board of the Hamburg-based foundation ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Since 2000, he has been honorary professor at the Cultural and Media Management Institute at the Hamburg School of Music and Theatre.
Enterprise Foundation. Donating with Heart and Mind
This book offers a brief introduction into foundation matters. Easy to read, it conveys the great satisfaction of donating your money or managing a foundation. There is an answer to each and every practical question: How does a foundation work? What judicial aspects are to be taken into consideration? How do I run a foundation in a professional and efficient way? How to make professional marketing?
Michael Göring’s book „Enterprise Foundation“ is a must for everybody in foundation business, an important support for advisors in this field, and at the same time a compass for potential donators. Profound knowledge combined with many years of experience, focused, well written and stimulating. Although the subtitle seems to suggest it, this book is not simply about founding, but above all about the impact of foundations. It is a new standard work in the field of foundations and more readable than the majority of such books. (Customer review at amazon.de)
Taking a walk through Hamburg - Germany's capital of foundations
No other Land of the Federal Republic of Germany has more foundations per capita as Hamburg. Take your time to follow in the founders' footsteps within this German capital of foundations: You can take a look at the small and the big, the old and the very new foundations, and you will learn a lot about the typical republican spirit of this town and its citizens.
"This book is a wonderful opportunity to discover Hamburg in a new way. You do not have to be an expert on foundations to delight in this book." (Customer review at amazon.de)
