Bodies
Members Assembly, Expert Advisory Boards, etc.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation has about 200 employees as well as 538 supporting members who provide both financial and non-material assistance.
Ralf Fücks and Barbara Unmüßig comprise the current Executive Board.
The members assembly, comprised of 49 persons, is the Foundation's foremost decision-making organ; its responsibilities include electing the Executive Board.
Expert advisory boards (9 persons) are staffed by independent experts who consult with the Foundation and formulate suggestions regarding conceptual issues raised in the educational programmes.
The Foundation's by-laws provide for a quota of women and immigrants on all the Foundation’s bodies and among its full-time staff.
Two additional bodies of the Foundation's educational work are the "Green Academy" and the "Gunda-Werner-Institute".
The Foundation currently maintains foreign and project offices in the Arab Middle East, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, India, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, the USA and an EU office in Brussels. A new foreign office in China is currently being planned.
For 2011, the Foundation had around 46 million € of public funds for projects at its disposal.
