Do good in Hamburg
424 active pro bono opportunities with local organisations in Hamburg, Germany — donate, volunteer or share your skills.
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FundraisingHelp us: Place refugees in volunteer work & create prospects!
MITmacher gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)
MITmacher connects refugees with volunteer positions to strengthen participation. They receive a meaningful task, improve their German, gain work experience & get to know their new home country.
Donation🎄✨ Aktion Tannenbaum – Fulfilling Wishes, Spreading Joy ✨🎄
DER HAFEN HILFT! e.V.
With the Tannenbaum campaign, DER HAFEN HILFT! brings Christmas joy to social institutions. With your donation, we fulfill heartfelt wishes and take care of purchasing, wrapping and delivery. This is our way of showing: Someone was thinking of you. 🎄
FundraisingSave foals from the slaughterhouse! For many, the future is uncertain.
4 Hufe im Glück e.V.
Many foals face an uncertain future and could end up at the slaughterhouse. Until the last auction on 20 October, we want to save as many of them as possible and ensure their safe, species-appropriate care.
FundraisingRecognizing childhood dementia faster - Information from school doctors
NCL-Stiftung
Unfortunately, childhood dementia is often not recognized at an early stage. Affected families face a long odyssey through waiting rooms. We therefore want to use your support to inform school doctors about this rare condition.
VolunteeringCommitment to more community in Hamburg – be part of it as a tandem partner in
Start with a Friend e.V.
Start with a Friend connects immigrants and locals in tandems based on interests and needs. Ideally, a friendship develops from this; in any case, a social network is created that makes it easier for immigrants to start out in Germany. Start with a Friend accompanies and advises the tandems after the matching and organizes events to bring the tandems into contact with one another. It is also important to us to create structures in which people who are busy professionally and family-wise can also get involved. The time allocation is therefore…
DonationA trampoline for the family center
SOS-Kinderdorf Hamburg
For our playground, we would like a new trampoline. It not only brings children a great deal of joy, but also encourages movement, shared experiences and carefree play.
DonationGrief support for families after the death of a child
Verwaiste Eltern und Geschwister Hamburg e.V.
When a child dies, grief remains. Your donation helps ensure that parents and siblings do not face it alone: it enables grief groups, children's groups and personal support. Reliably and beyond the initial shock.
DonationThe future needs roots – renovation of the display greenhouses
Stiftung Universität Hamburg
The showcase greenhouses at Dammtor in the heart of Hamburg are in urgent need of renovation. Help preserve the exceptional diversity of tropical plants and make them accessible to everyone after the heritage-appropriate renovation.
FundraisingKids in Motion
Westwind Hamburg e.V.
Bicycles for kids. Outings and workshops. Ensuring mobility for children and young people in socially precarious situations.
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DonationSecure storage for our youth boats – trestle system [insert project title]
Wassersport Verein Elbe e.V.
We need a new storage and rack system for our youth and training boats worth approximately 15,000 Euro. This will allow us to store our boats safely, prevent damage and maintain the youth fleet in the long term. Public funding an
FundraisingSleeping bags save lives! Bergedorfer Engel e.V.
Bergedorfer Engel e.V
Bergedorfer Engel Obdachlosenhilfe e.V
DonationWarm-up shirts for the youth - FC St. Pauli Handball
FC St. Pauli Handball
New warm-up shirts for our handball youth! 🤍🤎 Support the handball youth of FC St. Pauli on the way to new warm-up shirts. Every euro counts and helps us to equip our young players uniformly and with even more team spirit.
Ways to help
Four practical ways to support Hamburg
Volunteer locally
Join an organisation in person for a few hours a week.
90 offers
Donate to a listed cause
Support a listed local organisation through their own page.
60 offers
Support a campaign
Back a current fundraising effort run by a local organisation.
274 offers
Offer professional skills
Contribute legal, design, language or technical support pro bono.
How to help in Hamburg
Pick your path
About Hamburg
How Hamburg helps — and how you can take part
Hamburg's nonprofit sector is shaped by its port history and its strong tradition of civic responsibility. Established institutions such as Hamburger Tafel, Diakonie and Hinz&Kunzt sit alongside grassroots initiatives in homelessness support, harbour-area community projects and migrant integration.
If you live in Hamburg or the surrounding region, you can volunteer locally, donate to a listed Hamburg organisation or contribute professional skills — many initiatives explicitly look for legal, design or language support.
The opportunities on this page are aggregated from public NGO directories and a curated list of established Hamburg charities, reviewed before publishing and updated daily.
Causes
What Hamburg-based NGOs work on
Poverty & Hunger opportunities in Hamburg
115 offers
Education opportunities in Hamburg
107 offers
Health & Wellbeing opportunities in Hamburg
56 offers
Climate & Environment opportunities in Hamburg
47 offers
Arts & Culture opportunities in Hamburg
40 offers
Technology for Good opportunities in Hamburg
31 offers
Animal Welfare opportunities in Hamburg
13 offers
Refugees & Migration opportunities in Hamburg
10 offers
Mental Health opportunities in Hamburg
4 offers
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FAQ
Common questions about helping in Hamburg
How can I volunteer in Hamburg?+
Browse the opportunities on this page and click through to the organisation you'd like to join. Most listings include direct application or contact details. There is no doing-good.org middle step — you sign up with the organisation directly.
Can I donate to Hamburg organisations instead of volunteering?+
Yes. Many listed opportunities are donation campaigns from local organisations. Donations go directly to the organisation through their own page — we don't process or hold funds.
How are Hamburg opportunities selected for this directory?+
Each listed organisation is checked to make sure it is a real, publicly identifiable NGO or community initiative. We don't endorse individual projects beyond confirming the source, but we exclude duplicates and unverifiable entries.
Can I support Hamburg organisations remotely?+
Yes — many opportunities, especially donations and some pro bono services (legal advice, design, translation, tutoring online), can be offered remotely. Look for listings tagged 'pro bono' or 'donation' if you can't be physically present.
How often are opportunities updated?+
The directory refreshes daily from our sources. New opportunities appear within 24 hours of being published on the source platform; listings that are removed or expired are filtered out automatically.
I run a nonprofit in Hamburg — can we be listed?+
Yes, listings are free. Use the 'For organizations' link in the header to submit your opportunity, or write to info@doing-good.org. We review submissions to keep the directory trustworthy.
Browse active opportunities from organisations working in Hamburg. Listings link to each organisation's own page, where you can check current details and next steps.
Availability, eligibility and next steps may vary by organisation. Updated from active listings.
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