The Vodafone Foundation is one of the large company-related foundations in Germany and a member of a global family of foundations. As an independent, non-profit institution, it supports and initiates programmes as a sociopolitical thinktank with the goal of providing impetus for social progress, of fostering the development of an active civil society and of assuming socio-political responsibility. Focusing on the fields of education, integration, and social mobility, the foundation’s mission is to recognise challenges and chances, to give support and eventually to make a difference.