The Lawaetz-Foundation offers by order of the Hamburg department for economic and labour affairs extensive individual advice, coaching and training measures. Our target group are especially unemployed people or those who are threatened by unemployment, who want to set-up their own business. The aim of our start-up advice which started in 1986 is to deliver all the items connected to business start-ups and self-employment as extensively and independently as possible: from the basic knowledge about checking the feasibility of business plans up to financing. In this context we also offer regularly short-time and daily training measures to future entrepreneurs who can gain an overview of the main aspects of business start-ups.

We want to support promising and sustainable start-ups. Our experience: the more intensive the preparation, the greater is the chance to succeed.

Besides that, this approach also includes the presentation of alternative professional orientation, since not every start-up idea turns out to be feasible. The consultancy team enjoys a great demand: In 2003 more than 400 interested people took advantage of the individual consultation.

But even within the first months after the business start-up the Lawaetz-Foundation supports the founders of a new business with help and advice. This includes the implementation of business know-how as well as individual advice in all matters of business administration

In addition to the individual consultation the foundation also supports future entrepreneurs in applying for private or public loans and micro-lending funds, especially via the Hamburg “Micro-Lending Funds to Support the Founding of Companies en miniature by Unemployed People”. Since it became more and more difficult for people to establish their own business with the help of a bank, a special significance has to be attached to this program.

 

Contact:
Johann Daniel Lawaetz-Foundation
Consultancy team for business start-ups
Neumühlen 16-20
D 22763 Hamburg

phone: +49 - 40 - 39 99 36 – 36

e-mail: existenzgruendung@lawaetz.de