Actions are stronger than words

A part of our earnings goes to fund charitable and community projects on the Internet and in the environment.

Current donation amount: more than $25,000

another $32,000 for kiva.org

Action: Blind schools & collection campaign

As we do every year, we are supporting various schools for the blind and visually impaired with discounted licenses and launching a fundraising campaign for the local charity shop. (November 2025)

Action: Kinderplanet

We support the Association for the Support of Children with Cancer Halle (Saale) with a small donation. The association provides psychosocial counseling and support for children and adolescents with cancer and their families at the Villa Kinderplanet (Children's Planet). The University Hospital Halle (Saale) and Kinderplanet become a temporary home for the families. Both institutions work closely together and are in constant exchange. (June 2024)

Action: 100 oak trees planted

We are planting 100 oak trees in the south Harz foreland and thus support sustainable forest conversion in the Harz. As a result of the last dry years and the associated bark beetle infestation, a site-appropriate, stable and species-rich mixed forest is being created, also with a view to climate change. As a native tree species, the oak is very well adapted to the local, but already relatively dry, site conditions. (February 2024)

Action: Children and young people with disabilities

Supporting disadvantaged children and young people is important to us. This week we donated a school license for the TypingCenter at the special education special school in Olten in Switzerland. 170 children and young people with disabilities (mental or behavioral) between the ages of 4 and 18 are taught there. (January 2024)

Action: wildflowers

We help WILDLAND to sustainably grow native wildflowers to promote biodiversity. (January 2023)

Action: People with disabilities

We support the German Aktion Mensch, which promotes a self-determined life for people with disabilities and equal opportunities for children and young people. To this end, Aktion Mensch supports social projects that improve the living conditions for people with disabilities, children and young people or people in particular social difficulties. (December 2022)

$25,000 support for kiva

Over the past few years, we have supported kiva with a total of more than $25,000. Kiva is a nonprofit organization that provides microloans to small farms and individuals, primarily in developing countries. Through Kiva's work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment and families can afford needed emergency care. Microcredit is based on the ideas of Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. (June 2022)

We support the 'Germany's Relief Coalition'

We donate 500 EUR for humanitarian aid in crisis areas to the Germany's Relief Coalition. 'Germany's Relief Coalition' is the alliance of renowned German aid organizations such as Malteser, Johanniter, World Vision Germany, Der Paritätische, Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, AWO, etc. (March 2022)

1,000 trees

We have now donated a further 192 oaks, wild apples and bird cherries for reforestation in the southern Harz region. With this project, we are supporting sustainable forest conversion in the Harz Mountains. In recent years, we have planted a total of 1,000 trees. (October 2021)

We are among the biggest WWF Online supporters of 2020

Neuber Software raised $2,200 in funds for World Wildlife Fund (WWF), making us one of the major WWF online supporters of 2020. We want to help protect the future of nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth. (December 2020)

coolearth.org

We support coolearth.org. Cool Earth is considered the most cost-effective international non-governmental organization (NGO) actively engaged in climate protection. (October 2020)

Sponsorship for a tree avenue

We're donating 300 Euros for the youth sports center in our hometown. It aims to create a space for alternative sports and youth culture, where young people can try out many modern sports, culture and creativity programs. The initiator of the project is the Trendsportring network of the congrav non-profit association, which has been successfully active as a sports club and independent youth welfare organization for more than 10 years. (July 2019)

Sponsorship for a tree avenue

We support the local non-profit association Kleinfolgenreich with 150 Euros for the care of 250 trees along a village avenue. The association is also committed to the preservation of bees and organizes courses for school classes. (January 2019)

Webmonday/Barcamp

We are a sponsor of the Webmonday in our region. The aim is to bring together and promote young people in the fields of the digital economy in our hometown. Furthermore, we have initiated a programming competition for students together with the University of Halle-Wittenberg and sponsor the first prize. (Summer 2018)

Changing Cities

We support Changing Cities for a more environmentally friendly and bicycle-friendly transport policy. (November 2018)

betterplace.org

We give a small donation to betterplace.org. (January 2017)

Tree Sponsorship in Halle

We are participating in the city of Halle's Tree Sponsorship program, to ensure that our city will continue to be one of the greenest in Germany. We are contributing EUR 250 ($280). Together with other contributions, this will go towards planting four elm trees on the Mühlrain. (May 2016)

We help people who need life-changing health care

We have been supporters of Watsi.org since 2013. This non-profit organization helps people in all parts of the world who need life-changing medical treatment but cannot afford it. (March 2015)

We've joined the Club of 1000

We have become members of the Club of 1000, a volunteer organization supporting leisure activities for young soccer players, and we are contributing 200 Euros toward the rehabilitation of a playing field in the north of Halle. (May 2014)

Action: Kinderherzkammer

We have donated 200 Euros to the Kinderherzkammer (Children's Heart Chamber) organization, founded in 2003 by pediatric nurses and parents of children suffering from heart disease. This group provides help and companionship to the affected children and their families. It finances regular appearances by clowns and age-appropriate leisure activities during inpatient stays. (December 2013)

Action: Flood Assistance

We have been helping by filling sandbags and contributing to the cleanup effort since the flood. Halle on the Saale was struck with the worst flooding in 400 years. The city of Halle has set up a fund to receive donations, in case you would like to help. (June 2013)

Top 1% of kiva.org supporters

Neuber Software is now in the top 1% of kiva.org supporters. kiva.org is a non-profit organization that makes it possible to support people in developing countries through microcredits. Since 2007, we and Kiva have regularly made interest-free funds available. The concept of microfinancing is based on the ideas of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, who showed in Bangladesh how microcredits offer significant advantages over other forms of financial support. (May 2013)

Action: Regional contributions

We contribute 100 EUR to the service organization "Goldberg" for the advancement of disadvantaged persons, and 20 children's life vests for a day-care center (February 2013)

Action: Our software for the visually impaired or disadvantaged

At regular intervals, we provide our keyboarding tutorial "Der Schreibtrainer" free of charge to schools for the blind and visually impaired, as well as to other disabled persons. The total value of these contributions in already in the mid-4-digit range. To this sum, we're now adding another 1000 Euros (September 2012)

Action: Winter collection

The recent cold wave has prompted us to start a collection of winter apparel. Several crates with warm clothes have already been provided to the low-income clothing store in Halle (February 2012)

Action: Children's Day

We have donated 400 EUR to develop new table tennis players and to support the Saxony-Anhalt championship. As in other cases, neither we nor our family members belong to the groups in question, nor do we derive any benefits as the result of our contributions (June 2011)

Action: 500 oak and beech trees

Together with Iplantatree.org we are now planting 250 oak trees and 250 beech trees in Halle on one hectare of fallow land in the Nietleben district. Says Michael Bahr from Iplantatree.org: "This is amazing! We are unbelievably happy, since these trees don't exactly come cheap." (January 2011)

Action: Wikipedia & FFII

We are donating 100 EUR each to Wikipedia and to the Association for a Free Information Infrastructure to keep the Internet free now and in the future. (December 2010)

Action: Elbe Riparian Forest

The WWF plants indigenous trees on over 400 sq. m. of riparian forest along the middle Elbe. (July 2010)

Action: Hard of hearing

We contribute 1000 EUR to the Center for the Hard of Hearing in Halle, which is about to move into its new building, and to the German Sports Association for the Deaf. (January 2010)

Action: 200 trees

We are planting 200 sycamore trees in the Ruebeland area of the upper Harz Mountains to reforest land damaged by the Hurricane Kyrill in 2007. This puts us among the top contributors recognized by www.iplantatree.org. (August 2009)

Action: Sumatra tigers

We donate 300 EUR to the WWF to help protect the last of the Sumatra tigers. (December 2008)

Action: Toys for disabled children

We donate 400 EUR for toys for Early Support of Life Assistance in Halle. This organization is a member of the federal union and the Saxony-Anhalt association of Life Assistance for the Mentally and Multiply Disabled. (September 2008)

Action: KAHUZA e.V.

We contribute 400 EUR to KAHUZA, which helps poor and needy children, as well as children who have been victims of violence. (September 2008)

Action: Wikipedia

We contribute 200 EUR to wikipedia.org. Wikipedia promotes free access to all of human knowledge. (August 2008)

Action: Kiva.org

For each comment that you leave on our Windows process page, we will donate one dollar to kiva.org. This money is used to support families and small businesses principally in developing countries through so-called microfinancing.

Action: patentfrei

We donate 250 EUR to patentfrei.de an initiative of small and midsized German enterprises that advocate against the patenting of computer programs. (November 2007)

Action: Luther Foundation

We donate 1000 EUR to the Luther Foundation. This non-profit foundation promotes scientific work at the IAPP of the Technical University of Dresden. (January 2007)

Action: Tree planting

Together with Halle's Acting Mayor Dr. Klaus Rauen, we plant 5 linden trees in the Anniversary Grove as part of Halle's 1200th Anniversary. (mid-2005)

Action: Peissnitzhaus e.V.

We donate 200 EUR to the Peissnitzhaus e.V. (mid-2005)

Action: Planet Children

We donate 750 EUR to the "Union for the Support of Children with Cancer". (late 2005)

Action: Early Childhood Support

We donate 770 EUR for facilities needed by various charitable programs for children (mid-2005). We donate another 350 EUR in 2006.

Previous actions

By 2004, we had spent a 4-digit sum to support Doctors Without Borders, for the victims of flooding on the Oder River, for the "Light into the Dark" telethon, and for various other causes.

Continuing Actions

We support the education of our godchild in Mali with 30 EUR contribution each month.

We donate 100 EUR each year to the European Organization FFII, which promotes the neutrality and the open structure of the Internet.

THANK YOU

In the name of children and the organizers of these activities, we would like to thank all of our customers, because it is only your use of our software that makes all of these charitable and Internet projects possible.