In der Gemeinde leben

What In der Gemeinde leben does

In der Gemeinde leben gGmbH (IGL) is a Düsseldorf-based non-profit (gemeinnützige GmbH) founded in 2002 that supports approximately 200 people with cognitive, multiple, and acquired brain disabilities across more than 100 active locations in Düsseldorf. The organization operates an integrated service portfolio spanning residential care (Matthias-Claudius-Häuser in Wersten and Flingern, the 14-bed Haus Am Falder for acquired brain injuries, the Kempgensweg complex), ambulatory assisted living (Ambulant Betreutes Wohnen, serving ~70 people in their own apartments), counseling (KoKoBe), and a constellation of community-integration programs including PIKSL Labor (digital inclusion lab), PIKSL mobil (mobile digital training), the Fahrradwerkstatt Eller bicycle workshop, the Quartiers-Rikschas rickshaw fleet, the Bauwagen neighborhood garden, and a parallel tandem bicycle.

The organization's technology and innovation layer centers on the PIKSL franchise — a peer-led digital inclusion model where people with disabilities serve as instructors — augmented by the in-development KITT AI-for-Participation system, capito NRW (Easy Language translation services as a wholly-owned subsidiary), and the HLth.care staff scheduling application. Service delivery is co-located with the Klient:innen-Vertretung (elected client representation) and structured around the Index für Partizipation framework (26 topics, 330 questions co-developed with BeB).

IGL is jointly owned by Diakonie Düsseldorf and v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel, with no external equity investors. Revenue is primarily derived from statutory social insurance reimbursements under Germany's Eingliederungshilfe framework, supplemented by project-based grants (notably a €2.4M SKala Initiative award in 2017 to scale PIKSL), smaller philanthropic contributions (Aktion Mensch, PORSCHE Stiftung, ALDI SÜD, Rheinwohnungsbau), and donations. The go-to-market is community-led: IGL depends on municipal referrals, social services assessments, and trust within the Düsseldorf disability ecosystem rather than direct sales. Leadership has been jointly held by co-CEOs Andreas Diederichs (a founding member) and Tobias Lamers (joined July 2023, replacing Catrin Dreyer).

Name

In der Gemeinde leben

Legal name

In der Gemeinde leben gGmbH (IGL)

Website

https://igl-duesseldorf.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

In der Gemeinde leben gGmbH (IGL) is a Düsseldorf-based non-profit, founded in 2002, that supports approximately 200 people with cognitive and multiple disabilities through residential housing, ambulatory assisted living, and community-integration programs including the PIKSL digital inclusion franchise.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Disability Social Care Services

NAICS

Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities (62321), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (6243), Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities (623210)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Skilled Nursing Care Facilities (8051), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Disability Services & Assistive Solutions (Accessibility, Assistive Tech) (BPAGALAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Self-Advocacy & Self-Determination Training (EDAKANAI), Assistive Technology (AT) Access & AAC Access Support (OT-Led) (EDAKAFAG)

Keywords

• Disability support services
• Assisted living services
• Community participation programs
• Digital inclusion training
• Social non-profit care

Headquarters

HQ city

Düsseldorf

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Social Services Funding (gesetzliche Sozialleistungen): Core services are funded through public health insurance and social services (Eingliederungshilfe) under German social law. This includes ambulatory assisted living (Ambulant Betreutes Wohnen), residential facilities, and day structure offerings.
2. Project Grants and Donations: Special projects receive funding through grants (Aktion Mensch, SKala Initiative, etc.) and donations. These fund innovation projects like PIKSL, mobility equipment, and neighborhood projects.
3. Donations: The organization accepts charitable donations to support innovative work and enhance services beyond what public funding covers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

In der Gemeinde leben gGmbH (IGL) is a Düsseldorf-based non-profit that advises and supports people with cognitive and multiple disabilities through ambulatory assisted living, collective residential facilities, day-structure programs, and digital participation services. Its portfolio spans housing, counseling, mobility solutions, and innovative projects such as PIKSL Labor and Wir machen mit!, all aimed at enabling self-determined lives within the community.

Product overview

In der Gemeinde leben gGmbH (IGL) operates a multi-module social services portfolio organized around residential, outpatient, and community-based support for people with cognitive and multiple disabilities. The core offering spans collective housing facilities (Matthias-Claudius-Häuser, Haus Am Falder, Kempgensweg), outpatient assisted living (Ambulant Betreutes Wohnen), and specialized advisory services (KoKoBe). A flagship digital-inclusion pillar is built around the PIKSL Labor (physical lab) and its mobile variant PIKSL mobil, which deliver peer-led digital media education. Community integration is served through the 'Wir machen mit!' neighborhood project, an inclusive bicycle workshop, Quartiers-Rikschas, a construction-trailer neighborhood garden, and a parallel tandem bicycle — all designed to promote participation in the social space. A language-accessibility sub-brand (capito NRW) produces Easy Language translations, and a nascent vocational-participation division is under development. These products are unified by IGL's founding mission to support self-determination and equal participation for people with disabilities in the community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PIKSL Labor Düsseldorf: Digital inclusion laboratory where people with cognitive disabilities learn digital skills and participate in social and technical innovation
• PIKSL mobil
• KoKoBe
• Ambulante Dienste
• Gemeinschaftliche Wohnformen
• capito NRW
• Wir machen mit!

Products and services

• PIKSL Labor Düsseldorf Digital participation laboratory where people with cognitive disabilities learn to use digital media through peer-to-peer education, with people with learning difficulties acting as peer lecturers.
• PIKSL mobil Mobile digital participation service bringing digital media education to immobile people with disabilities living in residential facilities, with up to 8 participants supported by PIKSL peer experts and a media pedagogy specialist.
• KoKoBe (Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle) Coordination, contact and advisory service for people with disabilities covering housing, leisure and work, providing both independent counseling and peer counseling services.
• Ambulante Dienste (Ambulant Betreutes Wohnen) Outpatient assisted living services enabling people with disabilities to live in their own apartments with individualized support, plus intensive outpatient care areas with shared living arrangements.
• Gemeinschaftliche Wohnformen (Stationäre Wohnangebote)
• Projekt Wir machen mit! Inclusive neighborhood project in Wersten and Flingern promoting barrier-free community participation, organizing neighborhood events, and advocating for accessible public spaces and social inclusion.
• Fahrradwerkstatt Eller Bicycle workshop offering day-structuring activities for people with disabilities, where participants repair bicycles, create art from old bicycle parts, and go on excursions, located at renatec in Eller.
• Quartiers-Rikschas (Flotte Lotte) Inclusive neighborhood rickshas enabling mobility-restricted people from residential facilities and the elderly to participate in community life and outings, operated as part of the 'Radeln ohne Alter' network.
• capito NRW Text simplification service within IGL that translates complex information into Easy Language (Leichte Sprache), making written content accessible to people with cognitive disabilities; part of the capito network.
• Teilhabe am Arbeitsleben (Berufliche Teilhabe) Dedicated business area aimed at creating innovative and personalized vocational participation opportunities for people with disabilities beyond existing employment options in Düsseldorf.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 support locations active in Düsseldorf
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Zero Project / Essl FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2020Zero Project, initiated by the non-profit Essl Foundation, awarded PIKSL mobil the Zero Project Award 2020. The initiative aims to strengthen the rights of people with disabilities globally. The award ceremony took place at the UN headquarters in Vienna.
• Siemens MobilityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation project with Siemens Mobility to develop a prototype facilitating travel for people with cognitive impairments, making travel easier for everyone.
• Hochschule NiederrheinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for Wintersemester 2023/24 where PIKSL collaborated with Prof. Dr. Sarah Altmann's Social Work department. Students received business fundamentals training using Social Business Model Canvas methodology.
• Rheinwohnungsbau GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHousing company that collaborated with IGL on the Quartiersrikscha project. Won joint Förderpreis (grant prize) in sustainability category. Co-funded the Sermer Weg residential quarter in Lierenfeld where IGL clients live.
• Radeln ohne Alter e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince January 2019, IGL project 'Wir machen mit!' is officially a member of 'Radeln ohne Alter Deutschland', bringing the rikshaw concept for elderly and mobility-restricted people to Düsseldorf.
• Vereinigte Nations Büro Wien / G3ictminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIGL participated in Zero Project Conference 2019 at UN Office Vienna, conducting workshops on EU elections for people with learning difficulties. G3ict is the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT, an initiative of the United Nations.
• capito NetzwerkminorStrategic or Co-development Partnercapito NRW, a division of IGL, is a partner in the capito network for easy-to-read information (Leichte Sprache), providing translations and training in plain language.
• Diakonie DüsseldorfcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCo-founder and shareholder of IGL (Diakonie Düsseldorf – Gemeindedienst der evangelischen Kirchengemeinden e.V.). Provides infrastructure, referral networks, and operational support.
• v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen BethelcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCo-founder and shareholder of IGL. Major Bielefeld-based disability services provider supporting IGL operations.
• Bundesverband evangelische Behindertenhilfe (BeB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIGL participated in developing the 'Index für Partizipation' - a questionnaire framework (26 topics, 330 questions) helping facilities develop inclusion and participation. IGL's Parti-Team trained as Mitbestimmungsberater:innen (co-determination consultants) for the MEHR MIT-BESTIMMEN project.
• Urban Sports ClubminorOthersPartnership providing sports and wellness offerings for IGL employees as part of employee benefits.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Helfende Hände gGmbH: Smaller Bavarian non-profit providing residential and ambulatory services for people with severe disabilities. Comparable service model and target population but operates in a different German region (Munich area) without direct Düsseldorf overlap.

Direct peers

• capito Deutschland: Network for Easy Language (Leichte Sprache) translation and accessibility services in Germany, of which IGL's capito NRW subsidiary is a partner. Operates in overlapping language-accessibility niche with similar peer-led translation methodology.
• Sozialwerk St. Georg: Non-profit provider in North Rhine-Westphalia offering residential, ambulatory, and vocational services for people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. Operates in overlapping German region with comparable service mix and Eingliederungshilfe funding model.
• v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel: One of Germany's largest Protestant social welfare organizations providing disability services, residential care, and vocational programs across multiple regions. Co-owner of IGL and operates nearly identical service categories at much larger scale.
• Caritas Behindertenhilfe und Psychiatrie (CBP): Catholic counterpart to Diakonie providing disability and psychiatric services across Germany. Operates residential facilities, ambulatory services, and day programs serving people with cognitive disabilities, competing in the same Eingliederungshilfe funding system.
• Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe: Germany's largest NGO for people with intellectual disabilities, operating residential facilities, ambulatory services, and advocacy nationwide. Directly comparable to IGL's service portfolio and target population, but with substantially broader geographic reach.

Others

• Special Olympics Deutschland: German arm of Special Olympics providing sports and inclusion programming for people with intellectual disabilities. Adjacent rather than directly competitive; comparable in target population and inclusion mission, but focused on sport rather than housing/care.
• Aktion Mensch: Largest German private funder of disability inclusion projects, having granted IGL €32,000 for accessibility vehicles and supporting PIKSL via mobility program. Not a direct service provider but a key ecosystem participant and grant source for IGL's innovation agenda.
• Bundesverband evangelische Behindertenhilfe (BeB): Industry association representing Protestant disability service providers in Germany. IGL is an active member and partnered with BeB on the Index für Partizipation framework; comparable in advocacy and standards-setting role rather than direct service delivery.

Broad incumbents

• Diakonie Deutschland: Umbrella organization for Protestant social welfare in Germany, coordinating 31,000+ services including disability care. Indirect stakeholder via Diakonie Düsseldorf co-ownership, and comparable operating model across member organizations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries3 records

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