Temmel Fundraising

What Temmel Fundraising does

Temmel Fundraising GmbH is a German door-to-door (D2D) fundraising agency founded in 2010 and headquartered in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. The company recruits and deploys student fundraisers aged 18-27 in teams of 5-12 across cities in Germany (Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Cologne, Bonn, Freiburg, Augsburg, Würzburg) and Austria (Vienna and nationwide), executing more than 500,000 direct household conversations per year. It serves as an outsourced donor acquisition partner for large humanitarian nonprofits, with named anchor clients Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V. (partner since 2016, 1,030,000+ members and supporters across 700+ locations) and Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) Österreichs (240,000+ members and 8,200+ staff). The company is family-owned and led by Managing Director Alexander Temmel, with a small core staff of 11-50 supplemented by seasonal independent-contractor fundraisers.

The core service offering centers on recruiting recurring donors (Förderer/Fördermitglieder) for charity partners through face-to-face household visits. Fundraisers use a proprietary tablet-based system that captures supporter data digitally and transmits it in real time to partner organizations via email and SMS, with the fundraiser's service number, photo, and name displayed on screen for transparency and trust. Go-to-market is community-led: Temmel recruits student workers through university campus outreach, an active careers website (derferienjob.de), organic Facebook and Instagram presence, Google AdWords remarketing, Facebook conversion tracking, and word-of-mouth referrals from alumni fundraisers. Fundraisers operate as independent contractors (Gewerbeschein), earning a €50/day base provision (conditional on 3+ supporter sign-ups per day) plus performance bonuses, averaging approximately €2,500 over a 5-week deployment. Temmel earns revenue through transaction-based fundraising fees charged to nonprofit partners for donor acquisition.

The business model is seasonal and tied to university semester breaks, with annual programming including the Ferienjob-Challenge recruitment cycle, recurring alumni events (Lions of Snow winter seminar, Grimming Gathering summer seminar, surf camp), and an internal Team Coach advancement track that promotes experienced fundraisers into leadership roles. The company maintains formal recruiting, quality control, and creative functions but operates with a lean permanent headcount, leveraging seasonal labor for operational scale.

Name

Temmel Fundraising

Legal name

Temmel Fundraising GmbH

Website

https://derferienjob.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Temmel Fundraising GmbH is a German door-to-door fundraising agency that recruits student teams to acquire recurring donors for nonprofit partners such as Malteser Hilfsdienst and ASB Österreichs across Germany and Austria.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Fundraising Services

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Fundraising & Donor Acquisition Calling (Nonprofit) (BPAAADAJ)

Keywords

• Door-to-door fundraising
• Nonprofit donor recruitment
• Face-to-face fundraising
• Charity fundraising services
• Recurring donor acquisition

Headquarters

HQ city

Aalen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Performance-Based Fundraiser Compensation: Fundraisers earn a base provision of €50 per working day (conditional on recruiting at least 3 supporters/day), supplemented by commission bonuses tied to the number of new recurring donors recruited. Average earnings are approximately €2,500 over 5 weeks, with top performers earning significantly more through performance bonuses. The company earns its revenue from the fundraising fees charged to partner nonprofit organizations for donor acquisition and retention services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Temmel Fundraising recruits, trains, and deploys student teams (5-12 members) to conduct door-to-door, face-to-face fundraising campaigns that recruit recurring donors (Förderer) for nonprofit aid organizations such as Malteser Hilfsdienst and ASB Österreichs. Fundraisers use a proprietary tablet-based system to digitally sign up donors and transmit high-quality data to the partner organization at the point of contact.

Product overview

Temmel Fundraising operates as a fundraising service provider, not a traditional SaaS product company. Their core offering is the 'Der Ferienjob' door-to-door fundraising program, where they recruit and deploy student fundraisers to collect regular donors for partner nonprofit organizations (NPOs) including Malteser Hilfsdienst and Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Österreichs. The Tablet-Fundraising-System is their proprietary technology for capturing donor data at the door. They offer advancement opportunities through the Team Coach Program and ongoing development via Job Seminars & Events. The company functions as a student employment agency specialized in social fundraising rather than a technology platform company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Der Ferienjob — Door-to-Door Fundraising Service for Nonprofits

Quantifiable outcome

• 500,000+ direct conversations per year
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Malteser Hilfsdienst is one of Germany's largest social welfare organizations, founded in 1953 by the Order of Malta and Caritasverband. It has over 1,030,000 members and supporters, and approximately 70,000 volunteers and full-time staff at over 700 locations. Temmel Fundraising has been conducting donor recruitment for Malteser since 2016, helping fund humanitarian projects including rescue and medical transport, first aid training, nursing and care, disaster relief, and youth services.
• Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) ÖsterreichscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerASB Österreichs is a nonprofit humanitarian organization with more than 240,000 members and supporters across Austria and over 8,200 paid and volunteer staff. It provides services for elderly, sick, injured, and people in distress regardless of ethnicity, religion, or worldview. Temmel Fundraising conducts door-to-door donor recruitment for ASB, funding projects such as the 'Samariter-Wunschfahrt' (fulfilling last wishes for terminally ill individuals), rescue transport, first aid, nursing, housing services, humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and youth work.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Fundraisingbox: German-based donation management SaaS used by nonprofits for online fundraising, donor CRM, and recurring giving workflows. Adjacent/competing fundraising infrastructure provider for the same charity customer segment Temmel serves via offline D2D.
• RaiseNow: Swiss-German fundraising software provider offering digital donation tools to European nonprofits. Adjacent to Temmel by serving the same charity customers with complementary (digital rather than in-person) donor-acquisition infrastructure.
• Spendino: German donation platform enabling online giving for nonprofits. Not a direct competitor but addresses the same end-customer need (recurring donor acquisition) via a digital channel rather than D2D, making it an adjacent/competing fundraising alternative for Temmel's charity partners.

Direct peers

• Public Outreach: Pan-European face-to-face fundraising agency with operations across multiple countries, operating dialoger teams that recruit recurring donors for major NGOs. Comparable delivery model, business model, and customer base to Temmel at greater geographic scale.
• Knorr & Partner Fundraising: Established German fundraising agency providing D2D and street fundraising services for nonprofits, with a comparable dialoger-based operating model. Direct competitor in the German D2D fundraiser recruitment market.
• Dialogue Direct: German D2D and street-dialog fundraising agency providing door-to-door dialoger teams to humanitarian and social NGOs for recurring-donor recruitment. Highly comparable operating model and customer overlap with Temmel Fundraising.
• Pareto Fundraising: UK-headquartered face-to-face fundraising agency operating door-to-door and street teams for major charities across Europe and North America. Same business model, delivery mechanism, and recurring-donor acquisition focus as Temmel.
• blackelight Fundraising: Germany-based fundraising consultancy and dialoger-team operator serving nonprofit clients with face-to-face donor acquisition. Overlaps with Temmel in delivery mechanism (D2D fundraiser teams) and target customer (charities seeking recurring donors).
• Direct Dialogue (DDC): One of Germany's largest face-to-face fundraising agencies, operating D2D and private-site fundraiser teams for major German and international nonprofits. Direct competitor to Temmel in the same donor-acquisition channel, serving overlapping charity partners across Germany.
• Boscor Fundraising: German door-to-door fundraising agency running dialoger teams to recruit recurring donors (Förderer) for humanitarian and social charity clients. Closely comparable model, geographic overlap, and customer base to Temmel.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/TemmelFundraising
• Instagraminstagram.com/temmelfundraising
• Xx.com/TinaTemmel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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