What Mittendrin does

Mittendrin (legally: Mehrgenerationenhaus "Mittendrin" Träger Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen) is a nonprofit multi-generational community center operating from a single location at Wilhelmstraße 10, Altenkirchen (Westerwald), in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. The center serves an open community of residents across all age groups — general community members, seniors, families with children, and people with disabilities — providing a physical gathering space, structured events, social counseling, self-help groups, memory training, digital-literacy advice, family cooking courses, and volunteer engagement. Its core service is the 'Offener Treff' (open meeting space) with weekday operating hours, supplemented by a published event program (Programm 2/2026) distributed digitally and in printed form. The technology layer is minimal: a standard web CMS (verwaltungsportal.de) hosts the public site, with email newsletters and Instagram as the main digital channels; no proprietary software, app, or API exists. The organization is positioned as a hub within the Rhineland-Palatinate 'Häuser der Familie' state network and operates under the sponsorship of Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen, a Protestant diaconal social-services organization.

The business model is grant- and donation-funded rather than commercial. The 'Briefe gegen Einsamkeit' (Letters Against Loneliness) campaign explicitly states participation is free and materials are provided. The go-to-market is community-led: word-of-mouth, local outreach, events, and programs delivered in-person at the community center, with marketing through website, newsletter, printed booklets, and Instagram. Revenue is not publicly disclosed but flows primarily from government subsidies and church/diaconal organization funding via the parent sponsor. The center employs 18 staff and reports 30,488 total website visitors, a scale consistent with a small, locally embedded nonprofit serving a rural district. Customer segments are diversified across four personas (general community, seniors, families, people with disabilities), reducing participant-side concentration, but the funding base is concentrated on public-sector and diaconal sources, which creates a structural dependency rather than commercial churn risk.

Name

Mittendrin

Legal name

Mehrgenerationenhaus "Mittendrin" Träger Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen

Website

https://mgh-ak.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mittendrin is a nonprofit multi-generational community center in Altenkirchen, Germany, operated by Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen. It provides free or low-cost social, educational, and recreational programs for local residents of all ages, funded primarily through government subsidies and diaconal support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Social Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Culturally & Linguistically Specific Adult Day Programs (HSABANAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Senior Social Clubs & Community-Based Day Programs (Non-Clinical) (HSABANAK)

Keywords

• Community center services
• Multi-generational programs
• Social counseling services
• Self-help group facilitation
• Senior engagement programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Altenkirchen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Funding and Subsidies: Primarily funded through government subsidies and church/diaconal organization funding. The organization is operated by Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen, indicating church-based social services funding.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Mehrgenerationenhaus "Mittendrin" is a multi-generational community center offering an open meeting space, scheduled event programs (Kaffee Treff, Bildungscafé, Spiel mit, Mittagstisch Gemeinsam), self-help group hosting, general social counseling, digital consultation hours, memory training, volunteer programs, and an anti-loneliness letter campaign (Briefe gegen Einsamkeit). All services are delivered in-person at the Altenkirchen location for community members of all ages.

Product overview

Mehrgenerationenhaus Mittendrin is a multi-generational community center operated by the Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen, located in Altenkirchen, Germany. It offers a unified platform of community services including an open meeting space (Offener Treff) with regular operating hours, a diverse event program featuring activities like Kaffee Treff, Bildungscafé, Spiel mit, and Mittagstisch Gemeinsam, as well as various self-help groups (Freundeskreis, Löwenherzen, and others). The center provides social counseling services, a digital consultation hour (Digitalsprechstunde), volunteer programs, and special initiatives like the anti-loneliness letter campaign (Briefe gegen Einsamkeit). The center communicates with the community through newsletters and printed program brochures, maintaining operating hours Monday through Friday.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mehrgenerationenhaus Mittendrin (Multi-Generational Community Center)

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Seniorenhilfe Altenkirchen e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner for the 'Briefe gegen Einsamkeit' (Letters Against Loneliness) program. Seniorenhilfe Altenkirchen e.V. collaborates with MGH Mittendrin to combat loneliness among seniors through handwritten letters and personal messages.
• GemeindeschwesterPluscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner for 'Briefe gegen Einsamkeit' and memory training programs. Provides community health nursing services in conjunction with MGH programs. Lena Mertgen serves as GemeindeschwesterPlus contact.
• Haus der Familie (House of Family)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the 'Häuser der Familie' (Houses of Family) network in Rhineland-Palatinate, part of the state family support program. Listed as partner organization on the MGH website.
• Diakonisches Werk AltenkirchencoreOthersThe operating organization (Träger) of Mehrgenerationenhaus Mittendrin. Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen is the diaconal organization that provides institutional support and oversight for the community center.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Diakonie Deutschland: National umbrella organization for Protestant diaconal social services. MGH Mittendrin's parent organization (Diakonisches Werk Altenkirchen) is a member. Operates thousands of social service facilities across Germany covering similar populations (seniors, families, people with disabilities) through a wider portfolio.
• Malteser Deutschland: Catholic humanitarian aid organization operating community services for seniors, families, and vulnerable populations in Germany. Comparable in mission and community-based social service delivery, though with broader emergency response and healthcare operations.
• Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK): German Red Cross national organization providing a broad portfolio of social services including community programs, senior services, and family support. Comparable in target populations and community-based delivery model, though operating at significantly larger scale and scope.

Direct peers

• Paritätischer Gesamtverband: Umbrella association for independent social service organizations in Germany. Coordinates a network of community-based providers offering services to seniors, families, and people with disabilities. Provides institutional context comparable to the role of Diakonie for MGH Mittendrin.
• Volkssolidarität Bundesverband: German non-partisan welfare association operating community meeting places, senior social clubs, and intergenerational programs. Offers a closely analogous model to MGH Mittendrin's senior social engagement and community gathering functions.
• Caritas Deutschland: Catholic charitable social services organization operating community centers, senior services, family support, and self-help groups across Germany. Closely comparable to the diaconal MGH Mittendrin model in serving similar populations through similar community-based programming.
• AWO Bundesverband: Major German welfare organization (Arbeiterwohlfahrt) operating community-based social services for seniors, families, and vulnerable populations nationwide. Directly comparable to MGH Mittendrin in mission, target populations, and community center service model, though at much larger scale.
• Mehrgenerationenhaus (national network): National network of Mehrgenerationenhäuser under the German federal Mehrgenerationenhaus programme. MGH Mittendrin is a member site of this network, offering a directly comparable intergenerational community center model with similar programming, funding sources, and operating structure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/mgh_hdf_mittendrin_ak
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mittendrin

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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