The members assembly, comprised of 49 persons, is the Foundation's foremost decision-making organ; its responsibilities include electing the Executive Board.

Expert advisory boards (7 - 10 people each) are staffed by independent experts who consult with the Foundation and formulate suggestions regarding conceptual issues raised in the educational programmes.

The Foundation's by-laws provide for a quota of women and immigrants on all the Foundation’s bodies and among its full-time staff.

Two additional bodies of the Foundation's educational work are the "Green Academy" and the "Feminist Institute" (www.glow.de).

The Foundation currently maintains foreign and project offices in the Arab Middle East, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, India, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, the USA and an EU office in Brussels. A new foreign office in China is currently being planned.

For 2001, the Foundation had almost 35 million € public funds at its disposal.