The Germerika Project is a private initiative. It’s success requires your help! Germerika needs people in the real world, who are willing to contribute something to the benefit of our common cultural interests and thereby also their American homeland.

This has two components, one for institutions and one for individuals:

- We need INSTITUTIONS AS REGIONAL PARTNERS, not single people, as Germerika and Hecker do of course also address children and teenagers. Therefore it would be irresponsible to name a single foreign person as such a contact. But it would be great, if institutions in every state could collect additional regional information and offer them combined to the Germerika Project and thereby German-Americans everywhere. We hope to find partner institutions in every state, which would cooperate with others in their region. Many people do great things for our culture and people, but equalizing information systematically, considering different aspects like tribal and regional connections and bringing all of this together at one digital meeting point can certainly create completely new chances! - For example some regional fests loose income, because of a Bavarian cultural predominance, which many people simply don’t like, as this is not their culture! - Sharing “strategies” can help German-Americans everywhere to enrich their regional communities with the help and experiences of others, who live far away, but who already managed to overcome equal obstacles. - Let’s use our diversity!

The Germerika Project can make it much easier to learn from each other and win the interest of Americans. Many things in America could become better, if there was a stronger German-American cultural life, notion of community, and engagement again! Like a flag in the military or a trademark in marketing, a symbolizing figure like Germerika has an enormous value for these goals.

Accordingly our mission is definitely not about building a “Germerika Institution”. It is about supporting existing institutions as well as bringing people and information together systematically, offering an environment that’s inviting for AMERICAN families - and of course to let Germerika and Hecker motivate our 50 million sisters and brothers all across the country! …

- Regional Partners do NOT have to support us financially.

- Regional Partners collect and provide information about German-American cultural life in their state, not only about their own activities. These fill up our state-sites.

- Regional Partners answer questions of people, who want to get active in their state.

- Regional Partners refer to Germerika and Hecker in public.

- Regional Partners stick to the general values of the Germerika Project in public (which you can find on each of our sites in the golden bar below).

- Regional Partners receive a special field on our according state site. The special attention they win, serves their own interests.

Please contact us, if you want to become a Regional Partner of the Germerika Project.

Apart from that germerika.net shows prepared fields for INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTERS on every site. This can include all kinds of support, including financial support. Clubs, economy, science and authorities can help. Please contact us. Thanks!

- Of course that’s not all! - There are also ways for every single one to take part individually.

Our chapters and initiatives introduce ways to get active by REALIZING OUR APPROACHES.

Another absolutely great support would be the simple EXPRESSION OF SUPPORT, if you are a famous athlete, cultural celebrity or politician. (If you know such people, please tell them about germerika.net) - It’s about the cultural heritage of the USA – a heritage that extremists had once (very “successfully”) tried to destroy. Please help Germerika to show how lovable it is! …

All you’d need to do is to write us the sentence “I support Germerika and Hecker!” as well as informing your management, club or bureau, so that we can check it. - Accordingly stupid would it be to fake such statements! … - Better stick to the law, folks! …

We would be proud to show your photo under this supporting statement in the special “Prominent Supporters” area of germerika.net!

If you are on the way to get there, give others the chance to support you, for your common background. Therefore, what ever you do, consider to do it SHOWING THAT YOU ARE A GERMAN-AMERICAN. Search the contact to regional German-American institutions and introduce Germerika’s and your own ideas. That’s all it takes to write new chapters of our common history. You’d be surprised how welcome you are there! …

There is also a SCIENTIFIC WAY how everyone can take part. You can collect information about the German-American history in your region. Students could even get good marks for it in school, if they propose such reports to their teachers! Make reports about our history and culture to carry Germerika’s American Dream into the educational system.

This educational system (like the internet) is also influenced by bullying. Engaging for the feeling of being German-American, can bring very different young people together, who might never really get to know each other in school. This can overcome prejudices and indifference.

Apart from that, it’s a shame that the language of the biggest ethnic group in the US is being taught only rarely in schools anymore, despite it has once been absolutely usual to teach all subjects in German and despite it’s normal in Europe to learn several languages. - Consider whether you could try anything to change this in your own town. - Every tiny action is needed to make something big get in movement. Germerika needs you!

And than there are THE MANY LITTLE THINGS:

Taking part by simply calling oneself a German-American! - The times of 1917, when German-Americans taught their children in tears to hide or deny their family’s identity, are over!!! - What’s not over yet, is the fact that the “bad guys” have so far won in this affair …

Taking part by learning German oneself. There are websites, teaching languages. One can listen to language-CDs or just read articles of germerika.net in English and afterwards try it in German.

Taking part by asking questions to one’s parents and grandparents and experiencing how much they welcome one’s interest in the own family!

Taking part by including German contents into one’s cheerleading, poetry, romance(!), paintings, fashion-style! - Becoming a trendsetter, by moving ahead! - That’s the spirit that built America!

Taking part by visiting German-American blogs.

Taking part by talking to people one meets, having German names!

Taking part by setting America’s flag with black-red-golden streamers, like Germerika does.

Taking part by singing the “Starspangled Banner” in German, like German-Americans did it so long in the past.

Taking part by showing the Germerika Banner at sports events or German-American fests.

Taking part by designing things that give German customs an appearance that fits to one’s own American region. Considering one’s own tribal backgrounds.

Taking part by painting German things with one’s children.

And last but not least, taking part, by just making our information in any way a part of one’s family-life. - Becoming aware of being a German-American. Reading our history summaries and trying to win a feeling for one’s own history inside it. Playing what one reads. Loving what one is. - Being self-assured!

Thanks - no: Danke! - for taking part - however you like to …