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*GENERAL INFORMATION:
NAME OF THE ORGANISATION: GOOONJ
OFFICE ADDRESS: 100 TO 81,POCKET I,SARITA VIHAR,DELHI 110076
TELEPHONE NUMBER: +01141401216
EMAIL ID: mail@goonj.org
HOURS OF OPERATION: Monday to Saturday (9:30 – 5:30)
TARGET BENEFICIARIES:
 Under privileged women
 Under privileged children
 Disaster affected people
NAME OF THE DIRECTOR: Anshu Gupta
LEVEL OF ACTION: Grass root and National
DATE OF ESABLISHMENT: 24th Feb’ 1999
BRANCHES IN DIFFERENT STATE:
 Delhi
 Pune
 Chandigarh
 Jalandhar
 Mumbai
 Kolkata
 Bangalore
 Hyderabad
 Chennai
 Patna and Bihar
oBACKGROUND INFORMATION:
ORGANISATION SETUP: Non Profit
HISTORY:
• GOONJ, formed in 1999 by Anshu Gupta.
• Initiated over 1500 developmental activities under ‘ Cloth for work’.
• GOONJ started with 67 clothes and now deals with over 3000 tones of material.
• In 2007 it started the 'Not Just a Piece of Cloth' (NJPC) campaign, after the 2004
tsunami.
• In 2009, it joined the Joy of Giving Week, later renamed Daan Utsav.
• In 2011 supported thousands of children under its initiative ‘School to School’ with basic
school material.
• In 2017 it started ‘RAAHAT’ to work on relief & rehabilitation in a series of disasters.
 MISSION:
 Repositioning cloth and other underutilized material, beyond
charity.
 Adding dignity and turning clothing into a big resource for development.
 Spreading the idea beyond geographical boundaries so that people
all around the world thinks of clothing as a basic need and a
subject to work on.
 VISION:
 To make clothing a matter of concern.
 To bring clothing in the list of subjects for the development sector.
 Building a parallel economy which is not CASH based but TRASH
based.
AIM OR OBJECTIVE OF ORGANISATION:
 Spreading awareness about the concept of recycling.
 Providing a channel to deposit reusable material to
reach the most needy.
 Highlighting clothing as a basic need which deserves
place on national agenda.
NAME OF THE DIRECTOR: Anshu Gupta
ORGANISATIONAL SIZE:
No. of members: 6
No. of employees: 300
CORE VALUES:
 We don’t fix up targets, we value potential.
 Positive word of mouth is our biggest strength.
 We strongly believe in the wisdom of people we are working for.
 We don’t promote charity, we turn old charitable material into development resource.
 We don’t try to do everything on our own, instead we use the strength of collaboration with
various stake holders.
 We don’t spend money on our own infrastructure, furniture etc we use old material from table,
chairs and computers to office stationary.
 Use material as a tool to bring ignored issues to light like basic needs.
 To bring communities together, to make them aware of their own power, to increase people’s
participation, to change mindsets.
MAIN FOCUS AREA:
Menstrual Hygiene and Management
Disaster relief and Rehabilitation
Humanitarian aid
Community development
Rural development work
- Sanitation
- Water
- Agriculture
Livelihood and Income Generation
Education
ACTIVITIES UNDER TAKEN:
Donated urban school material which acted as motivation to get rural children to school.
Turned massive disaster wastage into resource for development of Gujrat earthquake to
tsunami, Bihar floods, Andra Pradesh floods, UK floods, J & K floods and Chennai floods.
Donated clothes were disinfected, washed, and recycled into over 3.0 million sanitary
pads which were then placed in cotton bags to make sanitary napkins called "My Pads".
Shiped over 70,000 kgs of material a month and had also converted 1,000 tones of used
clothes, household goods and other urban discards into usable resources for the poor.
Annually initiates over 1500 development activities under its flagship initiative Cloth for
work'(CFW): from repairing roads, recharging water ponds, building bamboo bridges to
digging wells.
 MAJOR PARTNERS:
 CBOS
 Panchayat
 Indian Army
 Social Activities
 Ashoka Fellows
 Grassroot Organisation
 Seva Bharti
 Chinar International and Samarapan Foundation
 BRANCH OFFICES:
DELHI- J-93,Sarita Vihar, New Delhi110076
PITAMPURA: The Modern School New Delhi - 110034
100 TO 81,POCKET I,SARITA VIHAR,DELHI 110076
*LEADERSHIP, ORGANISATION AND HUMAN RESOURCE:
MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE:
DIRECTOR/FOUNDER
CO-FOUNDER
MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER
TRUSTEES/EXECUTIVE COMMETY/ADVISORY BODY:
 Mr. Anshu Gupta, Founder Director.
 Ms. Meenakshi Gupta, Co-Founder.
 Mr. Ajay K. Sharma, Member.
 Keshav Chaturvedi, Member.
 Mridula Murgai, Member.
 Saloni Malhotra, Member.
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FUNDING AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM:
 In 2015, General Donation includes Deutsche Bank Award Money.
 ‘Store Rent Express’ under Direct Programme Activities.
 In 2012, 2013 and 2014, store rent constituted
8%,13% and 7% of total expenses respectively.
 Publicity and Transportation expenses taken
as Fund Raising Expenses.
Other expenses includes non recurring expenses.
Investments includes interest accrued on fixed deposits.
SOURCES OF FUNDING OF ORGANISATION:
 SELF GENERATED INCOME
- Sell old newspapers
- School bag making
- Opened tailoring centers
- One Rupee One Cloth
- Sale of products from recycled material
 INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS
 FUNDING FROM FUNDING AGENCIES
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• July’16: CNBC TV Young Turks change Award to Anshu Gupta.
• July’15: Ramon Magsaysay Award to Anshu Gupta.
• Nov’ 14: Goonj won the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award.
• July' 14: Goonj is in the ‘The Purpose Economy 100 Asia’ list.
• Feb’14: Goonj listed among The World's Top 10 Most
Innovative Companies in India, by Fast Company.
• July’ 12: GOONJ recognized as ‘Game Changing Innovation’
by NASA & US State Dept.
• June’ 12: GDN-Japanese Award for Most Innovative
Development Project.
• Nov’ 12: Anshu Gupta, Founder Goonj gets
‘Social Entrepreneur of the year award’ by
Schwab Foundation.
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