Goonj

Works in multiple areas of rural development with a focus on transforming discarded urban material into useful resources for villages

  • Gold Certified 2023
  • FCRA
  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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Financials

  • 2019

    Total Income
    Rs.584,518,437
    Total Expenses
    Rs.340,919,956
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.272,715,593
    Program Expenses
    Rs.68,204,363
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  • 2020

    Total Income
    Rs.355,060,502
    Total Expenses
    Rs.714,856,984
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.92,931,408
    Program Expenses
    Rs.621,925,576
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  • 2021

    Total Income
    Rs.1,206,392,095
    Total Expenses
    Rs.714,856,983
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.71,485,698
    Program Expenses
    Rs.643,371,285
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  • 2022

    Total Income
    Rs.1,747,871,014
    Total Expenses
    Rs.1,148,035,347
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.114,803,534
    Program Expenses
    Rs.1,033,231,813
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  • 2023

    Total Income
    Rs.411,899,204
    Total Expenses
    Rs.866,514,515
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.86,651,451
    Program Expenses
    Rs.779,863,064
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  • 2024

    Total Income
    Rs.548,507,358
    Total Expenses
    Rs.687,681,414
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.103,152,212
    Program Expenses
    Rs.584,529,202
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Geographies Served

Programs

  • Green by Goonj

    Green by Goonj is an initiative by the organization to present handicrafts created by women in far-flung remote areas. It consists of a special edition of modern products, showcasing their aesthetics, craftsmanship and design sense created from stuff recycled out of objects and materials considered waste in the urban setting. It maintains a separate website where these products are displayed and are available for purchase through online ordering.

  • Project Rahat

    District

    Chamoli

    States

    Andhra Pradesh

    Karnataka

    Tamil Nadu

    West Bengal

    Chhattisgarh

    Assam

    Bihar

    Gujarat

    Kerala

    Maharashtra

    Manipur

    Sikkim

    Uttar Pradesh

    Uttarakhand

    Jammu and Kashmir

    Odisha

    Telangana

    Project Rahat aims to respond to natural calamities in a fast, efficient manner and mobilize urban and rural citizens to help out with relief materials as required by the disaster struck area. It conducts regular sessions on the merit of giving and donation and draws attention to preventable disasters like death from cold in winter. Rehabilitation tool kits are provided to people affected by disasters to encourage them to stay in their places and not migrate to cities in search of employment.

  • Dignity for Work

    District

    Raigarh

    Kolar

    Rajgarh

    Udaipur

    Chamoli

    Hazaribag

    States

    Karnataka

    Chhattisgarh

    Jharkhand

    Maharashtra

    Rajasthan

    Uttarakhand

    Odisha

    Goonj deals with over 3000 tons of material per year and initiates over 2500 development activities annually under its flagship initiative Dignity for Work earlier known as 'Cloth for work' (CFW), from repairing roads, recharging water ponds, and building bamboo bridges to digging wells besides interventions in sanitation, agriculture and tree plantation.

  • Disaster Management & Relief

    It has developed income generation initiatives like Sujni, school bag making, and Vapsi to bring back the disaster-hit local economy to normalcy. Also, it developed a method to transform disaster wastage into a resource for development work. This waste management method was used in the Gujarat earthquake and the floods in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu and Kashmir. Goonj also collected material to help those affected by the floods in North East India.

  • Cloth for Work

    Cloth for Work (CFW): CFW repositions cities urban discard as development resource for neglected rural India issues. Annually 3000+ tons of material is channelized to remote villages, motivating village communities to work on self identified issues in their areas. Over 3000 development activities every year on issues like water, infrastructure, education, agriculture etc are undertaken in 1700+ villages across India. It fulfills basic material needs of people, dignifies giving as lakhs of people don’t get material as charity but earn it as reward for their efforts. It also fills resource gaps in development work & provides a longer life to massive quantity of discard that would have been an environmental hazard.

  • School to School

    District

    Tiruvallur

    Golaghat

    Madhepura

    Sangli

    Kolhapur

    Bankura

    Mumbai

    Vaishali

    States

    Tamil Nadu

    West Bengal

    Chhattisgarh

    Assam

    Bihar

    Maharashtra

    S2S is an attempt to fill the gap of resources in rural schools by providing them basic school material like stationery, sports material etc. On the other hand Goonj motivates urban school children to give their unutilised school material for their rural counterparts. BUT instead of giving this material as charity, it is given as a reward for efforts made by children around issues of learning and behaviour like hygiene, attendance, discipline etc. Goonj reaches recycled school kit (comprising bag, belt, water bottle, pouches, cap, scarf, ball, mat, etc.) to students as a reward for behavioural changes. It supports libraries, computer centres, sports facilities and other education institutions in rural India. In 2016-17 alone, Goonj has dispatched 28,563 school kits in 15 states of India.

Impact Metrics

  • Sanitation Projects Done

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2016-17 700
    • 2017-18 1190
    • 2018-19 2162
    • 2019-20 600
    • 2020-21 3700
  • Sanitation Pads Distributed to Women

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2016-17 453000
    • 2017-18 1041000
    • 2018-19 1240700
    • 2019-20 100000
    • 2020-21 1600000
  • No. of Households Reached

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 245788
    • 2020-21 461449
    • 2021-22 636687
  • No. of Community Led Development Projects

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 7000
    • 2020-21 12700
    • 2021-22 12700
  • Quantity of Material Channelised (Mn Kg)

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 5
    • 2020-21 9
    • 2021-22 4
  • No. of School Kits Channelised

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 68654
    • 2020-21 14566
    • 2021-22 55000
  • No. of Districts Reached in the Country

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 134
    • 2020-21 328
    • 2021-22 417

Leadership Team

  • Meenakshi Gupta

    Co-Founder

  • Anshu Gupta

    Founder Director

  • Imran Khan

    Team Member

  • Anita Patil

    Lead-Partnerships

  • Abhinav Dutta

    Lead - Strategic Partnerships - CSR & Philanthropies

Demographics & Structure

  • Organisation Strength

    6

  • Diversity Metrics

    50% women

  • Organization Structure Organization Structure

    Yes

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAATG5219M

  • Registration Number

    S-34386

  • CSR Form 1

    CSR00000291.

  • 80G

    AAATG5219MF20214

  • 12A

    AAATG5219ME20214

  • FCRA

    231660618

About

  • Headquarters

    New Delhi, Delhi

  • Since

    2003

Impact

Goonj has built a network of communities from urban to village India, channelizing material as a tool to address basic but neglected issues and galvanizing mass civic participation.

Vision and Mission

Goonj aims to build an equitable relationship of strength, sustenance, and dignity between the cities and villages, using under-utilized material as a tool to trigger development with dignity. We envision growing as an idea across regions, economies, and countries using urban surplus material as a tool to address basic but neglected issues of the financially and materially poor, involving them in designing and implementing their own solutions, with their own efforts, knowledge, and dignity, and material as a reward for their participation.

Political & Religious Declarations

  • Political Affiliation

  • Religious Affiliation

Location

  • Headquarters

    J-93, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi

    Directions
  • Offices in Cities

    Delhi, Mumbai, Rishikesh, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Patna City, Hyderabad

Other Details

  • Type

    Non-profit

  • Sub Type

    Society

Technology Adoption

  • SOC 2 Compliant

    No

  • Financial Management

  • Beneficiary Management