social entrepreneurs

Introduction Anshu Gupta from New Delhi popuraly known as “Clothing Man”

Studied Journalism Advertising and Public relation from Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

In 1998 he left Escorts as manager, to work full time on his idea

He is inspired by his mother, who is a role model for him.

Year founded: 1999

Focus: Rural Development

Geographic Area of Impact: India

Model: Leveraged Not-for-Profit

Number of Direct Beneficiaries: 1000 tons of materials

distributed to over 1500 villages (2012)

Annual Budget (2012): US$ 855,000 (2012)

Percent Earned Revenue: 15%

Developing drainage system

Repairing roads

Cleaning up a village

Cloth for Work: Not only about clothes but about

dignity and resources..

A bridge in Rs.2250/- (less than $50)

Not just old toys..It’s not about 100 grams of cooked/

uncooked food. It’s about a joyful place..

And the impact : as an aanganwari

worker says- “Pehley bachcha aata nahi

tha, ab jata nahi ..” ( earlier the child

wouldn’t come now the child doesn’t

want to go back..)

Impact At a scale of 3 million pieces of clothes a year, it

costs only 97 paisa per piece for collecting, cleaning, sorting and transporting.

Deals with over 50 tonnes of material dispatch every month.

First and largest responder during floods in Bihar, Odisha cyclone and in Uttarakhand.

Now Goonj is operating in 21 states of India with over 40,000 kgs of material being processed every month.

Attributes

Sees opportunity to improve the lives of other.

Accepts responsibility.

Risk taker.

Enriches others.

Boss of own destiny.

Make money for sustainability of mission.

Always work for the society.

Awards and Recognition Social entrepreneur of the year 2012

Ashoka Fellowship award 2004

Lien i3 Challenge Award by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation, Singapore.

World Bank Development Marketplace award in 2007.

Anshu Gupta listed in international ‘Forbes’ magazine as one of India’s most powerful rural entrepreneurs.

GOONJ chosen as ‘Game Changing Innovation’ by NASA and US State Dept.

Presented By,

Ankita Masih

Ankita Srivastava

Ganesh Maharana

Brijendra Pandey

Shoiab

Ankur Pandey