The Gupta Family Foundation (GFF) is a private, nonprofit foundation focused on enabling physically, economically, and socially disadvantaged peoples to achieve self-sufficiency. With a primary focus in developing countries, NGOs that provide assistance to people challenged by poverty, disability, or discrimination can apply to meet the qualifications for a grant. We are proud to support many NGOs that employ proven self-enablement techniques such as art in childhood education, early intervention in hard-of-hearing infants, micro-lending social enterprises, and more! GFF also supports relief efforts that serve people affected by emergencies and natural disasters.
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Every year, we identify new-to-us organizations that match our values and mission statement, and qualify them amongst four key requirements to join our community of grantees:
1) At least 90% of the organization's budget must directly reach their intended beneficiaries
2) The founder of the organization must still run the organization
3) The end goal for beneficiaries must be self-sufficiency
4) The NGO cannot be proselytizing any religion
Mike Hands (Founder; Left) explains to GFF Administrators (Right) the massive impact of alley cropping on farming, family life, the economy, rainforest conservation, and even climate change!
While there are countless organizations doing amazing work beyond this scope, this is where we feel we can make the largest impact within our means. GFF Administrators conduct site visits to grantee organizations to experience and evaluate their activities periodically, and vote annually on new grantee organizations as well as existing grants. Our mission is to create sustainability for the beneficiaries, and in a volatile world of non-profit funding we pride ourselves on making multi-year commitments. Another feather in our cap; several organizations of our grantee community have even graduated out of our program by growing beyond our wildest dreams!
As we evolve, we found that organizations across the globe are actually working on some of the same problems. To capitalize on this wealth of knowledge, we recently hosted a Cross-Learning Symposium where we sponsored several of our grantee organizations to meet and share their respective visions, ideas and solutions they have for their organizations. Each NGO's founder gave a short presentation on their mission, effectiveness of different programs, and issues they faced followed by a Q&A session that almost always turned into a healthy discussion!
We are proud to say many of these organizations took the opportunity to use additional grant funding set aside to enable them to take advantage of each other's learnings (most prominently the compost toilets, which help solve many hygiene and disease related issues in rural parts of the world).
