Gabriel Project Mumbai

What Gabriel Project Mumbai does

Gabriel Project Mumbai (GPM) is a US-incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN# 45-4541556), founded in 2012 and headquartered for administrative purposes in Bergenfield, New Jersey, with all program operations delivered in India. Its mission is community-led development for vulnerable populations in Mumbai's informal urban settlements (Kalwa slum) and the rural tribal villages of Maharashtra. The organization delivers services through four program pillars — education, health, nutrition, and livelihoods — operationalized via a portfolio of interconnected programs: Love2Learn (8 village schools serving 800 students), Eat2Learn (1,000+ daily hot meals with reported 50% attendance lift), the Joshua Greenberger Learning Center (Kalwa), a daily Mobile Health Unit (check-ups, vaccinations, hygiene education for 800 children), four women-focused micro-enterprises under the livelihoods pillar, PenPals with a Purpose (cross-cultural correspondence linking US/UK/CA/AU students with Kalwa students), and Operation CoVER (COVID-19 emergency response reaching 6,000+ families with food, masks, and health information).

The organization's underlying operating model is direct field service delivery by local staff augmented by international volunteers, with no proprietary technology platform — the website is built on Wix and there are no APIs, integrations, or AI components. Its "Triad of Children's Development" framework bundles education, health, and nutrition simultaneously within the same beneficiary population. GPM funds operations exclusively through individual donations accepted via website, mail, and phone, with US tax deductibility enabling international (primarily US-based) donor reach. There are no disclosed fees, pricing models, or institutional grant anchors; the single named 2024 institutional touchpoint (Bristol-Myers Squibb) is recorded at $0.

Commercially, GPM is mission-restricted rather than revenue-driven: there is no commercial product, no pricing model, and the value proposition is measured in social outcomes (attendance rates, meals served, children reached) rather than revenue per customer. Strategic partnerships — with JDC Entwine (volunteer pipeline), IsraAID (emergency response), Sundara (hygiene education), and government educational institutions (school integration) — extend capacity without changing the donation-funded economic model. Headcount is 51-100, and the organization holds a Charity Navigator 4-Star rating and the 2016 CSR Journal Child Welfare and Women Empowerment Award as primary credibility assets.

Name

Gabriel Project Mumbai

Legal name

Gabriel Project Mumbai a NJ Non-Profit

Website

https://gabrielprojectmumbai.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Gabriel Project Mumbai is a US-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, founded in 2012, that delivers community-led education, health, nutrition, and livelihoods programs to vulnerable children and families in Mumbai's slums and Maharashtra's rural tribal villages, funded through individual donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Development Services

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

International Development & Donor-Funded Education Programs (EDADALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Development & Social Impact Programs (EDAIAGAA), International & Global Public Health Aid Administration (Government Donors) (HLAJALAO), Program & Project Implementation (TA Delivery) (BPADAEAA)

Keywords

• Community development programs
• Education access services
• Nutrition meal programs
• Mobile health services
• Women livelihood support

Headquarters

HQ city

Mumbai

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Receives donations from individual supporters through website, mail, and phone. US-based IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization (EIN# 45-4541556) allowing tax-deductible donations.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Gabriel Project Mumbai is a community-led development nonprofit that delivers integrated programs across four pillars — education, health, nutrition, and livelihoods — for vulnerable children and families living in Mumbai's urban slums and rural tribal villages of Maharashtra, India. Programs are delivered directly through schools, mobile health units, learning centers, and women's micro-enterprise collectives, funded primarily by individual donations to the US-based 501(c)(3) entity.

Product overview

Gabriel Project Mumbai operates as a community-led development organization offering a portfolio of interconnected programs organized around four pillars: education, health, nutrition, and livelihoods. The core programs include Love2Learn (holistic school program), Eat2Learn (nutrition/meals), PenPals with a Purpose (cross-cultural education), Mobile Health Unit, and the Joshua Greenberger Learning Center. These programs work together through the 'Triad of Children's Development' approach, addressing education, health, and nutrition simultaneously to break the cycle of poverty for children in underserved urban slums and rural tribal villages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Love2Learn: School program fully incorporating the GPM concept of the Triad of Children's Development for 8 village schools serving 800 students, including holistic approach to education, nutrition, and health.
• Eat2Learn
• PenPals with a Purpose
• Operation CoVER
• Joshua Greenberger Learning Center

Products and services

• Love2Learn A holistic school program serving 8 village schools with 800 students, incorporating education, health, and nutrition support through the Triad of Children's Development approach. Created by GPM educational staff Kenneth Desouza and Thaiza Diaz.
• Eat2Learn Nutrition program providing over 1,000 hot, nutritious meals daily to children attending school, addressing short-term hunger relief and long-term malnutrition abatement to promote education.
• PenPals with a Purpose Correspondence program connecting 5th and 6th graders from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia with students at Kalwa Slum School through structured email correspondence, building cross-cultural friendships and improving English literacy.
• Mobile Health Unit A mobile medical unit with personnel visiting villages daily to provide check-ups, vaccinations, preventive care, hygiene education, and follow-up care for children.
• Joshua Greenberger Learning Center A learning center in the Kalwa slum providing education services to children, integrated with the Eat2Learn nutrition program.
• Operation CoVER (Corona Virus Emergency Response) COVID-19 emergency response campaign providing food emergency distribution, health/safety information, handwashing stations, facemasks, and medical support to families in slums and villages.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50% increase in attendance rates due to nutrition program
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• IsraAIDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on COVID-19 emergency response video documentation and joint operations in the slums during the pandemic. IsraAID partnership supported Corona Virus Emergency Response (CoVER) initiative.
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership through JDC Entwine program sending Jewish young adults (ages 18-30) on comprehensive multi-week volunteer and learning programs in Mumbai through JDC Global Jewish Service Corps (JSC) program.
• Government Educational InstitutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with government educational institutions for Love2Learn school program development, including collaboration with government educational staff on curriculum and implementation.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Pratham: One of India's largest NGOs focused on education quality and literacy for underserved children. Directly comparable to GPM's Love2Learn program and similar target population in urban slums and rural India.
• Akshaya Patra Foundation: Runs India's largest mid-day meal program serving millions of children daily. Highly comparable to GPM's Eat2Learn nutrition program and shares the school-based feeding model with attendance-uplift outcomes.
• Magic Bus India Foundation: Uses sports and livelihoods training to move children out of poverty in Indian slums and villages. Overlaps with GPM's combined education-plus-livelihoods approach for the same vulnerable child demographic.
• CRY (Child Rights and You): Indian child rights nonprofit focused on education, health, and nutrition for underprivileged children. Directly comparable target beneficiary population and integrated development approach.
• Smile Foundation: Operates multi-pillar programs (education, health, livelihoods) for underprivileged children across India. Closely mirrors GPM's four-pillar model and donor-funded nonprofit structure.
• Naandi Foundation: Indian foundation running large-scale education, nutrition, and skilling programs for underserved children and women. Similar multi-pillar community development approach to GPM.
• Mumbai Mobile Creches: Provides daycare, education, nutrition, and health services to children of migrant laborers in Mumbai construction sites. Closest geographic and beneficiary overlap with GPM's Kalwa slum work.
• IsraAID: Israeli-based humanitarian organization with documented partnership with GPM via Operation CoVER COVID response. Operates similar multi-pillar relief and community development programming in vulnerable geographies.

Broad incumbents

• American India Foundation: Large US-India diaspora-affiliated foundation funding education, health, and livelihoods across India. Comparable US-501(c)(3) donor infrastructure and India program delivery model.
• Habitat for Humanity India: Large international NGO operating in India across housing-adjacent community development. Shares international donor pipeline and volunteer-based delivery model despite housing sector focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/GabrielPMumbai
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC-1PVt_87K33vVpmaa3dquA
• Facebookfacebook.com/GabrielProjectMumbai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gabriel-project-mumbai

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Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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