Are you an NGO or Trust?
Yes, we are an NGO or Trust, Vinayaga Trust is a trust registered as Charitable Trust act 1961, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The Vinayaga Trust executed at Chennai 12th day (Vivekananda’s Birthday) of January 2012 by T.K.P ASOKAN. The main objective of the trust is to save the poor people, educating poor children and providing shelter and food to the Old aged people and poor people. * We render Philanthropic, Educational and Charitable Services to the public in General and particularly to persons who are living in villages and who suffer from social and economic backwardness without discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, religion, society or sex. * Poor people’s basic necessities will be full filled and take to streamline their life style.

What is Vinayaga Trust?
Vinayaga Trust is a Charitable Trust, fully worked as Not for Profit as an Organisation. Vinayaga Trust is a non-profitable organisation located in Chennai. Our mission is to focus on poor people who are struggling in their life to overcome their basic needs. We are undertaking useful interventions such as counselling, training, vocational skill building, school enrolment, and micro enterprise for poor children and people. Our ultimate aim is to provide medical aids to people who are affected due to tuberculosis and AIDS. Symptomatic viral, bacterial, allergic and other non-communicable diseases. Helping old aged people by giving shelter and foods for them. The information is frequently updated because it puts the power in the hands of NGOs to manage our Services to the People is one place to find everything about Vinayaga Trust in India.

Who is the Founder of Vinayaga Trust?
Vinayaga Trust is Founded by Mr. T K P Asokan, B. Sc., B. Pharm., East Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Vinayaga Trust India is secular, not-for-profit organization registered under the Societies’ Registration Act of 1860. We were set up in 2012, and since then have been raising resources to protect the rights of India’s elderly and provide relief to them through various interventions. We voice the needs of India’s 90 million (current estimate) “grey” population, and directly impact the lives of lakhs of elders through our services every year. * We help the people become aware of their own rights so that they get their due and are able to play an active role in society. * We provide, organize, promote, maintain, manage and render charitable and benevolent service and all other ancillary services to the poor, the sick, the distressed, the destitute, the old, the orphan, the homeless, the disabled, the refugees and victims of civil disturbances, riot, famine, earthquake, flood, fire, pestilence, epidemic and other natural calamities.

How are you connected with Vinayaga Trust?
“The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one’s existence, to have a good heart. Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.” For more details, visit: https://www.vinayagatrust.com.

Who funds Vinayaga Trust?
The initial support is from Mr. T K P Asokan his own and his business Profit. Vinayaga Trust also takes up NGO and as Charitable Trust get small from his friends and well-wishers and known people around Trust outreach and database projects for other foundations, corporate and institutional users for which it receives project funding.

Who are your users?
Individuals (donors, volunteers, career seekers in the voluntary sector) Corporates (CSR teams, service providers to NGOs) Foundations & Grant-makers Policy makers, Government & Researchers NGOs NGO networks, advocacy & capacity building organisations, intermediaries in the voluntary sector Media. * We provide, organize, promote, maintain, manage and render charitable and benevolent service and all other ancillary services to the poor, the sick, the distressed, the destitute, the old, the orphan, the homeless, the disabled, the refugees and victims of civil disturbances, riot, famine, earthquake, flood, fire, pestilence, epidemic and other natural calamities. * We render Philanthropic, Educational and Charitable Services to the public in General and particularly to persons who are living in villages and who suffer from social and economic backwardness without discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, religion, society or sex. * Poor people’s basic necessities will be full filled and take to streamline their life style. We conduct free medical camps with the supply of free medicine and medical aids in the unreached areas.

How will Vinayaga Trust be helpful to its users?
Different users can find Vinayaga Trust helpful in the following ways:
a) People seeking to volunteer their time or donate money/ clothes & other items, can search for NGOs in need in their area. People who seek support for medical treatment or want to refer affected people/animals, etc can find NGOs who could support them.
b) Donors and volunteers can more easily identify NGOs working in areas of interest to them.
c) NGOs themselves can use GuideStar India data to showcase their work and voice their needs. Also, the NGOs who provide services to other NGOs like capacity building, advocacy etc. can increase their reach. NGOs improve their own understanding of the work of other organisations in their field. Our site provides NGOs with a great web presence leading to much wider public recognition than they can achieve alone.
d) Those who provide services to NGO, such as banks, communication & IT support, etc. can use the data on our site to provide tailor made options to NGOs.
e) Government departments and agencies can track reports uploaded by NGOs, identify underserved areas to inform policy decisions, identify NGOs that can partner with government to implement programmes. We encourage NGOs to register on the Planning Commission’s NGO Partnership System as well as quote the unique identity number allotted by the Planning Commission. This enables pooling information from both sites for further use by government.

How are you different from other databases?
Our website is more detailed than any other database provider about registered NGOs in the country. GuideStar India has aimed itself to be the first place to search information on NGOs. Our Advanced Search engine is the first of its type in the country. This meets the needs of a wide range of users. We make focused efforts to make sure that maximum information is updated on our site. There is a facility of “Report Error ” on every page of our site which makes it easy for the users. Our innovative search engine guides the users to search an NGO by keywords, location and its size. We work closely with our partner NGOs. The registration form is easy to fill and NGOs themselves can update their work on our portal. There is a flexibility to fill in as little to as much as the NGO desires to share. Vinayaga Trust incentivises the NGOs to update their work because the ranking of search result is based on how recent and how comprehensive is the information provided by them.

What benefits does an NGO or Trust featured on Vinayaga Trust gets?
•Your pages on Vinayaga Trust are like a free website which you can manage yourself! If you already have a website, you can also link your page(s) on www.vinayagatrust.com to your own website.
•You can see directly updated our information at your convenience. It is as simple as filling the online railway reservation form.
•You are uploading our Annual Report, Audited Accounts, statutory returns, logo and pictures.
•You can put up your needs to reach donors and volunteers worldwide.
•You can access information about grant-makers.
•You may not have to re-submit the same information to multiple agencies.

How you benefit as a Donor, Grant’s maker, Volunteer, Researcher, Policy maker or Supporter of NGOs or Trust?
•Vinayaga Trust has a powerful search engine that lets you search for NGOs by name/cause/location/size/needs/ keywords, etc. using our Advanced Search.
•You can shortlist a Best NGO or Trust, using your criteria, from a large set of NGOs or Trusts before you contact them for details, saving you a lot of time and energy in reaching out to NGOs or Trusts and processing application.
•You can use our platform to showcase NGOs or Trust you support and give them access to a wider resource group.
•You can avail of our customised services for your NGO or Trust centric activities, use our newsletter & targeted mailing services to reach NGOs or Trusts or get relevant datasets of NGOs or Trusts.

How do corporates benefit from your site?
Corporates can use our portal for their CSR, to search for potential grantees, to get their grantees to showcase their work and thus broad base their reach to other donors. Vinayaga Trust has a powerful search engine that lets you search for NGOs or Trust by name/cause/location/size/needs/ keywords. You can shortlist, using your criteria, from a large set of NGOs or Trusts before you contact them for details. You can use our platform to showcase NGOs or Trusts you support and give them access to a wider resource group. You can avail of our customised services for your NGO or Trust centric activities use our newsletter & targeted mailing services to reach NGOs or Trust or get relevant datasets of NGOs or Trusts.

How is the government benefitted from your site?
We promote the use of Planning Commission’s NGO or Trust Partnership System. Provide ready access to NGO or Trust filings (ITR, FC returns, and annual returns to Charity Commissioner/ Registrar). Give datasets for macro aggregates. Support trend analyses of NGO or Trust performance. Enable sector wise gap identification.

How are you different from other NGO or Trust sites?
We are not a giving site. We only provide information which helps people to make informed giving decisions. Some of the NGOs or Trusts on our site are also listed on any other sites and they would have mentioned the same under “Memberships & Associations”, while some of the NGOs or Trusts would have the pages on their sites which they would have mentioned in their “Needs” section. NGOs or trusts that have payment gateways on their website would have stated the URL on their respective page.

What do you do with NGO or Trust data?
Vinayaga Trust collects and organises the NGO or Trust data provided to it and displays it on the website in such a manner that the users can easily find what they are looking for. Currently all information is available free of cost to all the users. However, where users require specific data about a set of NGOs or Trusts meeting their criteria, we provide it to them against a small contribution towards our expenses.

Why should I use only Vinayaga Trust?
Vinayaga Trust gives you a powerful and “Advanced search” facility to quickly get information about NGO or Trust that you are looking for. It would be the first place to look for NGOs or Trusts but is not the only place, as we provide links to other useful sites and resources. * We provide, organize, promote, maintain, manage and render charitable and benevolent service and all other ancillary services to the poor, the sick, the distressed, the destitute, the old, the orphan, the homeless, the disabled, the refugees and victims of civil disturbances, riot, famine, earthquake, flood, fire, pestilence, epidemic and other natural calamities. * We render Philanthropic, Educational and Charitable Services to the public in General and particularly to persons who are living in villages and who suffer from social and economic backwardness without discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, religion, society or sex. * Poor people’s basic necessities will be full filled and take to streamline their life style.

Are there other Vinayaga Trust systems being developed?
Vinayaga Trust is Founded by Mr. T K P Asokan, B. Sc., B. Pharm., East Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Vinayaga Trust is Fully motivated to development of Peoples of India Only. For more information, visit: https://www.vinayagatrust.com.

Who audits Vinayaga Trust’s accounts?
KARIKALAN &CO
(Charted Accountants)
No.1, 2nd Cross, 6th Street,
Dr. Subburayan Nagar, Kodambakkam, Chennai – 600024.

Where we can get Vinayaga Trust’s information?
All information displayed on Vinayaga Trust is filed directly by the NGO or Trust 0urselves which we enter online. In addition to it, Vinayaga Trust brings together existing information that is already in the public domain from reliable sources. We also obtain data from Foundations, non-profit intermediaries, networks and other ideas already did. We have a policy of obtaining data ethically. Anyone can verify whether an organisation is registered in India as a Society/ Trust/Sec 25 company and we verify its physical existence.

How latest is the information displayed on Vinayaga Trust?
Our data sourcing started in June 2017. Some of the information provided on our portal is as recent as yesterday and is an on-going process. We undertake a variety of activities to motivate NGOs or Trust to update our information. Our search results are ranked on the updating of data and the volume of information input by as NGO or Trust. To render Philanthropic, Educational and Charitable Services to the public in General and particularly to persons who are living in villages.

Why is it that not all NGOs or Trusts have provided all types of information?
Vinayaga Trust is an NGO or Trust registered in India. We recognise that not all NGOs or Trusts would have the time or resources to input all fields of information at one go. Hence the site allows NGOs or Trust to input information section wise. The site motivates NGOs or Trusts to report by ranking search results on the amount of information reported and date of updating. We leave it to users to base their decisions on what the type of information they value the most. Vinayaga Trust is a non-profitable organisation located in Chennai. Our mission is to focus on poor people who are struggling in their life to overcome their basic needs. We are undertaking useful interventions such as counselling, training, vocational skill building, school enrolment, and micro enterprise for poor children and people.
Our ultimate aim is to provide medical aids to people who are affected due to tuberculosis and AIDS, Symptomatic viral, bacterial, allergic and other non-communicable diseases. Helping old aged people by giving shelter and foods for them.

How does Vinayaga Trust manage to keep its costs low?
We are fortunate to attract professionals who work for us at nearly a third of their market value. We also have volunteers who support our work. We get our technology support from India and International at a low cost as some of the development costs are shared across all Vinayaga Trust. We also negotiate very hard with all our vendors and seriously review our expenses every month.

Does Vinayaga Trust publish its Annual Report?
Yes, Vinayaga Trust will be publishing its Annual Report each year wherein you will find our financial statements and our year-round activities as well. By October of every year, our Annual Report will be available on the site.

How can we feel this Vinayaga Trust?
“The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one’s existence, to have a good heart. Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”