Deadline: 31-May-24
The Azim Premji Foundation is inviting grant applications from early-stage, not-for-profit organisations to foster vibrancy in the Civil Society ecosystem, enabling new people with new ideas, who are keen to contribute towards addressing the socio-economic development challenges of the most vulnerable and marginalised communities.
They intend to support those who have recently set up organisations that work directly with vulnerable or marginalised communities in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttarakhand, and districts in northeast Karnataka (Bagalakote, Ballari, Bidar, Kalaburagi, Koppala, Raichur, Vijayapura, Vijayanagar and Yadgir).
The focus is on aiding early-stage organisations, registered on or after 1 March 2019, with small grants. This is the stage when organisations usually struggle to find financial support, limiting the possibility of innovation and new energy. This support will enable them to experiment, refine intervention design and plans, demonstrate early effects in the lives of people, and strengthen their organisational and financial systems and processes.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations that meet the below criteria are eligible to apply:
- Are registered as a Society/Trust/Section 8 company on or after 1 March 2019 (zero to 5 years since registration).
- Have valid 12A.
- Have an average annual expenditure of INR 25 lakh or less.
- Have direct engagement with a vulnerable or marginalised community.
- Do not work directly in education or health (for example, running schools or coaching centres for children of vulnerable communities, running health centres in interior or backward areas). These are areas of work they do not support.
- Are not a social enterprise.
- Are not existing or past partners of the Foundation or already under consideration for a grant.
For more information, visit Azim Premji Foundation.