{"id":1046831,"date":"2026-11-04T07:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046831"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:57:06","slug":"azim-premji-foundation-launches-social-startups-programme-to-build-grassroots-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/04\/azim-premji-foundation-launches-social-startups-programme-to-build-grassroots-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"Azim Premji Foundation launches Social Startups Programme to build grassroots NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The Azim Premji Foundation has launched a Social Startups Programme to support development sector professionals in setting up and leading civil society organisations focused on underserved communities. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative seeks to address a key gap in the social sector where many professionals have extensive experience working with communities but often lack the financial backing, mentorship and institutional support needed to start their own organisations, the Foundation said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The Azim Premji Foundation has launched a Social Startups Programme to support development sector professionals in setting up and leading civil society organisations focused on underserved communities. The initiative seeks to address a key gap in the social sector where many professionals have extensive experience working with communities but often lack the financial backing, mentorship and institutional support needed to start their own organisations, the Foundation said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046853,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046831\/revisions\/1046853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}