Jubilant Bhartia Foundation

Choosing the right route

• For a social enterprise with a large-scale, system-change model, the SEOY award is the route the site describes. Read its criteria before you apply: market-based models, tech-enabled delivery, demonstrated impact with a monitoring and evaluation system, potential to scale, and the ability to act as an ambassador.
• For a social start-up that addresses the Sustainable Development Goals, BHARAT IMPACT is the incubation centre. Its pages do not say how to apply.
• The Muskaan Fellowship, Project Muskaan and JubiFarm are the foundation's own project programmes. The site does not describe a route in for founders.

How applications work

• The SEOY application process starts every year in March.
• The 17th award was announced on August 21, 2026. Check the award pages for the current round before you apply.

How selection works

• The award pages set out the criteria, but they do not describe the steps of the selection.
• BHARAT IMPACT and the Muskaan Fellowship do not publish their selection steps.

What reviewers look for

• Evidence of impact, with a monitoring and evaluation system in place.
• A model that can scale, and that uses technology and market forces where it can.

Jubilant Bhartia Foundation (JBF) is the not-for-profit organisation of the Jubilant Bhartia Group, established in 2007 by the Group. It conceives and runs the Group's corporate social responsibility work, from community development and healthcare to education, livelihoods and social entrepreneurship. Its corporate office is in Sector 16A, Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Programmes for social entrepreneurs

The foundation's best-known route for founders is the Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) India Award. It is run jointly with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organisation of the World Economic Forum. The award recognises promising and successful social entrepreneurs with excellence in large-scale, system-change models. The application process starts every year in March, and the 17th award was announced on August 21, 2026.

The award looks at a set of tests. The model should be market-based, using market forces and business practices where possible, and it should be tech-enabled, using technology to create, deliver or monitor its products or services. The work should show demonstrated impact, beyond proof of concept, with a monitoring and evaluation system in place. It should have potential to scale nationally or internationally. The candidate should also be able to act as an ambassador, speaking peer to peer with business and political leaders.

Winners are given access to the World Economic Forum network, including its digital platform TopLink. The award describes capacity building through executive education, global media exposure through ceremonies and campaigns, and a three-year structured programme to help winners scale their solutions. Winners also get an opportunity to apply for the Hindustan Times Fellowship for the Stanford Seed Transformation programme.

BHARAT IMPACT, the Jubilant Bhartia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, is the foundation's incubation centre for social start-ups. Its pages describe it as fostering start-ups that address the Sustainable Development Goals, and they also describe support for micro-enterprises, so the audience is stated in two ways. It offers mentorship, workshops on business development, fundraising, marketing and social impact measurement, networking with investors and other social entrepreneurs, and help with impact measurement. It also offers access to office space and technology. The pages do not state an application route or an intake date.

Youth and education work

The Muskaan Fellowship is a youth leadership-training programme for rural youth. It focuses on sensitising young people to community issues, and it gives them an experiential learning journey with experts and mentors. The fellowship also aims to help young people decide their career goals, and to improve the academic ability of students in government primary schools. Its first cohort had 25 youths from five states, who trained for 5 days.

Project Muskaan was introduced in 2007 to support government initiatives in primary education. It works with rural government primary schools near the Group's manufacturing locations, and the page says it reaches 11000 students.

The foundation also runs the Jubilant Pratibha Puraskar scholarship programme. It selects talented students through a scholarship test and pays a monthly scholarship so they can continue their education. For students at Muskaan schools, the foundation partnered with iDream Social Edtech Foundation to offer free digital learning content in local languages through the iDream Learning App.

Healthcare and livelihoods

Jubilant Bhartia Foundation conceptualised and developed JubiCare, a telemedicine application. It provides real-time consultations between patients and doctors by text, audio or video.

JubiFarm is a sustainable farming initiative for farmers, including migrants returning to their native places. Its first phase focuses on agroforestry and horticulture, and it plans to select 1000 interested farmers across the Group's plant locations.

Scale

The foundation's press releases say it reaches over 2 million beneficiaries through community-focused interventions. These are the foundation's own figures, and the pages do not date them.

Who can apply

The SEOY award is open to social entrepreneurs who meet its criteria. BHARAT IMPACT is aimed at social start-ups that address the Sustainable Development Goals. The school, health and farming programmes are run by the foundation for its own project areas, and the site does not describe them as open applications.