15th Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award-India 2024

The award is given with the objective of recognizing promising and successful social entrepreneurs, with excellence in large-scale, system change models. The social entrepreneurs are one of the key enablers of inclusive growth who implement practical and sustainable solutions to address challenges in numerous areas including health, education, and environment, access to technology and job creation.

Award Benefits

• Exclusive Benefit:
  • WINNER OF SEOY India will get an opportunity to apply for the Hindustan Times Fellowship for Stanford Seed Transformation programme.
  • SEOY Awardee will be announced at the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit in September 2020 and participate in a three-year structured programme to help them scale their solutions to collectively reach millions of people worldwide
• Three-Year Programme Core Benefits:
  • Access to the world’s most influential network: Awardees will have the opportunity to connect with key partners at Forum regional and global summits, and on the digital platform TopLink, to learn sector-specific best practices and scale their solution through partnerships.
  • Capacity building: They build the leadership capacity of awardees by strengthening their organisational and business strategies through executive education programmes at top universities, practitioner-oriented research, and curated programming at global and regional meetings.
  • Global media exposure: They showcase awardees’ solutions to the highest level of decision-makers through award ceremonies, media campaigns, videos and speaking roles.
  • Community-based support: They create spaces for reflection and peer-to-peer mentoring to equip awardees with the support systems to lead their organisation and drive trust-based collaborations.
  • Personalized engagement: Throughout the three year program, the  staff proactively ensures that awardees’ engagements with the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum are well aligned with their short and long term goals.

Selection Criteria

• Market-based: leverages market forces, strategic partnerships, and business practices wherever possible, e.g. charges fees for products or services or for some subset of them.
• Tech-enabled: Uses technology to create, communicate, deliver, or monitor the adoption of its products or services.
• Demonstrated Impact: beyond proof of concept; has a monitoring and evaluation system in place; can provide compelling impact metrics
• Scalability/ Potential to scale: has the potential to be successfully expanded nationally or internationally, either by branch expansion or via replication partners.
• Candidate as an Ambassador: able to interact on a peer-to-peer level with top business and political leaders and willing to contribute time and expertise to building the global community.

For more information, visit Jubilant Bhartia Foundation.