JSW Foundation Fellowship was born out of the conviction that young Indians today have immense leadership potential and the power to transform the world around them. With the right training and mentorship, this potential can be nurtured and youth can be equipped to become changemakers at the grassroots level.
The programme is spearheaded by JSW Foundation and iVolunteer.
JSW Foundation is the social development arm of the US$ 13 billion JSW Group, one of India’s leading business houses. It has a long track record and a rich legacy of empowering rural communities to enrich their lives since the last three decades. JSW Foundation’s holistic life-cycle based interventions have positively impacted more than a million underprivileged people across India. Through a strong field presence, it operates across 22 rural locations in 11 Indian States with priority on communities around JSW’s plant & port locations.
The Foundation’s core focus areas include Education, Health & Nutrition, Skill Development & Livelihoods, Agri-Livelihoods, Water, Environment & Sanitation, Sports, Rural Development and Art & Heritage.
iVolunteer is a social enterprise that promotes volunteering with the mission to bring volunteers and organisations together to share time, skills & passion to promote India’s social development. India’s first and largest volunteering organisation, iVolunteer has been working 12 social development areas since the last two decades, namely: Education, Poverty Alleviation, Environment, Health, HIV-AIDS, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Disability, Youth Welfare, Elderly Welfare, Child Welfare & Active Citizenship.
iVolunteer maximises social impact in India by leveraging corporate philanthropy, CSR and global sustainability initiatives.